Episode 2: Curious George

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The Dude on the Right


I can’t believe that we actually got a second episode done for "Stu & The Dude
Reviewin’ the Movies for You!", but here it is.  This time "Curious George"
comes under the chopping block, and I think the difference is that Stu has kids
so he can relate, and I don’t, so I don’t even want to see this movie. 
Then, of course, there is Stu’s appetite.  If you’ve got kids, well, follow
Stu’s lead, just please don’t follow his dietary plan before going to see the
movie!

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up: Animation, a Bachelor Party, and “Dancing with the Stars.”

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The Dude on the Right


My weekend was mostly about animating for our next "Stu
& The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You!
" but for this episode we discuss a
couple of things.  There’s some talk about my boring weekend, an upcoming
contest where you might get a chance to win cool stuff, and Stu’s bachelor party
weekend that didn’t turn out as cool as it sounded on paper.  Stu’s also
getting old, and I also talk about not having some TV shows to watch anymore,
namely "Dancing
with the Stars
" and the Olympics, but damn "American
Idol
," it’s now on three times a week and is really messing with my Thursday
night TV viewing.

Thanks for listening and reading, and as always I welcome your comments.

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At Least “Dancing with the Stars” and the Olympics are Over. Damn You “American Idol.”

By:

The Dude on the Right

I know I always promise that new stuff is coming soon, so I won’t promise
anymore, just say I’m working on it.  In the meantime I wanted to get
something new posted, so for tonight I hope you’ll just be okay with this blog
entry.  I’m trying to get it done before the finale of "Dancing
With the Stars
" and the
Olympics Closing
Ceremonies
, which, thankfully, are the end to much of my diversion lately.

From my last blog, you know that I developed a thing for Cassie Johnson of the
USA Women’s Curling Team.  Sadly they got eliminated from any medal
contention, and I didn’t even get a chance to catch another match due to some
traveling.  For my stalking, I’ll just have to remember to set the one,
TiVo’d match on "Do Not Ever Delete Until I Tell you So you TiVo Machine." 
Sadly, I won’t be able to offer her a job, because I didn’t win the

Powerball jackpot,
although there is still a chance right now on the
Mega Million’s side. 
Maybe I’ll still be able to offer Cassie a job.  All I know is that I’m
happy the Olympics are done, because, well, the United States folks, other than
a few, didn’t come off too well.  I could go into it, but why?  It’s
over, done, and even with the winners we will mostly remember a few stories,
like the snowboarder dudette who lost the gold medal, the
skier dude who should now
forever remain nameless, and the speed skater dudes who had such potential to be
world class, but, well, lost that when they opened their mouths, and they even
won gold medals.  Oh well, it’s over, and so almost is another show…

That show, "Dancing With the Stars," where

Lisa Rinna
got screwed.  Nothing against you,

Jerry Rice
, but she was so much better.  I probably won’t watch the
entire show, especially since it’s two hours long and up against the Olympic
closing ceremony.  Right now I just want to see if Drew or Stacy win. 
My vote is for Drew, even though Stacy is smokin’ hot, because Stacy had a lot
of previous dance experience, and Drew was only in 98 Degrees.

As far as new
stuff coming to the website, tomorrow should bring a new
podcast of
"Stu and The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up," and I’m putting the finishing touches on
our next episode of "Stu
& The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You!
", that being a review of "Curious
George."  If all goes well, that should be posted tomorrow night as well,
at worst, hopefully, on Tuesday.  I’ve also got a ton of movie previews I’m
typing up, still need to write a review of "Date Movie" even though Stu and I
discussed it at length during

one of our podcasts
.  I’m also looking to get back to some concert
reviewin’ in mid-March, so hopefully that will work out as well.

Well,
"Dancing With the Stars" is coming on soon, so I’ll wrap this up. 
Thankfully my TV viewing gets almost back to normal next week, but dammit, "American
Idol
" people, I’m finding it really hard to keep with people for three
nights.  I’ve got too many other shows to watch.  Damn.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up: The movie “Date Movie” enters a Stu Gotz Hall of Fame.

By:

The Dude on the Right


Well I’m back from my trip to the old country, but both Stu and I got a chance
to see "Date Movie"
for this Weekend Wrap-Up.  I thought the movie, as a movie, pretty much
sucked, but because I am easily amused, I still laughed a lot.  Stu, on the
other hand, put "Date Movie" into a Hall of Fame of which only three other
movies had been enshrined.  And no, that Hall of Fame is not the "Movies
That Get Zero Stars" Hall of Fame, this is something different.  There is
also some talk about how I’m a bad uncle (maybe there is a movie there, kinda
like "Bad
Santa
") but I’m guessing my sister, and definitely my niece, are happier for
it, at least this time.

Thanks for listening and reading, and as always I welcome your comments.

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Women’s Curling, It’s Fantastic!

By:

The Dude on the Right

As I was on the phone with my accountant, Dewey, of the firm Dewey, Cheatem, &
Howe, I started telling Dewey how I was getting sucked into the Olympic coverage
of Curling.  Yea, that’s right, the Olympic sport where they slide this big
boulder rock things down the ice, kinda like shuffleboard without the stick, and
use brooms to help direct/speed-up/slow-down the rock, hoping to either bounce
the opposing teams rocks out of the way, or get your rock in either a blocking
position or in a position to score.  Stu Gotz was in the office at the time
and immediately started to bust my balls, professing how he was totally into the
Women’s Speed Skating, with the women in those skin-tight outfits, while there I
was, watching dudes slide a stone.  Dewey, of course, heard this, and
started busting my balls as well, but then, after hanging up the phone on Dewey
in mid-insult, I reminded Stu that he loved the movie "Curious George." 
With that, he backed down a tad.

Anyway, as for my fascination with curling,
it really began with the Winter Olympic coverage four years ago.  Me, I’m
the kind of guy who can just sit in front of the TV on a Sunday afternoon and
watch a full round of golf, so why not be fascinated with curling? This year,
though, I was reading the paper yesterday and saw they had coverage of the men’s
curling on CNBC.  I changed the channel and quickly became totally
fascinated by the audio of the event that will hopefully make it into a podcast
next week.  Yup, I was sucked in.  But then came the woman’s event
today, with the Team USA dudettes playing the dudettes of Denmark.  As the
audio still intrigued me, suddenly I was in love, as I am a sucker for a dudette
with blondish hair, blue eyes, and a killer smile, staring down a big ol’ rock and yelling/telling her teammates where it really needs to end up .  My next person to
stalk, I mean, to admire from afar, is team skip,

Cassie Johnson
.  I’ll just say I was mesmerized, and totally 
disappointed when that last rock hit some debris thing on the ice that
misdirected it ever so slightly so that the Denmark dudettes won the round.

Sadly, the Team USA curling dudettes might be eliminated pretty soon, they
aren’t doing too well it seems, and that makes me sad.  I believe my last
chance to catch them might be this coming Monday, but there’s always a chance
they can go on a curling tear and I’ll be there every step of the way.  
As far as Stu, go ahead and stalk, I mean, admire from afar, those dudette speed
skaters.  Me, I’ve always had a thing for the girl next door look, and
Cassie has that.  And her sister is cute, too, but she’s engaged. 
Cassie has a degree in graphic design and I’d love to offer her a job to help us
with Stu & The Dude
Reviewin’ the Movies for You!
  It’s just too bad I couldn’t offer her
any money, and I’d probably be slapped with a sexual harrasment lawsuit.  Oh well, I guess I’ll just stalk, I mean, admire her from afar,
and hope the team does go on a curling tear.  Good luck ladies!  And
Cassie, if by some miracle I win the $365 million
Powerball this weekend,
there might be a job offer coming your way.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up: Blurting out loud, some movie talk, Busta Rhymes vs. Kansas, and Stu’s not happy with Michelle Kwan.

By:

The Dude on the Right


Stu’s back from his vacation so we’ve got a fresh edition of "Stu & The Dude’s
Weekend Wrap-up."  Stu explains his sudden vocal outburst on the flight
home, I give a quick rundown of the movies "The
Pink Panther
" and "Firewall,"
Stu wants to talk about Busta Rhymes and the band Kansas, and Stu’s really not
happy with
Michelle Kwan
.  For you Michelle Kwan lovers, feel free to comment
using our podcast blog comment below, or you can send all of your Stu hate mail
to stu_gotz@entertainmentavenue.com,
or use our
mail
form
.  Maybe you’ll change his mind, but I doubt it.

Thanks for listening and reading, and as always I welcome your comments.

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Confused About the Olympics, and Some Advice for NBC.

By:

The Dude on the Right

I’m getting really confused with the coverage of the
XX Winter
Olympics
. First, I talked a little bit about this in our last podcast, but
there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on exactly where the Olympics are being
held. First, if you go to
www.olympic.org
, they call it the "Torino 2006" games. Fine, they’re a world
body, and probably go with the language of the host nation, that being Italian
because, well, the Olympics are being held in Italy. The thing is that Torino is
an Italian pronunciation, and even on the web site, in their English
translation, they call them the "Turin Winter Games." That at my local paper,
and every other television station say they are in Turin.  But
NBC, who is broadcasting the
Winter Olympics, are sticking with "Torino," prompting one posting on a bulletin
board I occasionally read wondering why, if NBC is content on calling Turin,
well, Turino, for this kind of news, why aren’t they calling Rome, well, Roma,
or Florence, umm, Fiorenza. I know that the famous shroud is in Turin, and
wonder if NBC, if there is ever new news about the Shroud of Turin, well, if
they will know call it the Shroud of Turino? I’m so confused.

And that’s not
only thing confusing me about the Winter Olympics. The other has to do with the
wacky news coverage, especially on the NBC stations. I haven’t been able to pay
attention to the ABC or CBS coverage, at least when it comes to my local news,
to see if how/when/who they are spoiling the suspense of who/when/how won a
medal, but on both my local NBC newscast and the national NBC newscast here in
Chicago, this day being Sunday, they both had coverage of the Winter Olympics.
The easy story was

Michelle Kwan’s dropping out
, but then, wanting to at least give some real
news about what was going on, told their viewers that if they didn’t want to
"see" anything about the results as of the time of the newscast, to turn away
from the screen (don’t forget, the actual events happened over 12 hours ago, so
the nightly broadcast is a tape of what already happened), and that the audio
wouldn’t give away anything, but I couldn’t help but watch and figure out that
Apolo Anton Ohno must have screwed up because he wasn’t on the medal board NBC
flashed on the screen. Then, of course, I just went to the

NBC website
and found out for myself.

With their coverage, I think this is where NBC is really dropping the ball.
Instead of trying to "hide" the results with bad "we have spoilers, turn away if
you don’t want to know," they should just go all out and say things like "On
tonight’s coverage, you get to see how Apolo Anton Ohno didn’t get a medal, how
the U.S. skiers, including the controversial Bode Miller, didn’t get a medal,
but thank God for

Shaun White and Danny Kass
, a couple of snowboarders who knew how to get the
job done, getting the Gold and Silver respectively. We’ve got a slim chance at
getting a medal in the Luge, but you might just want to see if the "Babe Ruth of
Luge,"

Georg Hackl
of Germany, can pull it off. After all, they’re going down that
course at speeds over 70 miles per hour at times." In all honesty, those are the
only reasons I’m watching the NBC coverage of the Winter Olympics tonight, but
my problem is that the conclusion to last week’s "Grey’s
Anatomy
" conflicts with the Olympic coverage. I knew I should have ordered
that Comcast DVR. Guess I’ll be stuck with year’s old technology and
VCR "Grey’s
Anatomy" and TIVO
the Olympics, or maybe just the opposite. Damn, I hate T.V.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Our first episode: Underworld: Evolution

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The Dude on the Right


Here it is, our first episode of "Stu and The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for
You!"  It’s our reviews of "Underworld: Evolution" with Kate Beckinsale,
and Stu thought it was a tad better than I did.  Too bad for Stu. 
Stu’s also got a potty-mouth at this time, so it’s got some f-bombs and an
s-word or two, so be careful if you watch it at work.

Thanks for watching, and we welcome your comments.

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Time is Relative, The Olympics, “Annapolis,” and “Firewall.”

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The Dude on the Right


I’ve got to give much props and much love to my nephew for making me remember
that time is relative and that I’m not a loser as mentioned in my previous
podcast.  He made me realize that my original goal was to get the first
episode of "Stu and The Dude Reviewin’
the Movies for You!
" done by the end of January, which I associated with the
start of the Winter Olympics.  It turns out the
Winter Olympics didn’t
start until today, so I was really confused as to when the end of January was. 
With that, I got that first episode posted according to my goal, and that’s my
story and I’m sticking to it.  This podcast also deals with some Olympic
talk, and quick "should you go and see" the movies "Annapolis" or "Firewall."

Thanks for listening and reading, and as always I welcome your comments.

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The Dude on the Right Admits He’s a Loser and Finds Out That He’s an Addict.

By:

The Dude on the Right


In this podcast, I’m sure much to the joy of my nephew, niece, and sister, I
admit to my loserdom.  I also found out this morning that I’m an addict, so
I discuss a little of that, and thankfully "American Idol" finally gets to
Hollywood next week because I’m getting tired of the auditions, although there
was a highlight/lowlight from yesterday’s show that I spotlight.  I’m going
to try and pick myself up by my bootstraps and turn my frown upside down now,
but hopefully, by the end of the weekend, I’ll feel a little less like a loser
and have something brand new for all of you.

Thanks for listening and reading, and as always I welcome your comments.

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