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Show BIZARRO CLOSE TO HOME ctoMtohomtOniK.com - IIP " .1 I What blondes teach us about movies Barry Koltnow the movie. Anyway, this blond woman sitting a few seats away apparadvance screening of ently is a professional movie football watcher by trade, but an amateur movie watcher at heart. "Friday Night Lights" From the opening kickoff, was about to start when the she was so into the movie that perky blonde slipped into her' seat just a few feet from me. you might have thought that she was one of the film's proShe barely had settled in the seat when she whipped out her ducers. I didn't really think that she cell phone and made a call. Then she made another calL was a producer. Rather, I think talking loud enough for anyone she is one of those people who within three rows to hear. This really gets into the art of movie was the classic watching. And I applaud her for that. Well I would applaud her if I ever showed any emotioa moment. Miss Blondie laughed fitfully These empty-heade- d blondes at the funny parts, cried real (most of them TV journalists) can be so annoying. tears at the sad parts and literI give her some .credit for ally jumped out of her seat each folding her cell phone when the time one football player put an lights finally went down. I especially hard lick on another. She threw her hands up in hoped I had seen and heard the last of her. ' exasperation at a referee's bad But that's not how it turned call covered her mouth with her hand in shock when a faout, and I'm glad. She was the last person on ther did something horrible to Earth who I thought could teach his own son and cheered I kid you not when a player . me something, but she did. She scored a winning touchdowa taught me how to drop my inhibitions and really enjoy a movie. Normally, I make fun of people like this. "Friday Night Lights," which But I admired her for not behits theaters Oct. 8, is the true story of a determined but uning afraid to show such emodersized Texas high school tions in an industry screening, football team trying to capture knowing only too well that the room was full of professional the 1988 state championship. movie watchers, and that at Starring Billy Bob Thornton as least one of them might be so the coach and country singer underhanded as to observe her Tim McGraw as a father who berates and belittles his throughout the movie and then playing son. write a column about it. When the movie ended, I had It is an excellent film with a lot of heart. It also pulls no to wait to get by her while she . gathered her things and put her punches in depicting the violence of the sport. shoes on. She looked up and Now, I am a professional apologized, and I assured her that there was no rush. movie watcher. That means I But I couldn't resist saying ' don't emote when I watch a movie. something. I don't know why that is, but "You know, it's only a that's what happens when you movie," I said with a smile. She buried her head in her are a professional movie watchhands. "I know, I know," she er. It is not unlike the professaid. "I get too into these movies. sional comedian who can think This is so embarrassing." another comic is funny without She need not have been emactually laughing at his jokes. Oh, we professional movie barrassed, although I cannot watchers can love or hate a speak for the rest of the professional movie watchers in the movie as much as the amateur theater. To them, she may have movie watcher, but the difference is that an outsider never seemed like just another Hollywood blond acting badly in a knows whether a professional movie watcher is loving or hatscreening room. But not this time. I'm going ing a movie. Our expression never changes. to give Miss Blondie a pass. 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