Two Weddings

Chief and I watched two weddings tonight. “Why kaya?” asks Chief.

In an episode of “The new adventures of old Christine” Christine’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) ex-boyfriend gets married. But during the toast, he mentions Christine’s name. Photo of Julia Louis-Dreyfus by Sheryl Nields/CBS Broadcasting Inc.

In an episode of “Will and Grace” Grace played by Debra Messing gets married to Leo (played by Harry Connick, Jr.) It is Will (Eric McCormack) who walks down the aisle and says to Leo, “Take care of my friend.” Cast photo courtesy of NBC.

“Why kaya?” I now also ask myself.

I was telling Chief that I was thinking of getting the DVD box set of “Will and Grace” when I was in Hanoi last month. “Why didn’t you get it?” says Chief.

The series was originally broadcast from 1998 to 2006 and takes place in New York City. It was nominated for 83 and won 16 Emmys.

Maybe, it is because on the 5th of November, Chief and I would celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary? Maybe.

Boston Public "Gone" Episode

Last Wednesday night, Chief and I had watched “Boston Legal.” We really wanted to sleep early and there was nothing really good on TV until the opening credits of “Boston Legal.”

I only had watched a few episodes of this series, which had started as a spin-off from “The Practice” while we were still based in Vietnam in 2004.

What was important to learn in this episode was how Allan Shore (James Spade) chose friendship over his own principles. He valued his friendship with Denny Crane (William Shatner), who had been subject of a lawsuit from an indigent, named Kirk (after Shatner’s own character n Star Trek) he had shot with a paint-gun. Spade agreed to take on the case as a way to settle with the indigent for the amount of 75,000 dollars.

In a parallel story, Denise Bauer (with photo)
and Brad Chase (Mark Valley), two other lawyers of the firm, Crane, Poole & Schmidt. pretend to be FBI agents to the extent of violating the law to rescue the son of her maid who had been kidnapped by a pedophile. This pedophile had been hiding and only maintains contact with the priest.

Julie Bowen was born on March 3, 1970… and celebrates her birthday after Chief’s own birthday).

Chief was surprised at one scene, when Brad with an ax in hand, accidentally, cuts of three fingers of the priest, who had prevented the lawyers from entering his office.

At the end of the episode, Spade talks about the 27 million poor Americans who might one day decide to fight back against the rich like Denny Crane.

Meanwhile, the priest gets his missing finger back and points to the location where the pedophile is hiding. The boy is rescued.

But on the teaser for the next episode, Brad is on trial.

Guess, we will watch that episode.

Photo courtesy of Boston Public cast and Julie Bowen from www.tvguide.com (by Scott Garfield / ABC)

Homer and Bart

I really haven't watched an episode of "The Simpsons" in a long time. But last Tuesday, I really needed some time for myself, away from home. I really needed a good laugh. So, after doing some work at McCafe in Greenbelt 1, I watched "The Simpsons Movie."

While the movie takes a crack on environment issues, spinning-off "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore into "An Irritating Truth" with Lisa Simpson. Funny, by coincidence, I was doing an article on the environment and interviewed Secretary Angelo Reyes himself a few days ago. But that is another blog.

This blog is about parenthood and I would like to talk about Bart and Homer Simpson's relationship.