SAVED BY "FLINT"

On last Tuesday night, “IN LIKE FLINT” was just as much fun as Sharon and I had remembered it to be.  The late Jerry Goldsmith’s music was excellent, as always.  The film also saved us from watching the guy who lives in The White House, which kept my digestion and my blood pressure in the normal range and helped to guard against injury to the middle finger of my right hand. After “Derek Flint” had saved the world from a conspiracy involving a fake President and traitors who were out to control the world, we flipped over to FOX News.  Sadly, the guy who lives in The White House was still talking.  We got off that as quickly as possible and caught fifteen or twenty minutes of another film.  At last, when we turned once again to FOX News, there was a FOX News panel critiquing the Address – and being “fair and balanced,” I might add.  Then, as Sharon and I had hoped for, we caught the excellent Republican Response, delivered by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, former Director of The U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. The major point, as we understood it, is that the Republicans want to see America once again become a nation of “haves” and “soon-to-haves,” rather than a land where initiative is condemned, small business is beaten to death by never ending numbers of government regulations and the jobs situation in America does not improve.  Lots better than what the other guy said, I’m sure, and much easier on the stomach.  Have a nice day!  JERRY