Club Events 2006 : 2006-05-13 : COC - Anniversary Picnic and BBQ and CCC - Steve Martin Movie Nite at Joel's

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CCC - Steve Martin Movie Nite at Joel's

We'll start the evening with the best ever (in Rhonda's opinion) Steve Martin movie - The Jerk.

In "The Jerk," Martin plays the protagonist, Navin Johnson, who has been brought up by sharecroppers. After his foster father explains to him the difference between horse manure and shoe polish, Navin sets out on his own to find his destiny and has a series of adventures. The movie doesn't have much of a plot, and I would characterize its narrative structure as episodic.

On his journey, Navin takes any job he can get, and for a while, he works at a carnival. ("For one dollar, I'll guess your weight, your height, or your sex.") He gets into a sexual relationship with a dominatrix-like motorcycle daredevil (Catlin Adams), who has his name tattooed among many others on her derriere. But he finds the love of his life when he meets the cosmetologist Marie (Bernadette Peters).

One day while Navin is working at a gas station, a customer has trouble with his spectacles slipping down and curses, "Damn these glasses." Mistakenly believing the customer to be using the imperative mood, Navin intones at the eyeglasses, "I damn thee!" But this turns out to be a fortuitous encounter for Navin because it leads him to invent a glasses handle called the Opti-Grab that eventually makes him a millionaire.

Followed up with the second-best (in Rhonda's opinion) Steve Martin movie, The Lonely Guy:

It's a hard life being lonely in New York City. After Larry (Steve Martin) loses his latest girlfriend, Warren (Charles Grodin), a sad sack singleton, tries to teach him how to talk to the ferns in his apartment and to liven up a party with cardboard cutouts of celebrities. In two of the funniest scenes in the film, Larry joins the hundred of other lonely guys who stand on building rooftops and cry out for the women they have lost. In the second, Larry finds himself on the Manhattan Bridge where those moles bereft of hope leap off into the river below.

Make a plan for how to get home after. If you're going to be drinking very much, no driving! You can bring a sleeping bag if you want, there's lots of room.


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