At any rate, we recently saw The Heat with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. These two have a magical chemistry that would only make the worst writing look bad. Meanwhile, this was a very funny movie, but it was based on a previously successful formula that used male cops instead of female. There is no doubt that a sequel will follow.
With all the bad press and poor performance at the box office, one would expect White House Down to be a bad movie. I did not find it so. The storyline is well performed by (never can do bad) James Wood and a very chemical partnership of Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum. The action was great and it was believable, although not probable.
We Are But Dust
A visiting minister at the start of the offertory prayer:
"Dear Lord," he began with arms extended and a rapturous look on his upturned face, "without you we are but dust..."
He would have continued, but at that moment one very obedient little girl (who was listening carefully) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice:
"Mommy, what is butt dust?"
Church was pretty much over at that point.
Getting Dressed
Hospital regulations required a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman - already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet - who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
"I don't know," he said. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown."
