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CINEMA SEEN - "Family Follies!" by Bill Margold The Burger King quartet of THE SIMPSONS dolls sits atop my living room window seemingly crying out for the missing member of their fantastically funny fractured family. Produced way back in 1990 when the Fox Television show was still very much in its infancy, I guess that it's appropriate that while Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa have secured positions in my apartment as well as in my mind, my heart and most importantly, my soul---it is Maggie, the perpetual pacifier sucking, earnestly crawling sub-consciousness of the family (and the show), who is missing from my collection. So, while this Cinema Seen column is a celebration of the wonderful THE SIMPSONS MOVIE...it is also performing the service of reaching out to those in my faithful reading audience who might know the whereabouts of a Maggie doll that I could obtain to complete my collection. Of course my gratitude would be eternal...and perhaps even profitable (or at least palatable) toward the person who could fulfill my need. In these overwhelmingly complicated technological daze...the best way to contact me is by e-mail (bmargold@aol.com) and then a meeting could be arranged at one of my favorite watering holes: The Yukon Mining Company for their glorious Roast Chicken on a Friday evening or right down the street from THE LAXPRESS offices at the delightfully refreshing Olimpus Juices for one of their exceptionally fresh blends of fruits and vegetables. Besides being richly deserving of an entire Cinema Seen page...THE SIMPSONS MOVIE is being accorded the special honor of being the back page of issue number 1000 of THE LAXPRESS. (And for almost all those issues, and virtually all the issues of THE HOLLYWOOD PRESS, the forefather of what you are holding in your hands today, I have had the distinct pleasure of providing my unique brand of motion picture insight since the late summer of 1972.) I purposely saved THE SIMPSONS MOVIE for this page because it is not only my favorite film of 2007 (so far)...it is my favorite film (so far) of the first decade of The 21st Century. And while I'm sure that your weary eyes are rolling back in your head like donuts in a slot machine, I must advise you that my favorite film of the final decade of The 20th Century was BABE. Hmm...I wonder if the presence of a pretty little porker in THE SIMPSONS MOVIE helped grease my affection for the film even more? (BTW: elsewhere in this issue, you should be able to find another entire page---courtesy of Wikipedia---devoted to the cultural tremors that Matt Groening's captivating creation has been able to mischievously rattle the sensibilities of viewers around the world.) Generously provided with artwork from THE SIMPSONS MOVIE by Hollywood Book & Poster Company, plus scrounging up a few pieces of art from various other sources, the toughest part of putting together this page was choosing the best images to illuminate my appreciation of the sharply crafted, timely smart, dare I say "profound" film as well as to proclaim my affection for it as one of my all-time favorite TV series. Another problem is that I've never been able to figure out whom I more closely identify with: the well meaning but always in over his very round head Homer or the ever-incorrigible Bart. But that's a situation I'll save to inspeculate when the inevitable follow-up to THE SIMPSONS MOVIE is released. end NOTE: Originally published in LA Xpress, September 27, 2007 issue. |