When you are in the movie business (and have even acted in a movie, as Whitley and I have) it kind of spoils your movie going experience. You no longer enjoy films with the childlike wonder you used to bring to the theater with you. Instead, you see holes in the plot, deficiencies in the acting and even the set decoration, you notice the product placement, and all this gets in the way of having a good time.
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Whitley and I just had a week of amazing adventure: Doing a “cameo” on the set of a major motion picture.
It was a classic movie set, with security guards stationed everywhere and people of all races and colors walking around doing “ordinary” things, such as drinking coffee or talking on their cellphones, while dressed in outlandish “Star Trek”-type costumes, with huge purple or orange wigs and monster masks. When we passed one actor who seemed to have strange, “alien” eyes, Whitley whispered to me, “If that guy isn’t wearing contacts, I’m going home!”
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I was thinking the other day about what a really FUNNY book the Bible is. I’ve always thought that people take it MUCH too seriously! Because they stick to the flowery King James version, instead of more modern translations, they miss the wonderfully ironic sense of humor that Jesus and the New Testament writers had (The quotations below are from The Unvarnished New Testament by Andy Gaus, which is my favorite modern translation). This led me to decide to write about what I consider to be the 4 funniest stories in the Bible.
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Every year I seem to write an Easter Diary, and I don’t see why this year should be any exception. I actually went to church this year, and although I didn’t really want to go (and had all sorts of fantasies about what would happen there), I’m glad I did.
I don’t much care for organized religion and I always tell people, “I don’t go to church, church comes to me.” But I thought I’d better make an exception this time, in the name of family harmony.
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