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My Money Pit
I have a new home and that means spending money.
By Chuck Nice
SO I'm going through my DVD collection (most of which are
films sent to me by WE tv) and I come across Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks & Shelly Long. I was surprised to find out that my wife
loves the movie, so we popped it in the player and watched. If you don't know
the plot here it is: A NYC couple decides to
leave their chic, cosmopolitan existence for the romantic innocence of the
countryside. They do so because they think they have found a tremendous deal on
a beautiful home. Needless to say the title betrays the rest of the film; the
home turns out to be a money pit and
their mistake leads to the demise of their relationship. The movie ends with
the couple doing the happily ever after thing... provided they don't ever have
kids. Okay, I added the part about the kids because let's face it--if your
relationship can't handle a home renovation, there's no way in shady
So, What's Wrong With a Man-Date Anyway?
As if it wasn't bad enough that I was on a man-date--we went
to see a chick flick!
I have realized two important things about writing this blog that I had not previously considered: 1) I am a fiercely private person and 2) I don't go to the movies. Talk about thinking things through--so what the hell am I going to write about? I haven't been to the movies in about a year, excluding the kid movies that I'm obligated to see with my daughter. Don't get me wrong, I love going to the movies with my daughter and I certainly don't want her to end up dating some "jerkwad" because Daddy didn't take her to the latest Pixar plot to empty my pocket. But there's no way in hell I would go to see Alvin & the Chipmunks of my own free will; it would be weird and creepy, like the lone male adult who sat in the back row while my daughter and enjoyed that movie. I kept looking over my shoulder and wondering what the hell was a grown man doing alone in a theater watching a kid's movie... freak. So the good thing about this blog is that I have to go and see movies, the bad thing is that I have to talk about them as they pertain to my life. So this past weekend I went to the movies.
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Chuck Nice Finally Has a Blog!
See what stand-up comedian Chuck Nice has to say about his new blog for WEtv.com
Wow! I can't tell you how excited I am to be writing a blog for WEtv.com; I've been working with WE tv for five years and it's been an absolute blast. Many of you know me as the host of Cinematherapy, a show where I play a mock therapist traveling the streets of New York City with a mobile office (including a blow-up couch), encouraging women to share their life experiences with me as related to themes we find in a movie. It's kind of like In Treatment but with real women and minus the smolderingly sexy therapist played by Gabriel Byrne. Look, I'll give you that he's much sexier than me, but I'd like to see him make therapy funny. Ha! Take that sexy Gabriel (I just showed him).