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  Saturday  October 29  2005    11: 16 PM

movies

Zoe turned me on to Bruce Campbell. Bruce is a B movie actor who is having way too much fun. Not only was he seen in multiple Zena and Hercules episodes but starred in such great low budget B movies such as "Evil Dead" and "Army of Darkness". He has also shown up in bit parts in movies like Spider Man since Sam Raimi is a good friend and collaborator of his. I would never miss a Bruce Campbell movie. They are too much fun. His new one is also great fun but goes in some different places.

Bubba Ho-Tep


We find the King (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds…

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Old people as heros. Not to be missed.