Moorestown High School, SOUL Joel’s Alma matter, has been nothing but supportive early in his career in entertainment, hiring Soul Joel Productions for various fundraiser events. In addition, SOUL Joel spoke at the high school’s, “Wellness Day,” in the Fall of 2010. What better way to give back to his Alma mater than to periodically spotlight fellow Moorestown Alumni on The Comedy Point’s website.

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SCARPELLI vs. COOL HAND LUKE #136

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate”

The next film on the list is 1967′s Cool Hand Luke, I was able to watch this one hour before it expired on HBOGO the other night. Cool Hand Luke comes in at #136 on the list of The Top 250. The rating for this film on imdb is an 8.3. This movie was directed by Stuart Rosenberg who also directed The Amityville Horror & The Pope of Greenwich Village. I was surprised that I only remembered bits and pieces of this film from my childhood.

Paul Newman plays the title character Luke, Paul Newman must have gotten so much ass in his life. Luke is sentenced to serve two years in a prison camp/ prison farm for knocking the tops off parking meters. That’s a hell of a lot of time for vandalism. Luke has a hard time adjusting to the southern prison life, but after a visit from his mother and soon to follow her death Luke wants out. He has several unsuccessful escape attempts.

Luke is met with dislike the moment he arrives in prison from another inmate Dragline portrayed by George Kennedy who most of you probably remember as Det. Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun movies. Dragline kicks the shit out of Luke early in the movie. Dragline gains a respect for Luke during the fight for Luke’s will to contentiously get up after being hit over and over again. The two become friends and Dragline gives him the nickname Cool Hand Luke during a poker game. Dragline starts off this film like a viscous grizzly bear and finishes like a lost puppy dog.

While Dragline is boasting how much food his little friend Luke can eat, he is met with an argument from other inmates. Luke makes statement that he can eat 50 hard boiled eggs in one hour and all the inmates make bets on it, Dragline takes all the wagers against Luke. I have actually seen something just like this. I was in Virginia out drinking with my cousin Eric when I was 18 years old. We stopped at a diner on the way home and this same wager was going on in this diner. There was about 10-12 people standing around this table and they had bet that this one cat could eat 50 hard boiled eggs. I watched for a few minutes and it made me sick especially because at the time I hated hard boiled eggs. I like them now, I started eating them on Cobb salads and in recent years I started eating them whole. I only had one bad experience from eating them whole. I bought 24 hard boiled eggs from Giant and by the 3rd day I ate one and it didn’t sit easy. Side note on the story about Eric and I being in that diner while we standing there watching the guy eat the eggs we started talking to two guys. The next day we were in Georgetown shopping at Urban Outfitters where I bought this blue and white striped three quarter length jacket with a hood. I wonder what happened to that jacket, I loved it. The weird thing was when we walked out of Urban Outfitters I gave some homeless lady a few bucks and then we ran into the two guys we talking to in the diner night before. My cousin said shit like that only happens to me. To get back to the movie you will have to watch it to see how the hard boiled egg wagering went.

Speaking of wagers at the beginning of the film you see a lot of a character named Gambler that is portrayed by Wayne Rodgers from the television series MASH. Then his character kind of dwindles. Some other notable appearances through out the film. The character of Carr at the beginning of the film works as a sort of prison guard and gives the rules and regulations to the inmates when they arrive. Carr is played by Clifton James who played Charles Comiskey the owner of the Chicago White Sox in Eight Men Out and also played Sy Orlansky in one my favorite childhood movies Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I’m full of shit favorite childhood movie, it’s still one of my favorite movies.

Another treat in this movie is you get to see Harry Dean Stanton who in the credits is just Dean Stanton and plays a character named Tramp. You also get to hear him sing a version The Midnight Special which is a prison folk song that supposedly goes all the back to the early 1900′s. I personally like the Creedence Clearwater Revival version that you can hear in Twighlight Zone The Movie another awesome movie. CCR’s version is much better than ABBA version. ABBA really did record a version of this song, it’s awful. ABBA singing a prison folk song like The Midnight Special would be like Celine Dion covering Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues. You know it’s hard finding someone in the music industry who doesn’t have an arrest record. My first two choices for that analogy were John Denver and Robert Goulet both with arrest records for drunk driving, John Denver twice.

Most of you probably know Harry Dean Stanton from his role as Roman Grant on HBO’s Big Love or in my favorite role of his Bud in another one of my favorite movies Repo Man. I met Harry Dean Stanton at a bar in Hollywood he called some chick a bitch for yelling at me when I told her I didn’t have any cigarettes left. She was questioning very loudly because I put the empty cigarette pack back in my pocket. Which I always put empty cigarette packs back in my pocket because sometimes I put cash, pills or something else that might make me soar later on in the night in the cigarette pack. I don’t how many times I have thrown away perfectly good drugs or money in what I thought to be an empty cigarette pack. So, this guy at the bar calls the girl a bitch and I heard him but the back of his head was to me. When he turned around it was Harry Dean Stanton drunk looking just like Molly Ringwalds fucked up father in Pretty in Pink. I sat and chatted with him over a drink and then left to get more cigarettes.

Speaking of guys who played Molly Ringwalds fucked up father in movies. In Cool Hand Luke you get to see a younger version of the late great Dennis Hopper who also played Molly Ringwalds fucked up father in The Pick Up Artist. Hopper plays a character named Babalugats, his character is somewhat of dimwit. He mostly makes animal noises and squeals. The only thing intelligible you hear out of him the whole movie is a half of verse of Old Mac Donald.

The Director of Photography in this film was Conrad Hall who also is the DP on 2 other films on the list American Beauty & Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This film is visually awesome. The only complaint I have about this is the run time on this film is 2 hours and 6. This movie could have been cut to an hour forty. There was a lot of repeat shots and long establishing shots. Which the length of the movie must have been a sign of the times because the editor on this film Sam O’Steen did at least 4 movies on this list including The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby & Chinatown. All in all the acting was great especially George Kennedy who did win Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Paul Newman was nominated but lost to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night.  Donn Pearce & Frank Pierson were also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to Stirling Silliphant for In the Heat of the Night. Frank Pierson later goes on to win an Oscar for Dog Day Afternoon also on the list. Imdb rating is 8.3, I think I can only give it a 6.1. What a jerk off thing to do by adding the.1. Below is the best picture I can find of that jacket I was talking about, it’s not that great a picture I’ll try to find a better one. Like always please leave your comments if for better or worse.

TOP 250
136- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
251- Shutter Island (2010)

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Born Sarah Breedlove, was an African-American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur and philanthropist. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company.

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In today’s age of Reality TV and Social Media it seems that there’s never been a better time to be an Egoist. And while a good self image is important, here are ten signs that it is, in fact, all about you.

10 - Every time you meet a war veteran you tell them that you bought Army Surplus boots once
9 - You have acceptance speeches ready in case you win an Oscar, an Emmy or a Nobel Prize
8 - Although you don’t sing or play an instrument, you also have your Grammy Award acceptance speech ready
7 - You would be a Secret Agent, but you wouldn’t want to keep it a secret
6 - You wear a white dress to EVERY wedding
5 - Drew Barrymore’s character in E.T looked a lot like you as a kid. What was Spielberg trying to say?
4 - The ER nurse was so concerned with your brother’s wound that she barely acknowledged you. That bitch!
3 - You would rescue a puppy from a burning building…as long as someone is watching
2 - When dieting, you unplug the ice cream freezer in the Super Market
1 - If you think this list is about you, it’s not. But that’s what I’m talking about!!!

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A sense of humor as dry as an overcooked steak. If you’re sarcastic…or British, you should love his irreverent quips and “Smooth Vulgarity”.

A lifelong writer without the excess baggage of a soul, which he lost during his time on Wall Street.

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BEST AIR FILTERING HOUSE PLANTS, ACCORDING TO NASA!

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Well, it’s been a fun journey here at Far Running Fat Man, The Comedy Point, and Soul Joel Productions, but now it’s time to hit the old dusty trail. Thanks to Joel Richardson for allowing me to use his platform to reach a wider audience of readers, and for allowing me to get my feet wet with a couple of radio spots. I think I’ll try my hand at voiceover work at some point, even with my Tysonic lisp. Most importantly, thank you, dear reader, for indulging my flights of fancy, and for returning many times to read my numerous bitches, gripes, rants and complaints.

As for my future internet plans, a couple of my friends in the Seattle area are collaborating on a fun, informal pop-culture/sports/things-that-make-us-drink blog that has yet to be named. Feel free to follow me on twitter, subscribe to my Facebook feed, or check out my Tumblr page for updates on this.

But enough of my blathering! On to the final pick:

NFL Super Bowl XLVI Pick

I boycotted last year’s Super Bowl picks column out of protest against either Aaron Rogers or Ben Roethlisberger hoisting the Lombardi trophy. This year is not quite as unpalatable, but boy does the prospect of either Tom Brady or Eli Manning winning another ring feels like choosing between mildly fermented prune juice and toilet wine. I’m having a hard time getting up for this one. Perhaps discussing NBC’s six-hour pregame show (overkill much?) will put me in the right frame of mind:

Road to the Super Bowl – NFL Films wets our appetite for angular collisions and bloodlust for brain-jarring hits with recaps of both teams’ paths to the Super Bowl set to dramatic music. This is my favorite part of pregame hype because it distills everything that is appealing about my favorite sport (the competitive will, the emotional content) and shrugs off the slag (the beer commercials, the e-trade baby).

Hotel departure and stadium arrivals – Sideline reporters will stalk each team and report to America every turn, detour, and bathroom break of the athletes en-route to Lucas Oil Stadium while pretending not to be already dead inside. I wonder how many hooker-spankings it would take for someone to tolerate performing such a pointless job. “The team is now out of the hotel, and… and yes…  they’re now on the bus. Back to you, Bob.”

(Note: During this timeframe, NFL Network reporter Randy Moss will try, and fail to secure an interview with Rob Gronkowski’s ankle.)

Shameless pandering with the mini-field – “Hey average sports viewer. You seem liked a pretty stupid group. You probably have no idea when us network executives have an explicit contempt for your dim-witted, mouth-breathing demographic, am I right? Want Doug Flutie, Cris Collinsworth, and Rodney Harrison to kill time by pretending to play football for a few minutes on a tiny field to show you how it looks when athletes play real football? Because clearly, you’ve never watched football before, and therefore you need tutoring on the subtle differences between a ‘free release’ and a ‘receiver jam’. You poor, dumb bastard.”

Shameless celebrity pandering and/or television show/product cross-promotion – “Hey average sports viewer. You seem like someone who likes whores, am I right? Boy do we have a treat for you! Nick Cannon! Adam Sandler for some reason! Danny Devito steps-and-fetches for Universal Pictures’ upcoming film, The Lorax We don’t know what the fuck it’s about, but you’ll go see it! Chris Evans pimps The Avengers! (Fine, I’m a nerd. I’ll go see that one.) Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Carson Daly polish that turd-of-a TV show called The Voice, which coincidentally, makes its second-season premiere immediately after the Super Bowl! Katharine McPhee! Don’t know who she is? Me neither! But she has a show called Smash, which debuts Monday night on NBC! Jessica Simpson! Wait… Jessica Simpson?!? She has a new show too? Who else gets a new show, dishwater soap? Sorry, I can’t do the exec-shtick anymore. I don’t even know or care what her show is called. My first guess would be Vapid.”

There will even be a Top Chef tie-in that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but who cares? You’ll still watch this crap on Super Bowl Sunday, even though you’d probably never watch it on any other given night. I guess my point is that the average sports fan will have plenty of time for bathroom breaks and runs for more hot-wings.

Interviewing the NFL heavy-weights – This is where we get all the insider information, like Tom Brady thinks Eli Manning is an elite quarterback, and Manning has the upmost respect for Brady. We need to know these things because if Osi Umenyiora was trying to shatter the sternum of Tom Brady, a man who we might otherwise assume that Osi explicitly did not respect, our society would crumble and fall. This is where sports analysts earn their six-figure incomes by asking the tough questions, and by asking tough questions, of course I mean dick-ride until everyone’s raw and chaffed.

The obligatory annual interview of NFL Commissioner Goodell – Hopefully someone asks him how he felt about the Pro-Bowl linemen playing “patty-cake” for three and a half hours last week, and on what presumably gas-filled planet does he think this sham of an event still matters.

The inexplicably obligatory annual interview of the sitting U.S. President – Who started this absurd tradition, anyway? Was it Clinton? I bet it was Bush. I like Obama, but I don’t give a flying frog’s ass who he thinks will win the Super Bowl. It’s kinda sad that not even the President can pass up gratuitous face-time. “Oh sure, Matt Lauer, I have time to talk football! Just a sec though, I have to go to the kitchen and set our country to ‘simmer’ on the back burner… Be right back!”

The equally-inexplicably obligatory annual interview of Archie Manning – Self-explanatory.

The absurdly-unnecessary obligatory interview of Madonna – We all know how that will play out:

Bob Costas: So, you’re a singer, right?

Madonna: *nods coyly*

Costas: One of the most successful, most popular in history, correct?

Madonna: *nods coyly again*

Costas: But what many don’t know about you, *pregnant pause* is that you have been a die-hard (insert NFL team of your choice) fan all your life *eagerly grinning at her*.

Madonna: *nods coyly again* That’s right, Bob! *breaks out the bedazzled NFL jersey*

Costas: *toothy grin* The Material Girl, living in an NFL world. (or some other God-awful pun that will send me sprinting to the kitchen to drink everything beneath the sink.)

*end scene*

The puff-pieces – played for sentimental effect – Ah yes; Wes Welker’s high school English teacher’s father’s roommate’s cousin’s dog either helped Welker build rockets in elementary school, or miraculously survived a collision with an earth-mover in Biloxi, inspiring Welker to overcome his small stature. Or something. Either way, just know that you will have to fight off a speck of dust or two in your eye. Or you’ll just play it off by clowning your buddy who will be openly weeping next to you.

The puff-pieces – played for tragic/inspirational effect – former New Orleans Saints special teams standout Steve Gleason, diagnosed with ALS in 2011. Oh yeah, you’re going to fucking cry, goddammit. And so will I.

“Helmet Catch” revisited – Probably the only time that I will ever sympathize for and agree with Rodney Harrison. Yes, it was an awesome catch, but that doesn’t mean I want to see it every 3-6 months, and five times on Super Bowl Sunday. Cut it out, New York City.

Pregame performances – NFL’s Super Bowl XLVI Tailgate Party – Lenny Kravitz and The Fray will perform live. I don’t have anything snarky to say about Kravitz. I like some of his music, and I feel that his participation isn’t some contrived celebrity tie-in. I don’t know who The Fray are, but in their promo photo they resemble coal-miners freshly cleaned-up for a night at the local bowling alley. That makes them automatically approved for the football festivities.

National Anthem performed by former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson – Whatever.

Alright… enough of my stalling. Back to the game – Team listed on the right is considered the home team.

SUN, FEB 5

NY Giants at New England Patriots – 6:29 PM, NBC, Tickets, Lucas Oil Stadium – Really, ESPN? That’s really the kickoff time? 6:29 PM, eh? How peculiarly specific. I suspect it has something to do with either the military fly-over or Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance rider. (“As previously stated in our performance agreement, The Material Girl needs the kickoff to be at exactly 6:29. Not 6:25. Not 6:30. And GOD HELP YOU IF KICKOFF OCCURS AT 6:28!”)

I know it seems anti-climatic as hell, but this particular Super Bowl does have a preordained feel to it, and I see no reason to buck the trend. The G-Men are well-balanced. The Patriots defense is trash. Sometimes it’s that simple. Unless Coach Belichick submits the game plan of his life, or videotapes Eli Manning as he’s playing Madden 12, Tom Brady will need to put up a 40-burger. I just don’t see it happening.

The Pick: Giants 39, Patriots 30

Barry’s 2012 Picks Record

Conference Championships: 1-1

Playoffs: 7-3

Regular Season: 168-88

Overall: 175-91

Barry Dawson IV was a contributing writer for The Comedy Point. He wrote a weekly NFL Picks column and infrequently ranted about the decline pop-culture and other things that make him drink heavily. He also writes snarky “back-of-the-bus” film reviews for HDFest.com. Follow Barry on twitter.

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MATT SCARPELLI vs. SHUTTER ISLAND #251

Since this will be the first film of the blog, I want to go over a few things first. The rating system imdb has is a rating system 1-10, 10 being the highest. I will give you my ratings of each of the films as well. 2010′s Shutter Island ‘s rating on imdb is 8, I will give you my rating at the end.  Even though it was knocked off the list, it was on when I started so I’ll call it #251. I like the name Matt Scarpelli vs. The  250 better than Matt Scarpelli vs. The 251.

This film was directed by Martin Scorsese my favorite director and should be yours. I have to say Shutter Island felt more like a Stanley Kubrick film than it a Scorsese picture. I really liked where he went with this movie. I’m not afraid to say this I watched this movie when I was home alone and at one point in the movie I turned the lights on. I was a frightened little bitch, I heard every noise in the house. I felt like my head was on a fucking swivel. It takes a lot for movie to get me spooked. I find horror movies to be funny. For me to get up and turn on the lights takes a lot. I actually did laugh at myself when I did it.

This film takes place in the 1950′s after Word War II. Leonardo DiCaprio who has now starred in I believe four of Scorsese’s films plays Teddy Daniels. Teddy Daniels is a U.S Marshall who is sent to Shutter Island in New England to investigate a missing patient. Shutter Island is a mental hospital which is more like a prison for the insane criminals. The island has an eeriness about it that starts before they even get there. Teddy Daniels goes to the island with a new partner Chuck played by Mark Ruffalo. Their investigation takes a bunch of twist and turns due to the interference of two doctors that run the island played by Ben Kingsley and Max Von Sydow.

The run time of this movie was 2 hours and 18 minutes. It didn’t feel like it was that long. The acting was excellent. I really enjoyed it. The cinematography by Robert Richardson who was the DP on a few movies on The Top 250. He has shot a number of films for Scorsese as well as Oliver Stone and always puts out an excellent product. Then there is the masterful editing by Thelma Schoonmaker who has editied most of the films directed by Scorsese going all the way back to 1967′s Who’s That Knocking at My Door.

Overall I really liked this movie but I think the 8 is a little high. I’m not going to jump up that high with this film. I’ll go with 7.2. Feel free to share your opinions, whether it be to agree with me or call me an asshole. “Masterful editing” I sound like a DOUCHE!!!

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