CPR 3-25-2012 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES, BUT NO SUNDAY MATINEE

This past Saturday night was an active one for the pets at 540 Paddock Avenue.  Lady Emma, after putting off Max Savejs for weeks, finally accepted his invitation to come over to his house to watch a movie.  Max cleverly cued up Disney's "Lady and The Tramp" on the DVD,which turned out to be a good movie choice. (Certainly better than Max's other suggestion for a movie, which was Disney's "John Carter"-- Lady had been put off by the reviews, as well as by the prospect of watching a movie with Max, and his "Roman" paws,  in a darkened theater).  Lady identified with the title heroine,  and Max saw a little bit of himself in the Tramp, particularly in the scene where Jock sucks down the spaghetti in the street cafe, to the accompaniment of a cliched Italian chef playing the concertina and singing "Bella Notte".  (Actually, the romance for both Lady and Max was in the scenes where food was consumed by the dogs).  Pharoah also had a Saturday night date, his usual with the mature, retired school teacher across the street.  He and the "Teacher" watched a dvd of "Harold and Maude", the classic 1971 dark comedy starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort, which had everything the May-December couple could want in a movie, except inter-species romance. After the movie, it is not clear what Pharoah and the "Teacher" did for the rest of the evening,  but Pharoah once again didn't come home until the morning, and once home pretty much sacked out the rest of the day. (Photo 1).  Inspired by the escapades of Lady and Pharoah,  Libby the Cat tried to coax a young Darnell  to go see a Sunday Matinee with her, but Darnell was less than inspired by the prospect of spending his Sunday with a feline old enough to be his great grandmother, so despite the attempted seductive pose struck by LIbby (Photo 2), he politely turned her down  by pushing her away from himself with his paws as far as he could. (Photo 3).

SPONSORED BY DISNEY'S JOHN CARTER.   A MOVIE SO BAD NOT EVEN CATS AND DOGS WILL GO SEE IT.