My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven is a perfect metaphor for my life.  Sometimes, at night, I think about how nice my life is: live in a nice town, middle class, kid, dog, ocean down the street.  But, Monday through Friday SY works at night, and when the boy goes down, I have like four hours to myself.  I get kind of lonely.

My Blue Heaven: solitude in paradise.

Vinnie the Federal Witness is Steve Martin's last great comedic role.  His blue heaven is boredom in security.  The FBI puts Vinnie in the fictitious small suburb of Fryburg, just outside of San Diego -- the exact opposite end of the country from his hometown of New York, New York.  His wife leaves him, and he knows no one.  The safety of small town life is supposed to be heaven, but the simpleness of suburbia instills such restlessness.

Rick Moranis plays Barney Coopersmith, the work-obsessed manila folder that the FBI has assigned to be custodian of Vinnie.  His blue heaven: Barney's wife leaves him (played by the lady that played Noah's wife in Wayne's World and the french maid in Clue)--with no tethers to a home life, Coopersmith can focus his attention entirely on his work, his assignment happens to be watching an antsy federal witness.

hilarity ensues -- Vinnie learns the values and joy of lawn mowing and nice houses with flowers in front; Barney learns to use a little less starch in his shirt and becomes the kind of guy that shmoozes it up with stewardesses and nuns on  cross country flights.

Truth is I'm only watching this because I wanted to watch a movie while I balanced my checkbook and I've seen this movie so mch that I don't have to give it my undivided attention.  It was either that or The Rock.

Just primarily listening to the dialogue, I'm realizing that Rick Moranis doesn't really turn cool.  Like kewl cool.  He actually kind of turns into a douche.  On a different yet peripherally related matter: I think that my concept of cool, not kewl cool but cool cool, is influenced to a significant degree by Vinnie.


The word douche is over-used these days, so I'm going to start saying "doche" because I usually misspell douche as doche.  Doche sounds better and will save me backspacing.