Back from the beyond

Post – August 30, 2001

After the movie, Part III:

My mother and I went to see “Forrest Gump.” Gary Sinise was fantastic as usual as the (eventually) legless Lt. Dan. As my mother and I left the theater, she turned to me and said, “I’m so pleased they hired a man with no legs to play that man with no legs.” “Mom,” I said, “Do you remember in the beginning of the movie when he had legs? I don’t think he had them cut off midway through filming. Gary Sinise does, in fact, have legs.”

I love my mom.

3 Comments

  1. Xkot

    And he knows how to use them?

    Sorry, I can’t resist a bad pun, especially when it involves making a ZZ Top reference on such a non-ZZ Top style site.

  2. Moira

    Your mom sounds like my mom. We once spent half an hour trying to convince her that the New Year’s specials were TAPED, and that due to the fact of TIME ZONES it could not, in fact, be midnight in New York AND in Santa Fe AT THE SAME TIME. We lost.

  3. kd

    yeah, my mom used to end arguments with ?but it must be true. it was on TV.? how can you argue with that? well, you can, but you couldn’t argue with the tone in which the words were said. final. period.

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