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A little bit more than the law will allow
“Have you seen the Jessica Simpson video?”
Shannon asked me that a couple weeks ago, adding “it’s OK if you have.”
It’s OK? I hadn’t seen it, but it sure must be something if I needed forgiveness for watching it. I thought about it for a while, got distracted and then that train of thought derailed and disappeared.
(A little deep background here: Next week I will become the latest Austin American-Statesman temporary film critic when I review the “Dukes of Hazzard” movie. What? You didn’t really think they’d get anyone else to do this, did you? Look for the review in print and online next Friday).
So I had a reason to be checking out the “Dukes of Hazzard” movie Web site, when I ran into that Jessica Simpson video.
Hmmm. A little research opportunity. I love my job. Because I was at work, I played it with the sound off. Who am I kidding? Even if I saw it on TV at home, I’d have played it with the sound off.
I have one real comment on the video (and no, it’s not anywhere along the lines of “hubba, hubba woo-boy”): When Jessica pulls up into our pseudo-cowboy-redneck dusty town in the General Lee, she opens up the door.
What’s up with that? In the TV series, the doors were welded shut, you see. I don’t care if Jessica’s boots were made for walking, she’s trampling on a quarter-century of tradition here.
As many times as I had to watch Bo and Luke Duke squirm through the windows of that Dodge Charger — not to mention, please don’t, the times we saw rotund Uncle Jesse squeeze into that car — we ought to get to see Jessica fall out of the window.
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By Katherine
July 29, 2005 08:35 PM | Link to this
I just noticed last night, right before I dived on the remote to change the channel, that she opens the door. Bah!
And Uncle Jesse shoehorning into the General kind of reminds me of how a 12-pound cat can squeeze through a 3-inch gap.