Alfa Romeo/Graduate homage.

[David Ziglin <davidz@domain.elided>]

Those of you who have seen Albert Brooks' MOTHER please excuse me.  I 
saw it for the first time night.   I think Albert Brooks is terrific. 
For those who have not seen it .......

The Brooks character decides that he must rush home to his mother in 
order to rid himself of the proverbial demons.   And so there is this 
terrific series of scenes wherein from a bird's eye view we see 
Brooks doing the 400 non stop miles to mom......... including 
crossing the bridge.   These scenes look oh SO familiar.

Aha.  Yes, then the apres Simon and Garfunkle singing begins : 
"Here's to you Mrs. Henderson ..........."    And, yes, he is driving 
an Alfa Spider.   Similar to "The Graduate" the character never moves 
the shift lever once despite the idea of frantic haste.   Very cool.

........................................................................................
CHICAGO AUTO SHOW  :  What a disappointment; what did you think?

No Alfas.  Lotus?  Yes, but only the Elise.

Most interesting - and perhaps you can explain this to me - was 
another category of the missing.  Clearly, some agency was hired to 
hire woman in black suits, for the most part, in order to hawk the 
cars.  All of them were on their way to being attractive but never 
would quite make it.  All had longish hair - mostly blond.   That's 
beside the point however.   What is the point is that they were all 
missing asses.   Not one of these women had rear ends - a kind of 
Khamm effect.  What's that about?


Oh, I actually saw a Cadillac that I thought was attractive; what's that about?

Forza,

David
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