Anyone who knows me well will eventually learn that my greatest childhood fear was (and still is, to some extent) E.T. Yes, that’s right. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial. The glowy-fingered, raspy voiced, prune-skinned, blood-sucking demon of the night. I was tiny when that movie came out. Way too little to go to the movie theater. My [...]

My female relatives abandoned the babies with the men on Friday night and headed to the theater to see their precious Edward and Jacob drool over Bella. I didn’t want to hear about the movie, but they did tell me that after the movie spent forever finally building up to it, *just* as the first [...]