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HAMILTON COUNTY HERALD Friday, May 7, 2010 21
Don and I recently returned
from a trip to Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico, which is quickly becoming
one of our favorite vacation
destinations.
Don and I are settlers. By
that, I mean we find somewhere
we are happy and keep returning
to the same spot over and over.
We have found a resort in Cabo
that is well within our budget, has
all the amenities we like, and
enough variety of food and
scenery to keep our attention for
the few days that we are there.
While some people prefer to try
the new and exotic with each
vacation, we are more “settlers”.
Most every time I feel the
need to speed up the excitement
level with our vacations, I am disappointed.
And just such an
occurrence happened with this
last one.
I’m supposed to hate the new
“Nightmare on Elm Street”
movie, which is little more than a
cash grab by Platinum Dunes, a
studio that has already issued
reboots of “The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre” and “Friday the 13th.”
But the film was entertaining
enough for a Saturday matinee.
I think my reaction had more
to do with my affection for the
original “Nightmare” movies than
anything special the creators of
the remake brought to the table.
The best installments of the classic
series, in which a child murderer
named Freddy Kruger
stalked and killed his victims in
their sleep, were visually inventive
and creepy. Anything was
possible as the movies danced
along the thin line between the
real world and the dreams of its
her mother’s holiday. In 1914,
President Woodrow Wilson
declared the second Sunday in
May as a national observance of
Mother’s Day.
Dale Victoria Wilson, owner
of Blue Ivy Flowers and master
florist, says that Mother’s Day is
the second biggest holiday for floral
sales right behind Valentine’s
Day. She says Mother’s Day sales
usually include lots of fresh flowers
as well as blooming plants like
hydrangeas and lilies, and plants
that can be repotted in the mother’s
yard. She says anything that is
living and growing is popular during
the Mother’s Day week.
Although all her mother’s
day flower stock arrived Monday,
Wilson says there will be plenty
of flowers available, and it is still
not too late to call in an order
for Mother’s Day flowers as they
will be making deliveries
through Saturday.
Wilson says flowers, are
Kay’s Cooking
Corner
By Kay Bona
I decided to try a different
resort – one a little out of our
usual price range (first mistake!),
and with a little more posh and
pizzazz! From this experience, I
learned the true meaning of
“holistic” – and it wasn’t something
we needed.
Oh the resort, placed on a
secluded end of the coast, was
indeed, extremely nice. There
was sensory-soothing aromatherapy
in every room, hallway and
commons area; relaxing Zen-type
music floating through the air;
entrancing and soothing water
features bubbling throughout the
property; labyrinths to mosey
through – you name it - this place
had it going on. If you wanted
subdued, undisturbed time to do
absolutely nothing at all, this was
the place. And sushi. They had
lots of sushi.
The Critic’s
Corner
By David Laprad
doomed teenagers, which made
sitting down to watch a new one
fun.
As the new “Nightmare”
began, however, a sense of “been
there, done that” oozed off the
screen. This time through, the
audience knows who Kruger is,
and must wait for the characters
in the film to catch up. This
makes the first hour or so rather
dull. Director Samuel Bayer uses
old tricks to try to stir up scares –
innocuous surprises make loud
noises and people pop out of
places they shouldn’t be to startle
viewers – but none of them work.
The movie gets interesting at
about the halfway point, when it
chronicles the events that turned
Kruger into a monster. In a bold
move, the filmmakers define the
motivations of the new Freddy
always a special kind of gift that
all mothers, herself included,
enjoy. She says the most memorable
gift she received from her
now adult son was when he would
pick her flowers from the yard.
“You can be in the dead of
winter and have someone send
you lilies, which you don’t have
in your yard at that time, and it’s
always nice,” she says. “We are
right in the throes of spring, so
every one of mother’s favorite
flowers are available now.”
The slogan of Blue Ivy
Flowers is, “Celebrate life with
flowers,” because, Wilson says,
flowers are always around to mark
important times in our lives
including births, proms, weddings,
anniversaries and funerals.
Although today’s Mother’s
Day sales remain high in flowers,
cards, perfume and candies, new
alternatives are available for nontraditionalists.
Mother’s Day
cards are available from organiza-
Diversions
So, what was the problem? It
was missing the stuff we like.
Families bustling around trying to
keep their overly excited children
in tow, young people sauntering
by with their Coppertone tans,
elderly people enjoying themselves
by the pool, hamburgers,
pizzas and nachos served from the
poolside brick oven grill – this is
the stuff we enjoy. Lots of tourists
just like us. Oh, and did I mention
that we don’t eat sushi?
I’m not knocking the other
side, just saying – we were out of
our zone, which was the whole
purpose of the resort – to get
“zoned”.
Well, the only kink in our
reservations was that I made
them through a second party
booking company, and had paid
for them a month in advance; so
getting a refund from this holistic,
over-our-budget resort was
not possible. However, to be as
accommodating as they could
(after I started crying at the
thought of spending five days
there), the resort did move us to
one of their other properties,
more in the center of town, and
with a family-type atmosphere.
They also had hamburger and
pizza out by the pool. Nachos and
tacos, all that good stuff.
more clearly by making something
at which the first
“Nightmare” only hinted more
explicit. It makes Kruger even
more hideous than before.
And therein lies the only real
strength of the new movie. Over
the course of five sequels, Kruger
went from child murderer to wisecracking
villain; he wasn’t scary
anymore by the time the sixth
film rolled around. But
“Nightmare 2010” replaces Roger
Englund with a new actor who
not only resurrects the evil in
Kruger but also makes the iconic
role his own.
Along the way, Bayer inserts
some nice tips of the fedora to the
original, which I’ll leave you to
discover.
The original “Nightmare”
remains a classic that’s just as
watchable today as it was 26 years
ago, making a redo unnecessary.
However, if you think of the
remake as more of a homage than
a shameless attempt to milk someone
else’s ideas for money, you
might enjoy more of it than you
hate.
•••
When scientists figured out
how to smash atoms into one
another, they created the most
destructive force known to man.
tions that donate the funds from
the purchase of their cards to
charitable causes. When you buy
Mother’s Day cards from the
United Nation’s Children’s Fund
(UNICEF), the proceeds go to
supporting the needs of children
worldwide. Buying a card from
the Foot and Mouth Painting
Artist Organization supports disabled
artists who are unable to
paint with their hands.
For mothers far away, e-cards
go straight to their e-mail inbox
and are offered by Blue Mountain
Cards, American Greetings and
Hallmark on their Web sites.
This reporter’s mother, Laura
Tuggle, agrees that the simple
things Bruner, Dumas and Wilson
enjoy from their children is something
she can identify with.
“You seriously can’t beat
handmade cards and words from
the heart or something that you
know mom likes,” she says.
Here’s looking at you, mom. ❖
It ended up being one of our
best vacations in a while, pricier
than usual, but fun. And even
though we don’t like to jump out
of our box and stay out of it for
any length of time, we still managed
to experiment – we ordered
Octopus one night for dinner!
And ate it – all of it. Even Don. It
was sautéed in garlic, olive oil
and a few herbs, and tasted like –
um-m-m, what can I say – chicken!
Rubbery chicken. Not something
we will ever try again, but
hey, stepped out of our box,
didn’t we?
Today’s recipe isn’t about an
appetizing dish of sautéed
If they’d really wanted to rip a
hole in the fabric of the universe,
though, they would’ve tapped
into the energy that’s produced
when two human lives collide.
Take one person who’s heading
full speed in one direction and
another who’s charting a different
course, ram them together, and
the resulting explosion can be cataclysmic.
But the lure of attraction
is so strong, and its effects on
our mental faculties so numbing,
most of us steer into, rather than
away from, the impact.
When all of that energy is
released, it almost always knocks
both people off course. Case in
point: Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) and
Stan (Alex O’Loughin), who
bump into each other in the back
of a taxicab and are soon hopelessly
entangled in love.
To say Zoe complicates Stan’s
life would be an understatement.
As she was waving down her ride,
she was on her way home from
being artificially inseminated.
The baby takes, and so does the
guy in the cab, leaving her in a
bind: does she tell the freewheeling
goat cheese farmer about her
pregnancy or wait and see where
things go?
Zoe decides to hold her cards
close to her chest. By the time she
Octopus. Sorry. You will have to
find that on your own! We love
this hummus with baked pita
chips.
Roasted Red Pepper
Hummus
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 15-ounce can Garbanzo
Beans, drained
1/3 cup tahini
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup roasted red peppers
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
Add all ingredients in food
processor, process until smooth.
Season with salt and pepper.
Transfer to small bowl, cover, and
chill until ready to serve. ❖
reveals her hand, Stan is already
in deep and does the honorable
thing. Unfortunately, neither of
them realize they’re at the mercy
of the second most destructive
force known to man: a terrible
screenplay.
The creators of “The Back-
Up Plan” take what could be a
funny, heartwarming and intelligent
movie and, in a stupefying fit
of unoriginality, throw every
known romcom cliché at their
hapless couple.
There’s actually a scene in
which Stan leans over a candlelit
dinner to kiss Zoe and knocks
over a bottle of wine. This tips
over the candles and ignites the
tablecloth, sending Zoe scampering
to a nearby hose, which she
uses to put out the fire and soak
Stan to the bone. Of course, he
laughs hugely, grabs the hose and
sprays her down in gleeful
revenge.
The rest of the movie is just
as bad or worse, but I only have
enough space left to issuing a simple
warning: if you’re feeling a
strong lure to see “The Back-Up
Plan,” steer away from, rather
than into, the impact.
Email David Laprad at
dlaprad@hamiltoncountyherald
.com. ❖
Mom’s day Continued from page 13
Mother’s Day is the second largest holiday for flower sales, right
behind Valentine’s Day. Popular choices of flowers for mom include
carnations, orchids, potted plants and the centipede vase selections
(pictured) offered at Blue Ivy Florist on Hixson Pike, says owner
and master florist Dale Victoria Wilson. (Erica Tuggle)