Balls of Fury?

Balls of Fury? Huh?

Today is Tuesday and on Tuesday afternoons there is always a film to be shown in our Theater of the Performing Arts. (A little too pretentious, don't you think? I don't believe too many of our performances have been artsy, so to speak.) At any rate the film for today is "The Lives of Others". I never heard of it, but since Rhoda is going out to play cards, and I'm alone, I thought it would be a good idea for me to get out of the house to see a movie but I had misgivings about that one. So, I went to our old reliable internet movie review site, "Rotten Tomatoes" and found that the film had 95% great revues, and that's where I'll be this pm. It's a foreign film made in Germany with English subtitles, and since I read better than I can hear, I don't have to wear my hearing aids for this one. Wonderful.

But the funny thing I discovered on "Rotten Tomatoes" was a new film called "Balls of Fury". It's listed as a "huge comedy" with "tiny balls"! Of course, this piqued my curiosity and upon further investigation I learned it was a movie about PING PONG! Ping Pong?? I can't believe there is finally a movie on ping pong after all these many years of waiting for a tiny ball movie. Now, I'm not really an avid maven on that table game, but it just so happens that my downstairs neighbors, fairly new to Huntington Lakes, Bill and Bev Berger are nuts about playing a game with tiny balls. They usually play in a tiny ballroom in the tiny clubhouse.

They probably don't know that the movie is coming out this week because they are in San Diego on hiatus, most likely to recover from the strenuous sweaty activity acquired in that "sport". At any rate, I have sent them an email about it, and I'm certain they will be so thrilled, they'll rush out to celebrate with martinis, another activity they relish indulging in. When they return, Rho and I will be happy to join them at a movie featuring tiny balls. After all, ...it's only fair...for many years, we've been bombarded with movies about big balls.