cold turkey movie

 i watched another DVD movie this morning, the other recent amazon purchase, 'cold turkey'. it was of interest to me for multiple reasons, one of them being it was filmed in my native state, iowa. the other was the cast was quite familiar, many of them i recognized from TV shows i have enjoyed including bob newhart, jean stapleton, dick van dyke, tom poston, and paul benedict. i also liked seeing randy newman doing the music, and norman lear producing it. i first watched it with my dad, who sometimes would tell me about the movie, and he must have found a rental copy at the video store in my hometown. it has a setting in the fictional town of eagle rock, iowa, and was mostly filmed in greenfield. it is about a small town that has a bet to stop smoking for a month, in order to get a check of $25 million from a tobacco company. as an iowa native, i recognized a few things in it such as using anderson erickson milk, and an early scene is filmed at terrace hill, the governor's mansion. it does get ridiculous at times, but i think this is why it is known as satire. i still like the scene where a church hymn, 'o god our help in ages past', is played. i have always enjoyed the hymns more than scriptures. 

i watched some of the pro football games today, but not a lot. there was falcons-saints, and cowboys-vikings. i went on a long walk in the afternoon and found 7 cents. 'the simpsons' was about bart getting a voice-over gig and lisa performing in a dying mall. i called my dad in the evening as thanksgiving is coming soon, and figured he would want to hear about the movie i had just seen. he said my stepdad, and one of my cousins, has had covid.