On Thursday, Oct. 11, trotted over to Nellie’s to catch the tail end of the Reel Affirmations 17 opening-night party, hoping to catch some tail in the process. It was there that it spied the always fetching tail of One In Ten’s fearless leader, Margaret “They’re Always After Me Lucky Charms” Murray. Hearsay asked how the festival might follow up the musical romp, Naked Boys Singing. “Well,” Murray said, sucking tantalizingly on a straw, “we’re giving all our money to the creators of Naked Boys to create what will become a quadrilogy. We’re close to signing a deal with Peter Jackson to direct, Sam Raimi to produce, and Ryan Gosling, Milo Ventimiglia, Brad Pitt, the guy who played Tuvac on Star Trek Voyager and Jodie Foster to star. Next year we’ll open with Naked Boys Mountain Climbing. The year after that, Naked Boys Supermarket Shopping. And the year after that, Naked Boys Churchgoing.” When asked what the storylines of these new films might be, Murray pshawed, “Who needs a storyline when you’ve got dangling willies by the double fistful?” Sounds like the makings of a cinema masterstroke….
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