In an act that is reminiscent of Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds, Belgium came to an end last night. Only on TV.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end. State television broke into regular programming late Wednesday with an urgent bulletin: The Dutch-speaking half of the country had declared independence and the king and queen had fled. Grainy pictures from the military airport showed dark silhouettes of a royal entourage boarding a plane.

Only after a half hour did the station flash the message: “This is fiction.”

There’s no revolution in Belgium. Really

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Another fun-filled evening was spent at at the Beach Cinema, 110 Main St., Bradley Beach, NJ this evening. This week, Walk the Line staring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter.

Overall, a good movie, though, maybe there could have been a few less pill-popping scenes which could have lessened the run time of 136 min. Or maybe it was the waiting outside in the opening day like line that made the movie seem a bit long in the tooth.

The outing did bring an opportunity! I brought the camera this time to take a shot of the dedicated urinal. Below is the dedication and the urinal itself!

I saw the movie “Pride & Prejudice” at the Beach Cinema, 110 Main St., Bradley Beach, NJ this evening under the guise that there may be a gratuitous nudity scene (UPDATE - This was a joke, enough with the letters.).

Not a chance. I think I could have counted on one hand or at most on the toes of a Hemingway cat the number of times human contact took place. I’m guessing disease was rampant in the good olde days and they hardly ever touched another human due to the fear of contracting some hiddeous disease.

They probably will save the contact for “Pride & Prejudice II” given that the desperate mother has wed off or engaged to be married 3 of her 5 daughters by the end of the movie.

The best part of the movie occured while in the bathroom. Printed on a plastic 3″ x 6″ plaque was something like “This urinal is in memory of Harry who has been a customer of Beach Cinema since 1935” or something like that.

Price of a movie ticket at Beach Cinema - $3.75
Time invested - 1 hour 47 minutes
Amount of gas to get there and back - 1/4 tank

Having a urinal dedicated to your memory - priceless

I only hope that when I die, someone devotes the most heavily used urinal in history to me.

Coming soon to Beach Cinema, “Walk the Line” and “Memoirs of a Geisha”.

For those of you who can’t wait for “Pride & Prejudice II”.

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