Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Throw Momma from the Train

An early scene in Throw Momma from the Train hits close to home.

Larry, the community college creative writing professor played by Billy Crystal, listens blankly as a student reads from her submarine story.

“Dive… DIVE,” yelled the captain through the thing. So the captain pressed a button, or something, and it dove. And the enemy was foiled again!”

I've been in my fair share writing classes and workshops. Believe me: this is only a slight exaggeration of the terrible writing one can encounter. Thankfully, I've never met anyone who has written anything as uncomfortable as “100 Women I Would Like to Pork.”