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The Cry Baby Killer (Back-to-Back Jack Edition)

THE CRY BABY KILLER: Don't miss a young Jack Nicholson, one of Hollywood's most enduring and celebrated icons, as he makes his screen debut starring in this Roger Corman classic. Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Wallace (Nicholson) is a jilted teen with a big chip on his shoulder. In a brawl over a girl, Jimmy grabs for a gun, shoots and panics, thinking he's killed one of the punks. Jimmy accidentally involves three hostages, who include a mom and her baby, by ducking into a storeroom. Despite the best efforts of the police, Jimmy is too scared to surrender. A media circus develops, adding more pressure to a wild standoff. THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Enjoy back-to-back Jack with this chilling cult classic, THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Shot in just two days, this beat-era favorite packs plenty of inspired lunacy. Seymour, the inept assistant florist, saves his job by nurturing a man-eating plant to health and drawing customers - and more than a little blood. As the chorus of "Feed me, FEED me!" coming from the talking plant reaches a crescendo, Seymour is forced to find more victims. Jack Nicholson's breakout moment comes in his comic turn as a masochistic dental patient who gets giddy over the prospect of having his teeth pulled!

Many fans will be taken by surprise to learn that two early Roger Corman films, Cry Baby Killer and Little Shop of Horrors, feature Jack Nicholson in his first roles. Cry Baby Killer is a schlocky West Side Story-ish tale with a jazzy soundtrack, in which Jimmy Wallace tries to steal his girl, Carol, back from gangster Manny Cole. Jimmy's clumsily naive gunfire complicates his situation, involving innocent bystanders. The film succeeds because of its '50s charm, but mainly because of Nicholson's good acting, which he manages despite a lame script. Little Shop of Horrors is a more entertaining, original story about Mushnick's Florist, a flower shop where employee, Seymour, breeds a blood-sucking carnivorous plant that encourages Seymour's increasing murderous dementia. This hilariously bizarre story clearly inspired early John Waters films with its absurd characters, such as a perverted dentist and young Nicholson, who plays the dentist's masochistic patient who craves to get his teeth drilled sans painkillers. Little Shop of Horrors is colorized on this DVD, lending it added campy charm. This Back-To-Back Jack may brag Cry Baby Killer, though the real attractions are the bonus feature and film introductions by The Man himself, Roger Corman. --Trinie Dalton

I was trying to sing Mackenzie to sleep, but she instead was interestedly watching me. Unbeknownst to me, Kat was videoing the whole ordeal.

And in case you don't know the words:

The fox went out on a chilly night
He prayed for the moon to give him light,
For he'd many a mile to go that night
Before he reached the town-o!
Town-o! town-o!
For he had many a mile to go that night
Before he reached the town-o.

Well, he ran til he came to a great big pen,
Where the ducks and the geese were kept therein
"A couple of you will grease my chin
Before I leave this town-o!
Town-o! town-o!
A couple of you will grease my chin
Before I leave this town-o."

He grabbed the gray goose by his neck,
And flung a duck across his back;
He did not mind the "Quack, quack, quack!"
And their legs all dangling down-o!
Down-o! down-o!
He did not mind the "Quack, quack, quack!"
And their legs all dangling down-o.

Then old Mother Flipper Flapper jumped out of bed,
Out of the window she popped her head,
Crying, "John, John! The gray goose is gone
And the fox is on the town-o!
Town-o! town-o!"
Crying, "John, John! The gray goose is gone
And the fox is on the town-o!"

Then John he went to the top of the hill,
Blew his horn both loud and shrill.
The fox he said, "I'd better flee with my kill--
Or they'll soon be on my trail-o!
Trail-o! trail-o!"
The fox he said, "I'd better flee with my kill--
Or they'll soon be on my trail-o!"

The fox, he ran till he came to his den,
And there were the little ones, eight, nine, ten,
Saying, "Daddy, Daddy, better go back again,
'Cause it must be a mighty fine town-o!
Town-o! town-o!"
They said, "Daddy, Daddy, better go back again,
'Cause it must be a mighty fine town-o!

Then the fox and his wife without any strife,
Cut up the goose with a fork and knife.
They never had such a supper in their life,
And the little ones chewed on the bones-o!
Bones-o! bones-o!
They never had such a supper in their life,
And the little ones chewed on the bones-o!

I don't usually (ok, ever) post videos, but today our old cat, Savannah, was put down. This video is from February last year, when she was fit and well. It shows her personality quite well - she was a nut, loved a cuddle and a scritch, and for some reason, the washing machine.

Savannah had a congenital heart murmur, and the cold weather we've had recently turned it into heart congestion. Rather than trying to keep her going with drugs that would've lessened her quality of life, we chose to say goodbye and ease her suffering. She really was not a well kitty in the end.

Pardon the crappy quality and the crying baby. This is in her memory.

The beauty of this entry in the Baby Einstein catalog is its integration of puppets, toys, and live farm footage to help babies and toddlers make the connection between their plastic play sets and stuffed animals with images of a real farm. As always, the spoken language is minimal, omitting the pesky verbs and adjectives that would confuse the very young. The 30-minute main program is divided into sections: barns and equipment, animals, planting crops, and harvesting. Background music ranges from "Old MacDonald" to Schumann, and DVD extras include a 6-minute puppet show and visual "discovery cards" identifying animals and farm paraphernalia with a single word. (Ages 6 months to 3 years) --Kimberly Heinrichs