Drop Dead Gorgeous

Here's a movie you should watch - "Drop Dead Gorgeous" with Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Allison Janney (steals the show as Loretta) and Denise Richards. It's one of those dark humor type movies that makes fun of small town beauty pageants. This one happens to take place in Mont Rose, Minnesota, which is not even a suburb of the "Sin Cities," as Gladys (Kirstie Alley) mentions.

They do the Minnesota accents pretty well, too. I do have to note that it's mostly people in central and northern Minnesota who have that thick accent. I'm sure the rest of we natives have it to some extent, but I really hear people talking like that when I'm north of Minneapolis/St. Paul....dont-cha know.

Rent this movie. At the end, when they're in Minneapolis, pay attention to the bartender. I went to college with him. Ironically enough, he was the bartender at our stomping grounds in Winona, Bullseye. We called him Otter back then - I can't remember his real name...Brad, I think. He's really cute. He's a bartender at The Newsroom in downtown Minneapolis now. I talked to him there briefly once. He remembered me b/c my friends and I went to Bullseye so much in college. Nice.