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From: Chris Kohut <chriskayak_at_earthlink.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Cast Away - yer coconuts
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:22:23 -0500
<<I saw the movie as well. Didn't like it much, but I did enjoy the surf
scenes.>>>
                    I especially liked the pandering to FedEX......cameo
C.E.O. walk-ons.... The pep talk in Russian was nice..... but the crash
scene did about as much for Fed Ex's image as the Rainman's exclaimed
'K-mart SUCKS' line did for the Big K's sales that month,........
I had to wonder about the point of the whole thing as Hanks at the end
(of the  two hour Fed Ex commercial) delivers the returned angel wings
to the spurned housewife in Texas....after all he'd been through.
(Exceptional packing job....you've got to admit)     Someone behind me
and to the right was evidently awed......." Damn!  Fed Ex is good," I
heard him mutter.
                    And now you know exactly why crab is seldom on a
sushi platter.
                I did love the line about 'what Gilligan did not tell us
about coconuts', though.

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