Weekend Recap

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Howard started off this Monday morning reviewing what everyone did over the weekend. He said he had his youngest daughter and her friend at his apartment. He also took his parents and his mother’s oldest friend out to dinner Friday night. Yesterday, Howard and Robin went to a screening of the new movie, “Cinderella Man,” staring Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger. They both loved it and Howard thought Russell Crowe was so good that he might never say another bad thing about him, ever. The movie is based on a true story and, as Howard described it, is a better version of Rocky. Robin was so impressed she went home and looked up info on the story. She even learned that one of the characters, Max Baer, was the father of the actor who played Jethro on “The Beverly Hillbillies”! They both believe this will be an Academy Award winner for Crowe and Zellweger as well as for the movie’s director, Ron Howard. Howard noted that while he didn’t see it, he did predict that “Star Wars III” would make over $100 million over the weekend, (it actually made over $150 million). Back to his own weekend, Howard said he also had a great dinner at an Italian restaurant called Ecco. This reminded Artie that he had dinner with his mother this weekend at a Hoboken landmark, Frankie and Johnnie’s. Robin said she went to Boston this weekend for her nephew’s graduation from MIT. Howard wanted to know if her nephew’s parents ever got jealous of “Aunt Robin’s” relationship with their son. She said not at all, but it is weird to be called “Aunt Robin.” She would prefer he just call her Robin, but his parents insist that he call her “Aunt Robin.” She said that a fan once asked him if he was “Mr. X” — the show’s name for Robin’s boyfriend — which really freaked him out. Howard remembered going out to dinner with one of his older daughters once and the waitress asked if they were having a romantic evening. He said his daughter made him tell the waitress that they were father and daughter, but he didn’t think the waitress believed him.