I quit, so I can have one, right?

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2007)

I'd kill for a sip and a smoke, but will the sipping and the smoking eventually kill me? I'm with Travis/Williams on this one: "I smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet". Alas, Tex didn't see the witch hunt coming. Just today I saw a flock of smokers caged in a tiny glass box at the airport. In a world where health nuts make the rules and smoking is the new manslaughter, this gem of a movie comes just in time. It's an unbridled tribute to addiction and a celebration of the otherworldly peace afforded by a cup of coffee and a smoke, the ultimate guilty pleasures drinkers of fruit juice and herbal tea will never know. That being said, it's easy to hate Roberto Benigni, even for coffee addicts and lovers of tobacco, but you've got to pay the man some respect for his pre-dental appointment espresso routine. He's only outdone by Bill Murray, old school lover of all things black. In the "Delirium" episode, Murray takes it straight from the mug and fights his cough with oven cleaner from an unseen gallon jug. He is the man. Says MC Grice of the Wu Tang Clan, aka the Genius, aka GZA: "Bill Groundhog-Day, Ghostbustin'-ass Murray!"