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17 February 2006
It's OSTAR time
And the winner is...
By Terry Riley
It’s that time of year again, when the Hollywood millionaires get together
to congratulate themselves and to pitch their movies to the rest of us,
who support their limousine lifestyles. If
past years serve as a guide, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences will attempt to lure us back to the
 Metroplex to pay
extortion-rate prices for tickets, to cough up a ransom for a tub of
“butter-flavored” popcorn and to fork over cash for a chance to share an
armrest in the dark with some chick on her cell phone.
No thanks. I’ll wait for the DVD.
If you share my viewpoint, let me point you to some online creations that
will satisfy your video cravings—at least until such time as Brokeback
Mountain and Capote get released to your local Blockbuster store. I’ve
picked out my faves and have included links to them here. I call these
online oddments “Outstanding Snippets of Travel-Associated Recordings” or
Terry’s Travel OSTARs.
To view these snippets on your computer, you’ll need something called a
“plug-in” (whatever that is). If you don’t have an appropriate plug-in,
you can download one from links I’ve listed below. Oh, and you better have
a high-speed Internet connection. Otherwise, these miniproductions will
take forever to load.
Here goes:
Parking those incredibly small cars you rent in Europe.
Puts a bad hair day in perspective.
Innovative way to cut fuel costs.
Crews mistake Boeings for BMWs.
Miss the last bus and you’re stuck.
Airline may run afoul of the AARP.
It’s hard to top the movie “Airplane.” This clip shows why.
If only all cars were this easy to park.
Attempted landing that surely tightened some pucker strings.
The quickest way to see the Caribbean.
Yuck!
Let’s spend the night together.
Ladies, enjoy.
Don’t forget the sunblock and earplugs.
 The OSTAR
for
Best
airport reception
A380 flies—somehow.
Air travel the way it ought to be. Ladies,
send
your hate mail directly to me.
A 15-minute video with a lesson or two about hitchhiking
Cookie Monster goes to the airport.
No video here. Just radio spots for Sky High Airlines
(the official
airline of Err Travel).
After all these years, it’s still my fave.
There you have it: my choices for the OSTARs. If you know of some
candidates that I missed, please send
them to me. I’ll enter them in the next awards competition. In the
meantime, keep an eye out for that jumbo jet in your rearview mirror.
© 2006 Applied Psychology
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