Monday, September 29, 2008  Bad boy in the house  Earlier this
month I wrote about my 12 Must (somehow Sees) -- rare or hard to
find movies I long to view. I had little hope of watching any of
these movies, but that was before good samaritan and all-around
awesome blogger Marty McKee basically gave me a "step inside my
office." Through Marty's goodwill, I will be able to cross two
of those movies off my list, including the one I had most wanted
to see -- Bad Ronald. A 1974 television movie, it seems like
I've been aware of Bad Ronald for a long time, though I'm not
sure when I first learned about it. I had high expectations for
this movie, and am happy to say that they were largely exceeded.
Based on the book by the same name, Bad Ronald stars Scott
Jacoby in the titular role as a sweetly weird teen who has a
very bad 18th birthday. Lots of people have had miserable
birthdays, but few of them can say they accidentally killed an
adolescent girl on their big day. After blowing out the candles
on his cake and r