$7.50 TO WATCH PEOPLE DO CROSSWORDS?

Would you pay the price of a movie ticket to watch Bill Clinton do a crossword puzzle? I wouldn't. The movie/documentary *Wordplay* which opened a couple of weeks ago, thinks maybe we would. I like crosswords and work crosswords, but this sounds about as exciting as watching grass grow.

According to the critic's article in the Arizona Republic (6/30), the Crossword conventions are not too unlike the Trekkie conventions. These *compulsive solvers* even go as far as designing and wearing costumes. Costumes? Like what.....a ball point pin or wrap-around black and white squares? There isn't much to work with here. Maybe a dictionary? Hmmm....(as I scratch my head)

It would've been great to do a spoof, but this is pretty serious. The only thing exciting is the rare cuss word, but that's not $7.50 worth. It's all too puzzling ( get it?) to me why and how a person would want to do a movie/doc. on crosswords in the first place.

Gotta go do the puzzle or set up the video in the yard to get some good film of the grass growing.