My son (25) just got himself one of the new Blu-Ray players so we wanted to get a pizza and watch a couple of classic movies and drink beers and talk about classic television and public transportation.
My son has a form of celiacs disease and keeps kosher. We came to Cafe Eilat for the pizza. Gluten-free doesn't seem to be a thing but luckily his celiacs disease isn't triggered by gluten but seems to be caused by a mixture of stress and fear. Thankfully his new job seems to leave him mostly stress-free and he only gets truly spooked about once a month. We are an anxious pair so I am usually spooked about twice a week although I mark some of this due to my old age (53) and some of it due to my imagination. My son takes his faith more serious than I do and only eats in kosher places. Most kosher places in Boston are actually not in Boston at all but are in Brookline, a small town that ought to be annexed by the city if we are to live in harmony, frankly. This place was very busy with lots of people choosing to eat in the restaurant rather than in their rented apartments on their IKEA furniture. This however was not our plan and we quickly picked up the food and headed back to Brighton in my son's champagne colored Taurus to watch the 1993 classic "So I Married An Axe Murderer" on Blu-Ray. It is the story of a young beat poet played by Mike Myers who falls in love with a butcher store owner played by Nancy Travis. His parents are lovable eccentric Scottish alcoholics who read tabloids and smoke. His mother convinces him that Nancy Travis is an axe murderer but he brushes it off. They eventually marry and well, the title tells you that much. It's a great movie and has many amazing cameos from Alan Arkin to Kramer/Michael Richards. Being a Mike Myers movie, Michael Hagerty is in it too. Charles Grodin and Steven Wright make appearances. My favorite cameo is Carrot Top who appears as himself. My son and I love this movie and I plan to take him to many of the filming locations on our next visit to San Francisco this summer.
The pizza was good but I really enjoyed the movie. 4 stars.
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