[Steppes] OTS--Oct 1, Hilarious movie with a rapier scene

[Elaine]

Need something to see to leave your sides aching from one pricelessly  
funny scene after another?

If you can see the TMC channels, check out an English movie from  
2007, "Assassin in Love." ( Ever hear of "Shakespeare in Love"? "Milo  
Shakespeare" is the assassin's chosen alias. "No relation.") It comes  
on tonight, Oct. 1, sometime between 6 and 6:30 .

The premise is that the assassin is trying to hide out in a small  
village in Wales. As he enters the village, half a dozen men in  
tournament garb are running along the road out of town. (Remember the  
Masai group that run by Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in "Out of  
Africa"?)

On a hill, he buries his gear, but is observed by a teen in town. The  
teen is self-training to be a terrorist. The head of a ram he blows  
up at that time (a la The Godfather) conks and knocks out the assassin.

Later the kid digs up the gear and determines the assassin is using  
the stay there to be a cover. The assassin assumes the job of being  
the town's awaited baker, though Milo has never baked before. (The  
SCA food community will dissolve at watching what he does to dough.)

Being a small community, of course eventually the whole village knows  
he is an assassin, but he does not know they know. Through various  
twists, everyone "code talks" to the assassin, aka "The Baker,"  
ordering a "chocolate cake" to be delivered to people in the village  
they don't like and wish dead. "The Baker" still thinks they really  
want chocolate cakes.

The ambitious teen volunteers to be The Baker's assistant, hoping he  
can become an "assistant assassin."

A side plot involves Milo's rival in the hierarchy of his job who is  
seeking him out to assassinate The Baker. They have a fight with  
foils (note the button). Neither would have lasted 10 seconds with  
almost anyone in the SCA rapier community! They also try fighting  
with poles.

The sex scene with the eligible girl and The Baker on the bakery's  
kitchen floor (with the teen passed out drunk against a wall) is only  
one of the funniest in the whole hilarious movie. Multiple eggs are  
broken, with batter and jam is smeared everywhere.

Ya gotta see this! Someone tell D'aud......

YIS,
HL Lete Bithespring
; - DDDDDDDDDD