Two families. In one a mother and her son take a rare opportunity to get out of town and visit family. In the other, the father goes on a business trip leaving his wife and son alone with a finicky Ford Pinto that needs repair. Meanwhile, an unsupervised St. Bernard chases a rabbit and winds up getting bit instead. Without anyone knowing it, the scene for a devastating, outrageous tragedy has been set-up. The dog, of course, is the title character and the bite infects […]

AKA The Book that Inspired the Movie that Inspired the SNL Skit “Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic.” Johnny Smith is a young teacher in a nascent relationship when his taxicab is struck head on by a drag-racing teen. He spends the next 55 months in a coma while his hospital bills reach insurmountable heights, his mother falls into a religious mania, and his girlfriend moves on with another man. When he finally wakes up and catches up on Watergate and the rest of the history he […]