Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston: DVD gift suggestions on the occasion of their engagement

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romeo-and-juliet Image Credit: Everett CollectionYou know how colleagues or teammates or the whole office chip in to celebrate a friend’s big news? Here’s an opportunity to provide young parents and on-again sweethearts Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston with a relevant video library — well, with a list of titles, anyway — that suits their lifestyle. What should they watch on their big flat-screen TV on the many nights when they’re home together with baby Tripp, just the two of them, no babysitting relief, and they’re tired of playing Boggle?

Here’s what I’m contributing:

Riding In Cars With Boys (2001). Based on a tough memoir by Beverly Donofrio. Drew Barrymore is really great as Beverly, a girl in 1960s Connecticut whose life is upended by one fateful night. She gets pregnant at 15, she has the baby, she’s forced by her family to marry the deadbeat, druggy father (Steve Zahn), she leaves the guy, she shares her travails with a girlfriend (the late Brittany Murphy), who is also a teen mom. For added difficulty, Barrymore also plays Beverly as a woman in her thirties with a grown son.

For Keeps (1988). Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff play Darcy and Stan, high school seniors whose lives are upended by one fateful weekend. Darcy gets pregnant, the two keep the baby, they get married, they have a lot of struggles. It all works out.

Juno (2007). Ellen Page. Michael Cera. “That ain’t no Etch-A-Sketch. That’s one doodle that can’t be undid, Homeskillet.” “This ain’t no food baby, all right? I’ve taken, like, three pregnancy tests, and I’m forshizz up the spout.” “If I could just have the thing and give it to you now, I totally would, but I’m guessing it probably looks like a sea-monkey right now and we should let it get a little cuter.” There’s more where that came from.

Romeo + Juliet (1996). No one gets pregnant. It’s all very romantic and very tragic, very classic Shakespeare and crazy-lush Baz Luhrmann. It’s also very Leonard DiCaprio and Claire Danes (top). If we could roll back time, wouldn’t they be a perfect casting choie for Levi and Bristol?

Now it’s your turn to kick in. The best part is, you don’t need to cough up any cash.

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Karate Pants
Wed 07/14/10 2:46 PM

I’m going to squeeze my eyes shut verrry tightly and open them, and when I open them, I’m going to find that an article tying Romeo and Juliet to Bristol Palin and Levi Playgirl NEVER EVER EVER happened…

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- Karate Pants
  Wed 07/14/10 2:53 PM
  
  DOH!
  
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- Brian
  Wed 07/14/10 2:56 PM
  
  Levi’s hot.
  
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  - stephen
    Wed 07/14/10 2:59 PM
    
    agreed! yum!!
  - jared4ever
    Wed 07/14/10 8:01 PM
    
    If you find illiterate rednecks with no education and babies they don’t provide for hot. Then yeah i guess so.
Mandy
Wed 07/14/10 2:51 PM

Actually Juliet could’ve been pregnant but died before finding out.

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will
Wed 07/14/10 2:55 PM

Since when did Beverly D’Angelo write memoirs?…I believe you mean Beverly Donofrio…

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- will
  Wed 07/14/10 2:59 PM
  
  *D’onofrio….mistakes happen
  
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  - Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Wed 07/14/10 3:02 PM
    
    thanks–fixed! My typing fingers got ahead of my brain.
  - will
    Wed 07/14/10 6:12 PM
    
    …although I wouldn’t mind reading a memoir by Beverly D’Angelo…is that wrong?
paul
Wed 07/14/10 2:58 PM

Bristol should watch THE FIRST WIVES CLUB now.

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ron
Wed 07/14/10 3:01 PM

how about leave them to there own fate and wish them the best

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- Karate Pants
  Wed 07/14/10 3:15 PM
  
  They announced their engagement in US Weekly. I hardly think they want to slink away quietly into family life. Hard to leave them alone when they refuse to go away.
  
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  - MI_Represent
    Wed 07/14/10 3:43 PM
    
    Ditto
  - so done with this
    Wed 07/14/10 9:24 PM
    
    I am so sick of liberals. Slink away quietly? Quietly is how the media reacted when Levi admitted to lying. Refuse to go away? Really? So EW’s famously wrong Lisa Schwartzhead thinks it is funny? Morons.
  - c
    Wed 07/14/10 9:35 PM
    
    Anyone who gets a check from a magazine to announce their engagement is fair game. If you want to be left alone, go away and SHUT UP!! Alaska is huge-it would be very easy for them to disappear.
  - Rich
    Sat 07/17/10 9:46 AM
    
    @so done…. Hahaha, exactly. Bristol and Levi are ALL Bill Clinton’s fault!
- MI_Represent
  Wed 07/14/10 3:44 PM
  
  ‘their’
  
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MI_Represent
Wed 07/14/10 3:41 PM

“Saved” with Mandy Moore

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- Christian
  Wed 07/14/10 3:47 PM
  
  “Do you think Jesus hates me?” “Yeah”
  
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  - Christian
    Wed 07/14/10 3:48 PM
    
    “There’s only one reason a girl like that goes into [Planned Parenthood]” “Oh my God, she has a pipebomb?!?” “Ok, two reasons”
  - Brrrappp!
    Wed 07/14/10 11:39 PM
    
    “I am FILLED with Christ’s love!” *chucks bible*
    
    I need to watch that again asap.
- Ronnie1
  Wed 07/14/10 9:44 PM
  
  Oh,yeah…”Saved” is so on the target about “religious conservatives”…and hilarious to boot!
  
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/Liz
Wed 07/14/10 3:46 PM

Thanks for including For Keeps in this. It’s great. One of my favs.

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Kate McDermott
Wed 07/14/10 4:09 PM

Who needs approval from your parents when you’ve got a big fat check flying into your mailbox hole courtesy of America’s biggest tabloid whore. Can we all shout ‘payola’ all together?!

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/07/bristol-palin-and-levi-johnston-are-back-together-again/

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Monty
Wed 07/14/10 4:16 PM

9 and a Half Weeks – a tribute to how long their marriage will last

another 9 and a half weeks – for when they eventually rekindle their romance, and break up again.

Predator – for when Sarah Palin eventually goes mad and hunts Levi in the alaska wilderness, he will need to have seen this to learn how to avoid her heat seeking vision.

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Dicazi
Wed 07/14/10 4:31 PM

Does Jeff Foxworthy have any “You Might Be A Redneck….” DVDs?

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- Tic
  Sun 07/25/10 1:29 AM
  
  I thonk that level of comedy is over their heads. Maybe if it was a directors cut with explanations of the jokes.
  
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amanda
Wed 07/14/10 6:29 PM

any movie with murder/suicide.
Except then mama palin would have to raise that adorable baby. Oh well, he doesn’t have a chance anyway. Poor little thing.

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minniwicked
Wed 07/14/10 6:53 PM

I vote for Deliverance 2; uh-oh…that’s not out yet…sorry

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Razor
Wed 07/14/10 8:22 PM

Is there a movie about paying off someone’s first baby daddy to act like he’s the second baby’s daddy as well? ‘Cause I’m betting that’s what’s going on here… there’s no way that Sarah Palin would take in a Playgirl-posing traitor unless it suited her to do so.

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- c
  Wed 07/14/10 9:38 PM
  
  I have no idea what you’re talking about. Are you saying Tripp was fathered by Bristol’s father? Or that Levi is the father of Sarah’s baby?
  
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  - e
    Tue 07/20/10 3:22 AM
    
    He’s saying she’s pregnant again, by someone else, and they are trying to make you think they have gotten back together and are getting married so Bristol doesn’t look like a slut to the Religious Right.
- Morrie
  Fri 12/23/11 12:09 AM
  
  We\’ve arvried at the end of the line and I have what I need!
  
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- mcahumlydcg
  Sun 12/25/11 4:44 AM
  
  VGdqqM xhudsmxluarw
  
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Ugly Jenny
Wed 07/14/10 8:44 PM

Wow, there’s already a lot of Palin hatin’ on these boards. Bristol and Levi’s relationship doesn’t have any effect of my life, so I wish them the best and hope that they can both equally raise Tripp in a loving, nurturing environment.
I don’t see why people use this as an attack on Sarah Palin, but then again people will use any excuse to insult her. But who is Sarah Palin to you? She’s not an elected official and hasn’t even said anything about running in 2012. If people think she is so horrible and unintelligent, then they shouldn’t even waste their time talking about her. End of story!

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- so done with this
  Wed 07/14/10 9:26 PM
  
  they can’t leave her alone. They are afraid. Very afraid. Look at how well their boy has worked out for them. Plenty to be afraid of there.
  
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  - Rich
    Sat 07/17/10 9:44 AM
    
    Their boy? Levi “Playgirl” Johnston? If I were Palin I’d be afraid of that kid as a son-in-law too.
  - Tic
    Sun 07/25/10 1:37 AM
    
    Afraid of him, or his gonorrhea/ genital warts?
- Ronnie1
  Wed 07/14/10 9:48 PM
  
  Oh, please…really? People talk about Palin because they’re interested…like they’re “interested” in Kate Gosselin…Octomom.. or any other media grabbin’ person out there…
  
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Casey
Wed 07/14/10 9:16 PM

The Blue Lagoon

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