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RUSH: A couple of weeks ago, some friends of mine came by and screened a movie for me called Henry Poole is Here. It stars Luke Wilson and some other people. I sat there and watched it, and it started out, and I thought, ‘This is going to be boring as hell. Why can\u2019t they bring me some shoot-\u2019em-up action flick?\u2019 I couldn\u2019t take my attention away from it. I kept watching it and watching it and watching it, and finally it was over, and I had not looked at my watch once, and I said, ‘I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen anything quite like this, particularly coming out of Hollywood.\u2019 It opens today, and I don\u2019t want to give too much of this away, but Luke Wilson stars as a guy who has been given a fatal diagnosis of some unnamed disease, and so he\u2019s all depressed and he\u2019s lost faith in everything. He\u2019s not married. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s just lost faith in virtually everything in life. So he buys this little run-down house in a middle-American neighborhood in an unnamed city (it looks like it\u2019s Los Angeles to me, but I can\u2019t tell; it doesn\u2019t matter) and the neighbors start showing up, bringing him cookies and so forth. He\u2019s not interested. He\u2019s nice to them, but he couldn\u2019t care less. All he wants to do is say thanks and kick \u2019em out and get \u2019em on their way. He just wants to sit there and sulk. One afternoon he notices that the neighbor that brought him cookies is out back staring at one of the walls on the back of his house. So he walks out there and asks, ‘What you are looking at?\u2019 She\u2019s in awe. She\u2019s shaking. The camera pans, and it\u2019s just a blank wall. <\/p>\n

She says, ‘The face of the Lord is on your wall,\u2019 and this drives him nuts. <\/p>\n

He says, ‘Oh, no. Now I got a kook for a next-door neighbor.\u2019 He says, ‘It\u2019s nothing but a water stain. There\u2019s nothing there but a water stain. Please leave me alone.\u2019 <\/p>\n

She goes and gets the priest from her church to come out and look at this. The guy discovers the priest and the next-door neighbor looking at the wall. <\/p>\n

He goes out, ‘What\u2019s going on? This is my property. There\u2019s nothing there. It\u2019s a water stain on a wall, Father, get outta here. I don\u2019t want to have anything to do with this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The priest is not so sure \u2019cause he\u2019s a got a member of his flock there. The neighbor starts bringing neighbors, and other people, and there\u2019s a line of people outside this guy\u2019s house to look at this supposed picture. By the way, it bleeds. There\u2019s a little drop of blood that bleeds. Well, they don\u2019t know it\u2019s blood. They have to test to see if it\u2019s blood, but there\u2019s a little drop of red substance that comes out of the side of the wall. He just goes nuts, and continues to go nuts. He tries to be patient with these people but eventually he loses his mind, he takes an ax — and, by the way, there\u2019s some people who touch the wall. They end up touching the wall, touching what they think is the face of the Lord., and some of them have miraculous things happen to them, and he\u2019s not buying that \u2019cause he\u2019s lost all faith, \u2019cause he\u2019s just been diagnosed with a fatal disease that\u2019s unnamed. <\/p>\n

So finally he loses it. He grabs an ax or something and just chops the wall down, which threatens to cave in the whole back of his house. And these people are standing around there watching, and they\u2019re crying. They can\u2019t believe that he would do this. They don\u2019t know he\u2019s got a fatal disease; he doesn\u2019t tell anybody this. To them he\u2019s just some, you know, odd depressed guy that lives among them. He\u2019s not a threat to anybody, but got this thing on the side of his house. So he finally just takes this ax and chops the thing down. The whole back end of his house almost falls in. It does fall in on him, the roof does, and he ends up touching the wall, pieces of the wall after he has destroyed it. And he goes in for his medical checkup, some few days later, and is told that he has no trace of the fatal disease. <\/p>\n

(interruption) Well, Dawn said, ‘You\u2019re telling us the whole movie.\u2019 I am, but I\u2019m not. I know where my syllables are going. I\u2019m host, and you\u2019re the stenographer. So he goes and he gets his medical treatment and checkup. ‘You don\u2019t have the disease. You\u2019re clean. You\u2019re clear,\u2019 and then he gets friendly with one of the neighbors. He has sort of like a girlfriend-type relationship with another one of the neighborhoods as the movie progresses, and there\u2019s a very key line at the end of the movie which I\u2019m not going to tell you. But what it does, is it allows the viewer to come to any conclusion about this that the viewer wants, either that it was the face of the Lord or that it was something else. But Henry Poole has his faith restored, regardless, whatever the truth of the wall was.<\/p>\n

The truth of the wall is never stated. You\u2019re allowed as the viewer to attach whatever you want to it. The director was one of the guys who came and screened this for me. Mark Pellington is his name. By the way, his dad played in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, and I said, ‘How do you get this done in Hollywood? How do you get a guy like Luke Wilson to do this? That\u2019s movie about religion, perhaps, God, miraculous. How does this happen?\u2019 And he said, ‘Well, Luke Wilson, we actually asked a lot of people to do it.\u2019 Luke Wilson is the whole movie, and it\u2019s not a comedy. Everybody in this movie is comedians but it\u2019s not a comedy, and he\u2019s in every scene of the movie and he said, Pellington, told me, that some of the actors they asked didn\u2019t want to carry the whole load \u2019cause there\u2019s romance, there\u2019s sadness, all these emotions.<\/p>\n

But Pellington had lost his wife to a disease, and his faith in things was down in the dumps as well. He has a surviving child, so this movie was sort of cathartic and therapeutic for them. I was stunned by it simply because it\u2019s not the kind of thing that you expect. I was expecting the whole thing for this whole situation of the wall and the Lord and the people that believed in all that to be made the biggest fools Hollywood could think to make of it, and that\u2019s not what happened. I have left a lot out of this. (interruption) Yes, I have, Dawn. I have left a lot out of this. It opens today, I think. It\u2019s not everywhere. They\u2019re trying to get it in a lot of theaters. There are like 600 theaters. It\u2019s Luke Wilson. It\u2019s called Henry Poole is Here — and just trust me, Dawn, there\u2019s a lot I haven\u2019t put in there. It\u2019s not a preacher movie. It\u2019s not that. You\u2019ll see, if you take the time to go see it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, continuing to suffer abuse over my recitation of the movie Henry Poole is Here. ‘But, Rush! But, Rush! You told us how it ends. You told us everything.\u2019 I did not! Besides that: Everybody who went to see the movie Titanic knew damn well the boat was going to sink and people were going to die before they went into the theater. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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