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Today is WWdN's fifth birthday. To celebrate, I break my self-imposed week-long silence and offer the following scene from my living room, last night:

Anne and I played Scene It? which is an insanely fun game in the style of Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture Edition, Cranium, etc.

One of the features in Scene It? is the DVD challenge, where you watch a scene from a movie, then answer a question about the scene you just watched. If you answer correctly, you take another turn, otherwise, your turn is over.

We were only a few turns into our second game, and I was about ten spaces ahead of Anne, mostly due to my awesome supernatural ability to identify the title of a movie after just one or two letters appear on the screen. On Golden Pond? Waiting to Exhale? I own you bitches.

Anyway, I got the DVD challenge thing, hit play, and Stand By Me came up.

"Dude!" Anne said, "That's such fucking bullshit! You get your own movie?!"

"I'd better get this right," I said, "or I'm automatically forfeiting the game."

I looked up at the TV. Jerry O'Connell and I ran across the train trestle, and I recalled how insanely scared I was when we filmed that scene -- not because the train was close to us (it wasn't) but Jerry and I were having a hard time acting scared. After several unacceptable takes,  Rob screamed at us, "Goddammit, you're ruining my movie! You guys better stop joking around and get scared, because if that train doesn't kill you, I will!"

Jerry and I instantly burst into tears, because Rob never raised his voice at us. My mom tells me that right after Rob saw us start to cry, he turned to the first AD and quietly said, "Roll camera."

We raced down the tracks, tears streaming down our faces, and right past the camera into Rob's arms where he hugged us and thanked us for a great take.

"Print that," he said. "Good job, you guys. I'm sorry I yelled at you."

The scene ended, and the question popped up on the screen: "Who Narrates This Movie?"

"Ha. I totally know this," I said. "Richard Dreyfuss."

"That is so unfair," Anne said.

"Yeah," I said. "It's totally rigged. Now give me the dice."

My moment of glory was short-lived. Though I won that game, Anne eventually defeated me 3-2.

And now, back to vacation . . .

Comments

[shauna]

Haha!! That's funny. Dude, I think I have side with Anne on this one. Somehow, you rigged the game to give you your own movie. The whole scene is hilarious, though, so I think it can be forgiven. :P

Anyway, Happy Anniversary. Here's to 5 more years!

Shauna

[Syndelin]

What are the odds? LOL

Happy fifth bday to WWdN!

I hope you're enjoying your break, and your time with Anne. =)

[shrednfred]

Dude, I remember you first told me about WWDN at ComicCon way back when. I've been checking in almost daily ever since. Didn't realize until now that was 5 years ago. HAWESOME!!! Happy 5th Bday blog!!

[Stephen J.]

hahah I think real fear is playing a game with yer wife that she has no hope of winning ;)

Congrats on 5 years.

We miss RFB ;)

Sticky

[James Casey]

Happy birthday WWDN. Been a great ride so far for so many.

[Jenn M.]

Too funny! Good thing you got that right, you would have looked pretty foolish. Happy B-day wwdn. I'm new to the site, but I'll be back for plenty more birthdays :)

[cryssyer]

I call for a recount! Uh, sorry, wrong competition... Anne had every right to gripe. But, she still showed you in the end :)

Happy Birthday WWdN! Live long and prosper.....sorry, couldn't resist....

[Kornham]

I think you like it when your family whips your butt.

[volcanicglass]

Wil, just wanted to say two things:
a) I finally bought "Just a Geek," finished it in about two days, and just wanted to say that it was great and I'll happily read anything you put out!
b) happy 5th bday WWdN!

[Pookie]

Best Regards to five wonderful years.

~~Pookie

[Pookie]

Oh, and by the way I am having such a stupendously no good very bad horrible day and your today story about "Scene It" totally made my ENTIRE day better.

Thanks a million.

~P~

[Aja]

I just saw Toy Soldiers for the first time ever, and I have to say, I can't BELIEVE what happened. I won't say what it is just in case there are people here who have not seen it, but I hope you know what I'm talking about. SO SAD! You didn't even go to share the glory!

[denovan]

Wil,

A short while ago, my wife Alexandra travelled to Montreal, Quebec to attend your book signing at Melange Magique.

A couple of weeks ago, a grabbed your book, Just A Geek, as an afterthought on the way out the door as we headed for the yearly week of family vacation at the cottage. I ended up consuming my William Gibson novel in under 2 days, so I picked up your book to see what the fuss was all about.

I opened the cover and read the autograph...

"To Alex & Emily:

Get your geek on!

Wil Wheaton"

"unh hunh...." I thought to myself. "Let's see what the geek has to say for himself."

Well, sir...

I couldn't put it down. It told me you were NOT the smarmy git as I had so very mistakenly thought of you over the years - on the contrary, you were a *very* human homosapien. So, allow me to apologize for having a had very skewed opinion of you. This is now, very happily, no longer the case.

At any rate, the reason I'm here today is to bring you this littyle gem that came to my attention this morning. I thought you might find it of interest:

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/08/where-defendant-wiped-hard-drive-in.html

It would seem a Texas judge awarded a summary judgement in favour of RIAA because RIAA claims that the target of lawsuit wiped their drive and that's why they (the RIAA) has no evidence in favour of their claims.

Have a great day, Wil!

A new fan,

Sean.

[denovan]

Wil,

Whups! Seems like my keyboard has taken a vacation from reality. Apologies...

Let's try this again, now that I have a new keyboard:

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/08/
where-defendant-wiped-hard-drive-in.html

There - that seems better!

~Sean.

[Becky..Absent Minded Housewife]

So...are you kinda miffed that you didn't grow up sounding like Richard Dreyfus? I know I wish I could sound like the guy.

Happy Anniversary. (Today is my 13th anniversary. Not blogging, marriage.)

[Bev]

Happy Anniversary Wil! I hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have.

I love the peaks you give us into your life and they way you describe things. Thanks for sharing these amazing tidbits.

Btw, Anne's right...It was totally rigged.

[MistyB78]

WARNING: -
Never Read This Blog, while
eating, drinking especially, or otherwise with any foodstuffs in your mouth. If so, you do at your own risk!!

ENJOY!!

Happy 5th WWdN!

[R]

Happy 5 years, Wil!

I got a good chuckle out of this story--and it's a post that brings together so much of what's awesome about WWdN. Keep it up and we'll all be here for another 5 :)

[FABIAN]

Wil,
I had an acting teacher, who did the same kinds of things your director did. A great director or teacher seems to get the job done, most of the time. It was a great scene and I am glad you survived.

FG

[d. burr]

Cool story...And I want to say thank you for 5 years of great stuff on WWDN...I'm continually amazed by the way you work so hard to make your posts such a fun and easy read.

[D. Todd Erickson]

Dick Dreyfuss has a brother that sounds just like him that does alot of voice work too.

If you want a little more of a challenge, check out the TCM edition of SceneIt.
dte
plan4.blogspot.com

[jbay]

hahaha

rawk

[petervogel]

Not really something they would write a rule to cover. Awesome.

Happy Fifth Anniversary.

[VeronicaRobinson]

Our friends and us play that every time we get together and I get that question every time too. The first time it was what you all were going to see. The second was just, what movie was it...or something like that. It's a fun game, until you memorize all the answers. Then it gets a little boring. I'm begging the Photogenic Hottie for the Harry Potter version because then I would totally kick ass!! and actually when at a game. You see, me and games don't get along. I suck but if it were me and Mr. You're-Too-Young-To-Be-That-Hot Potter were teamed up, I could totally win. Stacked deck? Whatever. Quit your bitchin' and roll.

Happy Birthday.

[EmFul71]

First of all, Happy Aniversery WWDN!

My roomate & I have the scene game & we actually came across "Stand By Me" one time, they used the same scene w/ the train & everything, but there was a different question. Maybe there's more so you might luck out again the next time you & Anne play.

Emily