Now Playing at Golden Paddles Village

Before my weekly passage from Press The Button, BREAKING NEWS:

In my never ending quest to see if the Hallmark Channel has run out of movies with the word Christmas in the title, I stumbled across a real made for TV movie called: A Pickleball Christmas.

I watched a bit of it, and can honestly say it is the best Pickleball themed holiday movie I've ever seen. 

When Cassidy Winters, a small town girl who left to become a big deal real estate agent in Chicago returns home to help her grandmother who broke her hip while playing pickleball at Golden Paddles Village, complications arise.

​Cassidy's old high school flame, Luke Marlowe, stuck around and is now a gym teacher and pickleball entrepreneur. Could romance be rekindled under the watchful eyes of the geriatric pickleball ladies?

Really? Yeah really. 

​I'm not making this up. I am not capable of making this up. Golden Paddles Village?
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And here's an excerpt from Press The Button that would not make a Hallmark movie:

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The December Roll Call
 
I do a lot of jokes about dying.
It’s my defense mechanism.
Some guys yell.
Some guys drink.
Me?

I make celebrity death my hobby.
Keeps me busy.
It’s too cold now for golf.
And it’s the end of the year, which means one thing--
the big They Died This Year montage of celebrity obituaries.
 
Every year I’m sitting there thinking,
“Wait… this guy was alive?
Since when?”
 
They start with the big names--
movie stars, athletes, celebrity felons.
But once they run out of those,
they start scraping the bottom of the pop-culture barrel.
 
Pretty soon it’s people you forgot ever existed.
Like Zippy Mitchell.
Remember him?
He played the bilge pump operator on The Love Boat.
A role so minor
they could’ve replaced him with an actual bilge pump
and nobody would’ve noticed.

And every time I see a name like that, I wonder--
How does a guy like that make a living
for the fifty years since that show ended?
Did he invest wisely?
Marry into a wealthy plumbing family?

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Thought: The term Golden Paddles Village should become a euphemism for the place celebrities go, who are, well, featured in the year end montage. As In: Coming up, immortal celebrities who are now playing eternally at Golden Paddles Village.

Remember: I write novels too. Darker, same voice, more bodies hit the floor. Stay tuned.


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