Although Southpoint is still listing on their Web site $3 tickets for seniors on Mondays and Thursday (all day), I see an ad in today R-J’s Neon section that tells about a new senior offer: “$3 Senior Ticket with Club Card – Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays, until 6 PM (ends July 31).” 

I’m not sure which promotion will be valid on Monday, June 30, but if you go before 6 p.m., it won’t matter. You might want to call to see about after 6 p.m. that day. For what it’s worth, in the past they often didn’t question your age if you “looked old” and/or sometimes they gave the senior discount for those as young as 50 even though they said the “official senior age” was 65. (Hardly anyone asks me for ID anymore to prove my senior status – that’s a little depressing!) 

The Coast Casinos also has an ad in today’s Neon for the 3 of their casinos that have theaters: Sam’s Town, Suncoast, and the Orleans. Tuesday is Senior Discount Day – all tickets are $3 for those who are at least 60. You must show ID and a Club Coast member card. 

 They also have a non-senior promotion. Wednesday is Free Popcorn Day. You get a free small bag of popcorn with each ticket purchased if you are at least 21 and can show ID and a Club Coast card. 

Both these Coast Casino offers run through August 28. As the ad says, “Turn off the air and head for the coolest entertainment in town.” 

Now if there was a really good movie showing that we really wanted to see. We just wasted our comps (although we did have a 2-for-1 coupon so it didn’t make much of a dent in our thousands of dollars worth of comps at the Palms) on “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.” I have liked Adam Sandler in some of his previous comedies and the previews had looked like it would make for a light but amusing afternoon break from video poker. Brad, who says he is the ultimate movie critic, fell asleep in the first five minutes. I am not that relaxed a person and I always try to keep the faith that a movie will get better. But it turned into an absolute horror film for me, reminding me of the days I was substituting in junior high and trying to teach English to adolescent boys who had dropped out of the human race. I’m not a prude but there is a limit to seeing humor in storytelling that revolves around bodily functions. 

Brad says he would like to relive his comic book youth and see “The Incredible Hulk.”   I may send him to watch that alone; I’m still trying to get over Zohan.

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