Sometimes with all the bad moods and boondoggles, it's hard to remember that Mayor Bloomberg is just a humble billionaire in Bermuda shorts like the rest of us. And he's got his own daydreams to help him while away the last days of his third term. With him running a temperature due to Giants Super Bowl fever, Bloomberg revealed one of those fantasies on his radio show this morning: he thinks about coming back to Earth in a second life as a quarterback, ala Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait. Well, it's certainly better than coming back as this guy.
"You remember that great movie, Heaven Can Wait? That was me, Walter Mitty, Warren Beatty," Bloomberg said this morning. "Wouldn't that be wonderful? They don't expect anything. You get out there, make a deal with a lineman—just block me once and then you serve that great pass. I remember in the movie a guy says, 'I think we've got ourselves a quarterback.'" In case you're not familiar with the film, Beatty plays a quarterback hoping to lead his team to the Super Bowl, who gets sent to heaven by an ambitious angel, only to be brought back in the body of an aging millionaire.
So what Bloomberg really wants is a reverse Heaven Can Wait scenario, unless he wants to go all the way with the film's plot, and suddenly find himself inhabiting the body of Giants backup QB David Carr on Sunday with no memory of his billionaire past. Bloomberg, who wrote blue all day today as he helped re-christen Upper East Side Bar Brady's as "Manning's," also had this to tidbit of wisdom to say about Giants players: "[they] have the same interests and fears like everybody else." Which isn't exactly true: we personally aren't that afraid of an NFL linebacker pummeling our brains, nor are we that interested in getting ass tattoos of our favorite players.
