WORDS: The About Last Night weblog has [a great essay by regular columnist Our Girl in Chicago today](http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/archives20040111.shtml#66505) about the creation of Word Wars, a movie about competitve Scrabble and the people who play. She also talks about Spellbound, a movie I really want to see, which is about the kids participating in the National Spelling Bee and also mentions [Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CX9Z/mattorama) which is one of my top 5 favorite documentaries of all time, and I've seen **a lot** of documentaries. One of these days I'm going to rent Spellbound and I'm really hoping one of the small theaters in town gets Word Wars. I have serious doubts about the later but hope springs eternal. The new [Madstone](http://www.madstonetheaters.com/) theater here even got [Stone Reader](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00012YIE6/mattorama) (which was great if a little slow in places) which I never would have expected to see in the theaters.