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This weekend was … lazy. Ahhhh, the summer months, when the air is warm, the senses dull, and the Dodgers are blowing yet another late inning game. As the weekend ended, we had homemade dinner (low-cal meatloaf and steamed veggies) as we watched a movie that had been sitting around for some time: Thoroughly Modern Millie.
As movies go, TMM was delightful! It was directed by George Roy Hill, the same director who brought us, among other great movies, the great teamwork of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in not one, but two GREAT GREAT movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. TMM is a musical with Julie Andrews (always one of my favs – post Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music), Mary Tyler Moore (pre-Mary Tyler Moore show), Carol Channing (how DID she get where she got, and how did she get to where she got without winning more awards!?), and a great great cast, including a mute Pat Morita and almost-mute Jack Soo in stereotypical parodies sure to make Mao roll over in his grave. For those of you who haven’t seen this movie, I’m not going to give it away.
If you like musicals, period pieces of the 20s, dancing, and a movie with a plot – rated G – with one semi-curse word in it that the title character, Mary Richards, in the Mary Tyler Moore would have never said, give TMM a shot. It felt like an old musical or even a Broadway musical that was made into a movie, but it wasn’t. It actually was a movie that was successful and was turned into a stage musical.
One more thing to do other than watch TV: watch an old movie on a Sunday night, relax with family with quality entertainment, before taking on the stresses of the world come Monday morning.
Life Without TV. For a happier world. For a happier you.
Everything is like a TV show? with commercials and a pilot? and a closing tagline?
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I know the answer to the quiz – can I play?
Life Without TV. For a happier world. For a happier you.
Nooooo! You have inside information! You can hold the envelope with the answer in it and parade it around the stage like you’re on a game show. Thanks for readng!
While that may be true, it’s not the answer we were looking for. I’m sorry. Please play again. Thanks for reading.
What are you talking about?!?!? I don’t have inside information. I only talk to you through this blog. I’m just like any other guy reading your blog.
Regardless, if it’s not that, what in the heck is it?