Chat in the afternoon
At long last, the Met Saturday afternoon broadcasts begin again today with Don Carlo at 12:30 PM. What better way to spend a lazy winter afternoon than with Margaret, Ira, and a chat in La Casa della Cieca?
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Ah!The days when they made silly ‘cradle snatching’ romance comedy movies with wrinkly geriatric stars and pretty young things. That situation was hilarious in itself. A worst example by implication alone: would we ever see a movie today like Gigi with a Chevalier singing about ‘Thank Heavens for Little Girls’?
Things haven’t changed at all. Adam Sandler is about 50 now and he is consistently cast in romantic comedies with women who are in their very early twenties (young enough to literally be his daughter). Same goes for pretty much every leading man in Hollywood these days. Nothing has changed at all.
Agreed. But Sandler– his populatrity an enduring mystery to me- is 44.
Listening to Wagner from La Scala. Wishing I had gone to the movie.
I think the point of Thank Heaven for Little Girls is that an urbane man of the world is looking in delight at all the women in the world, not that he’s lusting after Gigi or any other little girl. The point becomes more obvious in his duet with Hermione Gingold which reveals his lasting affection for her and in the joyous I’m So Glad That I’m Not Young Any More!
Though a song with that ‘…Little Girls’ title , to be sung today- it would have to clearly shown what context, it was being used. Imagine some young guy (not some perceived ‘reflecting back’ grandpa figure) decided to get up and sing that song. Sneering and query of some sort, would be the very first reaction.
We all are no longer naive about that inferred sense of attraction- suggested alone by the song’s title. As you say, that other song ‘Im So Glad That I’m Not Young Any More’ plus ‘I Remember It Well’- do dispel any ‘under age lusting’ suggested by the very first…… one starts to now wonder whether these latter mentioned two songs were placed as a ‘counter-balance’. This was still a time (late 50′s)when some songs’ lyrics were sanitized by the time they got to Hollywood after thy left Broadway. Pajama Game and Kiss Me Kate are just two of the shows that that, happened to.
I stand corrected. However, he’s made enough boring lame ass movies that it seems he must be at least 50 years old. And his female costars are STILL young enough to be his children.