I imagine Kevin Sumlin's pool boy is pretty ticked off today. I wouldn't call you guys angry; I've seen angry. Frustrated? By all means. Like a good book, that movie—specifically the writing—is an all time classic. I happened to run across it this past weekend and that probably makes the...geez, 10th time it's been watched.
"The Wizard of Oz" is a favorite of my daughters' (in fact, it's in the theaters this Sunday, and my daughters are insisting on seeing it on the big screen.) I took my 13-year-old to see "Gone With the Wind" and "It's a Wonderful Life" on the big screen in the past couple of months (the Cinemark theater near our house runs classic films every Sunday and Wednesday--so any time the girls see one advertised they'd like to see, we go.) With that in mind, I ordered some classic films I liked when I was a kid off of Amazon last month to watch with my girls: "The Best Years of Our Lives" (post-WWII drama about 3 soldiers trying to fit back into their former lives after returning from to war to a changed America) "Stella Dallas" (a 1938 or 1939 film starring Barbara Stanwyck as a trampy sort of girl who marries "up," but ultimately gives up her daughter to the father after her lifestyle is not conducive to raising a "society" child.) "The Pride of the Yankees" (the Lou Gehrig story starring Gary Cooper) "The Greatest Show on Earth" (starring Jimmy Stewart and Charleton Heston, follows a season in the Ringling Brothers circus. It's a Cecil B. DeMille film, and even my 10-year-old loved it, after saying she wasn't interested at first.) My parents always showed me classic films (probably because they didn't like any "new" ones when I was growing up. Regardless, I developed a strong appreciation for the genre, and my girls like the films, too--even loving that they now catch random references and allusions to some of the well-known films in movies they watch today. I am different from my parents, in that, I don't reject new films as garbage, so my girls go to both with me and know how to discriminate pretty well. The old movies, however, serve as a terrific historical lesson for the them to see how people talked and lived long before they were born. The women had a very affected way that they spoke and carried themselves, for instance. Or the fact that most everyone smoked, etc. They even found the way that Snow White sang in the original Disney movie to be ridiculous, as the standards for a good voice and beauty have changed so drastically since the 1930's.
That's actually a pretty funny story, the only reason a Pool Boy should ever get fired is for servicing more than the pool, I mean how hard can balancing a little PH be? I absolutely love your dedication to this response, heart of a champion right there! I'm going to see if I can watch every one of these on Netflix or somewhere.....thanks Stace!
A great movie, Babe Ruth played himself in that movie. One I caught a few months back, they made a remake in 1994....Angels in the Outfield.......... http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/64328/Angels-in-the-Outfield-Original-Trailer-.html
No, he's just an Algiers knucklehead. He was bully at Karr and wanted to fight East Jefferson players when Karr lost the 4A championship two years ago.
