Parents, let me tell you, get out there and take your children to see some great kids’ movies at the Walker’s Summer Movies and Music. Bringing Up Baby? Undoubtedly a masterpiece of childlike humor. Our twelve-year old charge was thoroughly enthralled, giggling uncontrollably, and falling over herself over Baby, the leopard that bites at Cary Grant’s heels. Then there’s George, the dog who runs off with Grant’s precious dinosaur bone and… well, the laughs were never-ending. Then there were the little girls sitting behind us who kept imitating Kate Hepburn’s warbling “heh, heh, heh” and the soft way she sings “David, you can’t go anywhere without your clothes!”
Same thing goes for the forthcoming Adam’s Rib and Philadelphia Story: to heck with Barnyard, Cars, and Pirates–take your kids to the park for some real movies. Please!
Tonight at the fine Cinema Slop (in the basement tavern Dinkytowner): Poor Cow, the excellent 1967 Ken Loach film about a beleaguered mother fighting poverty and her deadbeat boyfriend. Look for the scenes with Terrence Stamp’s louse which were utilized in Stephen Soderbergh’s The Limey, also starring Stamp, as a flashback.
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