Million Dollar Movie and CBS’s The Late Show** had totally schooled me on Hollywood’s 1930s and ‘40s hotshots. I knew who Jimmy Cagney was…Pat O’Brien, Errol Flynn, King Kong, Godzilla, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy…I knew them all cold.
And this kid doesn’t know Brad Pitt?
Wait…should I trust a woman who lacks the discipline to properly structure a sentence? “If anyone needs me I’ll be slurping apple sauce at the senior center”…easy.
** My paternal grandparents let me watch The Late Show (11:30 pm) when I stayed with them on weekends. No “off to bed” restrictions. Stay up as late as you want. Plenty of cake, cookies and ice cream.
I would listen to them (Jim and Evelyn) bicker all the time. Pop–Pop Wells refrain: “Jeffrey, don’t ever get married.”