Jul. 28th, 2009

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Jul. 28th, 2009 11:06 am
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Next Friday, August 7, Oakland Paramount will be showing The Women and I'm thinking of going to see it, as I haven't seen it in 20-30 years (not that it wasn't shown enough on TV; mostly that I've been without that device for several years now, and I wasn't interested in my teens/early twenties--I did manage once to sit up to 3 am to see Grand Hotel, but didn't experience it as a movie until the '80s.  In a theater), and the remake did not exactly cover itself with glory.

The synopsis (I kept typing 'sysops' there.) contains the following sentence:  "This movie is so catty there should be a scratching post at the theatre's entrance!"

I expect funny clothes, stereotypes, and somewhat contemptuous attitudes toward women (Clare Boothe was satirizing; also something of a conservative; she married Henry Luce, who founded Time, and was an ambassador during a Republican administration).  I plan to be grateful that I live now and not then (for many reasons).

It may be that mere cattiness isn't all that funny anymore.

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