There are so many reasons I have movies on my mind today. The first one is that a group of folks on Facebook that grew up in my neighborhood started reminiscing about what was our neighborhood theater as kids. When my family moved out to this house in 1957, the nearest theaters were drive-ins on N. Post Oak and Hempstead Highway. Both gone now. "Dress up" movies meant going in to Houston proper to the theater on Shepherd (now a Trader Joe's) or the one in Rice Village or in River Oaks. So we were excited when we got an indoor theater within walking distance (1.2 miles). Walk is what we kids did too -- on Saturday mornings, and Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas afternoons, when the adults wanted to talk uninterrupted by kids. Occasionally on weekday afternoons if our homework was done and something good was playing.
The second reason is that World Market is having a Movie Night Giveaway Sweepstakes, featuring Outdoor/Backyard Movie Parties. I have been having a grand time thinking about how much fun our Fourth of July parties would have been if we could have closed them out with one of these.
What's a movie without food, right? Juicy grilled burgers at the drive-in, and of course popcorn and candy at the indoor theaters. In my pursuit of the perfect Movie Night popcorn, I came to tears when I discovered PopFamily, a Beaumont, Tx company run by a veteran and his wife with a flavor to make everyone happy. Even at 7:15 am on a Sunday morning, I am drooling over the idea of Chocolate Coconut Almond Supreme, cause my favorite thing at the Oak Village 52 years ago was to take a bite of my Almond Joy and then cram as much hot, buttered popcorn as possible into my mouth and let all the flavors swirl together. My second favorite was those flat round caramel marshmallow candies -- Bullseyes! Third was Rolos.
The third reason is that movies, like books, have shaped my world views and perspectives. sparked my imagination, explained human emotions, and modeled behaviors. I remember when a neighbor was scandalized that my mother had taken us at our tender ages (I think I was 10 or 11) to see Cleopatra with its daring midriff costumes and infidelity and use of sexuality to manipulate the powerful. Oh please! I'd been running around in little crop top and short sets for years, and so had most of the little girls in the neighborhood. What I learned from that movie? Using your sexuality to get favors and power is an asp that will bite you in the end. Then there was Pollyanna, which taught me to look at the bright side of life, even when most of it was dark. Surprisingly to perhaps many adults of the time, what I learned from The Yellow Submarine & the other Beatles movies was not that drugs were ok to do, but that they made you lose touch with reality. I could go on and on. The point is that kids don't always learn the things you fear they will, especially if they have learned good values at home.
So if Win the Movie Night Giveaway, what movies would top my list? Now there's a question I need to ponder with a giant Cherry Coke and a sleeve of Jalapeno Cheese popcorn!
The second reason is that World Market is having a Movie Night Giveaway Sweepstakes, featuring Outdoor/Backyard Movie Parties. I have been having a grand time thinking about how much fun our Fourth of July parties would have been if we could have closed them out with one of these.
What's a movie without food, right? Juicy grilled burgers at the drive-in, and of course popcorn and candy at the indoor theaters. In my pursuit of the perfect Movie Night popcorn, I came to tears when I discovered PopFamily, a Beaumont, Tx company run by a veteran and his wife with a flavor to make everyone happy. Even at 7:15 am on a Sunday morning, I am drooling over the idea of Chocolate Coconut Almond Supreme, cause my favorite thing at the Oak Village 52 years ago was to take a bite of my Almond Joy and then cram as much hot, buttered popcorn as possible into my mouth and let all the flavors swirl together. My second favorite was those flat round caramel marshmallow candies -- Bullseyes! Third was Rolos.
The third reason is that movies, like books, have shaped my world views and perspectives. sparked my imagination, explained human emotions, and modeled behaviors. I remember when a neighbor was scandalized that my mother had taken us at our tender ages (I think I was 10 or 11) to see Cleopatra with its daring midriff costumes and infidelity and use of sexuality to manipulate the powerful. Oh please! I'd been running around in little crop top and short sets for years, and so had most of the little girls in the neighborhood. What I learned from that movie? Using your sexuality to get favors and power is an asp that will bite you in the end. Then there was Pollyanna, which taught me to look at the bright side of life, even when most of it was dark. Surprisingly to perhaps many adults of the time, what I learned from The Yellow Submarine & the other Beatles movies was not that drugs were ok to do, but that they made you lose touch with reality. I could go on and on. The point is that kids don't always learn the things you fear they will, especially if they have learned good values at home.
So if Win the Movie Night Giveaway, what movies would top my list? Now there's a question I need to ponder with a giant Cherry Coke and a sleeve of Jalapeno Cheese popcorn!
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