Sometimes
I feel I was born in a movie theatre. I don't remember ever NOT going
to a movie and I think a lot of my thinking has come from watching
films. I believe "crime does not pay", "Happily Ever After", that
fireworks go off when you have sex,  that Natalie Wood proved there was a
Santa, that somewhere over the rainbow there is a world that accepts
every one.

I
fell in love with Doris Day watching/hearing her sing "It's Magic" in
"Romance On The High Seas" in 1948 and who could be sexier than Ava
Gardner spread out on a leopard rug to advertise "Mogambo". I could
dance like Fred Astaire, Gene Kelley, Dan Daily and Donald O'Conner
opposite Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charrise plus tap dancing with Ann Miller.
I'm walking into the Waldorf Astoria with Lana Turner on my arm and
looking out from Tara as Vivian Leigh worries about 'that' tomorrow. In
"Double Indemnity" Barbara Stanwyck is planning a murder while in
"Stella Dallas" she is standing outside in the snow watching her
daughter getting married as the tears roll down her cheeks. Joan
Crawford slapping Ann Blyth across the face and Bette Davis tells her
guests to fasten their seat belts while Marlon Brando, with a meat hook
in his hand, leads the men into the warehouse

In
my teens I would run out of school on a Tuesday to get to the RKO
Pelham or Globe theatre so I could see a double feature plus a cartoon,
coming attractions, a newsreel and a short feature and be home by 6 for
dinner. The theatres always changed their movies on Wednesday and I was
able to get there on Saturdays plus whenever my father was in town our
family went to the Loew's Paradise on the Grand Concourse on Sunday.
Some weeks I was seeing 6 movies a week which included every and any
classic you can think of plus a few more. I saw all the legendary movies
including many of the legendary movie stars some of you never heard of
like Janet Gaynor, Erroll Flynn, Leslie Howard, Betty Hutton, just to
name a few.

I
still am a huge movie fan going to a movie at least once a week,
sometimes two times. I go to movies like "Monster" and "Dreamgirls"
multiple times and I still fall in with actors like Jennifer Hudson and
Charlize Theron who I think gave one of the greatest performances of all
time in "Monster" and is absolutely beautiful.

I
believe movies should be seen on a movie screen in a movie theatre for
the first time and only on a TV screen, no matter how big, if you want
to see it a second time or it didn't play in a movie house near you.
There is quite a difference between a 60 inch TV screen and a 6 foot
movie screen. I know all the excuses for not going to the movies from
too expensive, too many people with cell phones, gum on the floor, have
to get dressed, get dirty looks when you talk as if you were in your
living room at home, etc. Sorry folks but with movie rewards, going to a
weekday matinee or evening performance, a movie is no more expensive
then renting or buying DVDs--and, again, you are seeing that movie on a
small screen!
No matter what I will always have time and money to go to a movie and "Live Happily Ever After"!