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My Life in the Movies
Like so many people, I love movies. As I was planning my schedule around watching the 95th Academy Awards show this past weekend, I thought back to how films have shaped my life over the years and my life in the movies.
Since my mother took me to see 101 Dalmations as my first time in a movie theater in 1961, I have been mesmerized by the big screen. She even took me back to see it a second time, and perhaps that was had I initially got hooked on going to the movies and getting wrapped up in the story that was unfolding in front of my eyes.
Two years later, The Incredible Journey was too sad for me to watch all the way through. We now had a television at home, so I settled into watching a few of my favorites… Lassie, The Addams Family (although I confused that family with The Munsters for some crazy reason), and Gilligan’s Island were among my faves, and I tolerated Gunsmoke and Bonanza when we had adult visitors. I wasn’t an easy child, and can remember crying on a Friday evening when we took friends to the airport to catch their flight and I missed that night’s episode of The Flintstones.
Then there was My Three Sons, and that’s the first time I can remember feeling like I wanted to be a part of the television family in my real life. I fantasized that my mother would meet someone like Fred McMurray’s character on that show, and that I would then have…
