Armageddon tired of wondering about this

 


My mother had good eye sight but she certainly didn’t have very good proper adult super vision at times.  The other night I watched Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner being movie stars - On the Beach - Australia, about submarines, nuclear annihilation, radioactive death, no hope for mankind, nada, zippo, zilch.  I saw it when it came out in 1959. I was nine and had no idea what the story was about but I got scared anyhoo. What was I doing in that theater?  Who was I with?  Is it possible I went to it without anyone knowing?  Most likely, my mom looked it up in the Legion of Decency and saw that it wasn’t condemned. Maybe she thought it was a sandy Annette and Frankie deal. Now its just one of those mysteries that’s as gone forever as my ancestor.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2023 at 12:10 PM

    My mother dropped me at theatre with my friend to see Psycho.
    And again, for Gypsy. How i learned about strippers

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2023 at 12:11 PM

    Fred Astaire was in it. What could go wrong?

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