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What is it about musicals?
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What is it about musicals?
  They're not the kind of entertainment that I would choose first to watch on television, but I found myself captured by several musicals on Sunday. Among the DVDs that Susan chose to play were "Mary Poppins" and the concert version of "Sweeney Todd"—kind of wild mood swings, but both captivating in their own way. In fact, I found it hard to work on the Journal because my computer is in the living room.  I guess the tentative aversion to musicals is a guy thing, at least for many guys, but given a choice I prefer movies with lots of action and things that explode. A recently watched movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" is a perfect example. The action was almost beginning to end, and the explosions were some of the coolest I'd ever seen. I'm not the only one in the household who likes a good action flick. Susan will almost always join me in watching any of the "Die Hard" movies.  There comes a point when our television viewing runs into a bit of a conflict. Susan likes to watch The Food Channel on weekdays, when she's not busy working on The Journal. Most of the time she's watching it, I'm out taking pictures or selling ads, but when I make it home for lunch, or have more to do at home than outside the house, it really drags on for me. The problem is, of course, they don't have any recipes that explode, or even many that catch fire. An occasional splash of brandy flares up, but the cook almost always escapes with not so much as singed eyebrows. It's hard to complain. Even though Susan has always been a good cook, she's picked up a lot of tips, and dinnertime around the Last Homely House has definitely improved. She's even made the adjustment to using red flake pepper in lots of her recipes. Talk about "Bam.”  But "Bam" isn’t the same as a good train wreck or plane crash.  One of my dreams has been to bring a little diversity to those lame cable consumer-oriented shows by starting my own product-testing show. At the end of the show, the products that didn't make the grade would be, I'm sure you've guessed it by now, blown to smithereens. It would get really interesting if we had a couple of cars or trucks to review. Back to musicals: I guess I'm not the only guy who can enjoy the timelessness of “Mary Poppins,” but would like it more if a couple of things blew up. Perhaps someday someone will marry the two genres and produce the crowd-pleasing, "Mary Poppins Dies Hard.”   |
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