Blue Truck, Red State: Tired Old Queen at the Movies: The Palm Beach Story

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Tired Old Queen at the Movies: The Palm Beach Story

Steve Hayes reviews the classic screwball comedy, which your Head Trucker highly recommends:

Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea have a field day in the zany Preston Sturges comedy PALM BEACH STORY (1942). With able support from such Sturges comic regulars as William Demarest, Jimmy Conlin, and Roscoe Ates, and with brilliant comedic turns by Rudee Vallee and Mary Astor, it’s a happy, slapstick free-for-all, loaded with sophisticated dialogue, unexpected reversals, and sexy innuendos. The perfect way to start the New Year off with a bang!

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Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu