RIP, Penny. You brought much laughter to my mom while she was alive. That certainly is a precious gift as @e_blazer mentioned in an earlier post.
The movie's line "There's no crying in baseball." was voted as the #54 greatest movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
Since the movie was about female players, they probably never did have that lovely experience, e_blazer. Men are so fragile.
While at Knotts Berry Farm this past week, one of the gift shops was selling a bunch of Zoltar Christmas ornaments. I was thisclose to buying one, but restrained myself. Now I regret my lack of purchase.
It’s true. I’ll never understand why evolution didn’t provide males with a cup. Happy holidays, crandc!
When I was in college I took an "Experimental College" class in Tai Kwon Doe. My instructor taught us what to do when hit in the balls. It was one of the first things he taught us. Apparently, when hitting and kicking someone there are times when the object of a dispute gets hit in the balls. True fact.
In classical ballet, sometimes the woman stands in front of her male partner doing pirouettes on one leg, other leg bent at the knee. Male ballet students quickly learn the correct distance to stand behind their partner.
How would you know so much about an art form that seemingly only women understand? Edit: Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I've taken my wife to more than one ballet. My father, a brick layer, was also a fan of ballet so don't take me to serious even though I can understand how you could easily think I'm a boor on the subject. One of my favorite musical selections just happens to be "Swan Lake" which brought tears to my eyes when I was younger. Haven't seen that offered lately but we did go see "The Nutcracker Suite" which mesmerized my wife. Oh, and the music wasn't half bad, either.
I have never seen any of her movies, or even one minute of Laverne and Shirley. I must admit that in the 80s I did see a few minutes of Butthead and Beavis. Now THAT represents late 70s/80s culture. Never saw even a few seconds of Max Headroom. But I have read for many years articles mentioning all of those children's classics, so I feel I know something about the decade in which Johnny Carson-style nightlife skidded to a stop for years before finally dying. It was a sad decade as the sexual revolution died, all liberals in the media became paranoid to speak freely, and the powers-that-be crowned feminism as the dominant paradigm.
Getting off topic, but I've had San Francisco Ballet season tickets for many years and take adult ballet class.
I could never stand Laverne and Shirley. However, these are new times and I welcome women's rights as they pertain to equal rights. Sometimes it's a little difficult to adjust to but I try.
San Francisco is a great place for the ballet. I once took my wife to see the Bolshoi. I've had trouble relating to ballet just like I've had trouble relating to art but I do continuously try because I know there's something there and for some reason I just don't fully understand it. One painting struck my eye during my first term in college so I bought a print. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet. Don't know why I liked it but I did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Bergère
No. Just started the class a few months ago when I retired, last took ballet when I was about five. Not yet ready to perform.
