This weekend, our buddies hosted a film viewing of Newsies…
The 1992 musical — starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Doogie Howser’s greatest buddy — follows a bunch of teenage newsies who arrange their very own union to allow them to stand as much as the “muckety-mucks,” aka newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer and his henchmen.
I used to be excited to point out the film to my very own boys, ages 12 and 15, as a result of I ADORED THIS MOVIE at their age. “I like Newsies and I take it very critically,” wrote The New Yorker’s Hannah Goldfield, who’s youthful than I’m but in addition watched the film on repeat all through her childhood. “The characters are fascinating and complicated, and the forged is all-star.” However, apart from the dancing and singing and punches and kissing, have you learnt the rationale I keep in mind it most? It was my greatest buddy’s sexual awakening. She fell hook, line, and sinker for Christian Bale, talked about him continuous for a 12 months afterward, and nonetheless credit the film for kickstarting her romantic yearnings.
Interested in different ladies I knew, I requested buddy Izzy if there was a personality who opened her eyes to the world of affection and lust. “Mine was Robin Hood, the Disney cartoon,” she informed me, laughing, “adopted intently by Westley in The Princess Bride.”
And one other buddy named Keanu Reeves in Pace. “Midway by that film,” she stated, “I grew to become a lady.”
So, now I’m curious: Did you may have a TV/film sexual awakening? Or teenage superstar crush? I can inform you my post-divorce re-awakening: Soiled Dancing after I lastly noticed it in 2024. Gahhhh.
Replace: Omg our beloved contributor Kelsey Miller simply texted me, “I additionally take Newsies very critically,” together with this outdated Halloween photograph of her daughter!
P.S. An “I Can’t Consider You’ve By no means Seen That!” film night time, sex-positive parenting for prudes, and the way did you study intercourse rising up?
