This weekend, our mates hosted a film viewing of Newsies…
The 1992 musical — starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Doogie Howser’s greatest buddy — follows a gaggle of teenage newsies who manage 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 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, are you aware the explanation I bear 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 yr afterward, and nonetheless credit the film for kickstarting her romantic yearnings.
Interested by 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 advised me, laughing, “adopted carefully by Westley in The Princess Bride.”
And one other buddy named Keanu Reeves in Speed. “Midway via that film,” she stated, “I turned a girl.”
So, now I’m curious: Did you have got a TV/film sexual awakening? Or teenage movie star crush? I can let you know my post-divorce re-awakening: Dirty Dancing once 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 previous Halloween photograph of her daughter!
P.S. An “I Can’t Believe You’ve Never Seen That!” movie night, sex-positive parenting for prudes, and how did you learn about sex growing up?
