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| This Moon Trailer was decorated to promote the movie - and trailer sales. |
We have found that the movie channels offer very little entertainment. Normally we rely on Turner Classic Movies, so we saw Laurel and Hardy at Oxford, a chain of unlikely but hilarious events.
We caught the end of "Lucy and the Long, Long Trailer", so we decided last night to go all out and rent it again. That may be the fifth time we have seen it together, still way behind "Bringing Up Baby," with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
My only question is - which scene is funniest in "Long, Long Trailer"? No matter how many times I have seen Lucy guide the trailer into the relatives' elaborate wooden trellis archway, I still double up laughing. The recipe is perfect - anxious relatives, overly helpful direction from Lucy, panic steering by Ricky, and collapsing structure - far worse than the destroyed roses.
Getting humor from the situation is peaked, we might say, when the driver's and passenger's faces are filled with dread, almost hiding it, as they climb the 8,000 feet of the mountain pass. When will the rock collection break loose? What about the dozens of jars of preserves from all over? My hands sweat when watching a trapeze artist on TV, so I identify with the diver and the passenger.
In real life, conquering fear is always a challenge. Most of the time we can avoid the situation. But this time, the entire world is involved in contradictory messages plus solutions to problems real and imagined. Based on the latest information, I expect the next week will be scary, dreadful, and thrilling. It will end in a genuine celebration on the Day of Epiphany. So I have added that to the list of evening services. See the masthead above.
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| January 6th, 7 PM Central. |
