Annie
We were visiting at my mom’s tonight and Annie (1982) came on the TV. I remember seeing it in the movie theater with my mom, my friend, and her mom. I loved it and sang, “Tomorrow” probably for a week straight. Man, that must’ve been annoying to everyone else in the house. Hmmm…
Anyway, my oldest is just slightly younger now than I was when I first saw it, and I think she’s seen it at grandma’s before, so I thought it would be fun to sit and watch a bit of it with her. Wow, it is so completely different what you catch in a movie with a few decades of life’s observations behind you!
We couldn’t stay long enough to finish the whole thing, but the parts that I saw were as fun as I remembered. Carol Burnett was great, and I remember her character, Miss Hannigan, being as mean as I’d recalled, but who knew she was so risque. Yowza. And I didn’t remember Annie saying the word, “crap” when singing to poor, abused Sandy.
Of all the things money can buy these days, too bad a little of our childhood innocence isn’t one of them! I’m hoping that, since I didn’t pick up on those things when I was a kid, neither will my daughter. /me keeps my fingers crossed
December 29th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
This is my all-time favorite movie. I used to watch it at least once a week as a kid and it has so many fond memories for me, despite it’s adult jokes. I actually just got it for Christmas :)
December 29th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Arieanna: Thanks for commenting! It’s amazing the adult jokes that I missed in the kids’ movies when I was younger. And I thought they were all so innocent. :D As a parent now, I do enjoy all the “mature” jokes placed for me in my kids’ movies. Makes them all bearable when watching them for the 50th time! Hope you had a Merry Christmas. :)
December 30th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
[…] So, what happened to all those girls who played the adorable orphans, or Annie herself, all those years ago? Well, apparently a few of them appeared in a movie on Showtime called Life After Tomorrow. […]
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
[…] Today, I’ll just throw you back to the early 80’s with a clip from Mama’s Family. I was reminded of the show the other day while watching Carol Burnett in Annie. She cracks me up! And then I thought of her in “The Carol Burnett Show,” which I used to love as a kid, and of the family skits that she would perform with Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Harvey Korman. The best was always when they would get each other laughing and barely be able to pull it all back together. Those were my favorite moments! […]