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 arrange their very own union to allow them to stand as much as the “muckety-mucks,” aka the newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer and his henchmen.
I used to be excited to indicate the film to my very own boys, ages 12 and 15, as a result of I ADORED THIS MOVIE at their age. “I really like Newsies and I take it very critically,” wrote The New Yorker’s Hannah Goldfield, who’s youthful than I’m but additionally watched the film on repeat all through her childhood. “The characters are attention-grabbing and sophisticated, and the solid is all-star.” However, except for 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 12 months afterward, and nonetheless credit the film for kickstarting her romantic yearnings.
Inquisitive about 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 Velocity. “Midway by way of that film,” she stated, “I grew to become a lady.”
So, now I’m curious: Did you might have a TV/film sexual awakening? Or teenage superstar crush? I can let you know my post-divorce re-awakening: Soiled Dancing once I lastly noticed it in 2024. Gahhhh!
P.S. An “I Can’t Consider You’ve By no means Seen That!” film night time, sex-positive parenting for prudes, and how did you study intercourse rising up?