Whenever the subject of Easter Parade comes up (which is more often than I’d ever have suspected), I send people to an old link that I fear will some day disappear entirely. Thus, I’ll produce here the excerpt from Jason Linkin’s excellent and long-gone live blog of the Sunday news shows, a joyous if often troubling snarkfest analysis and head-slapping of the finest degree. At the original post, you have to scroll through the reviews of FOX News Sunday, Jake Tapper’s This Week, to get there, along with a hefty peppering of ads. Plus, the nice screenshots from the movie are no longer part of the the post.
HOWEVER, for posterity and the ability to link to just the liveblog of this most excellent, silly, and memorable movie, I’ve excerpted just the movie part, complete with references to 2010-era political news.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
Jun 4, 2010, 05:12 AM EDT|Updated Dec 6, 2017
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES presents EASTER PARADE
And now, in the spirit of recent holidays, I think that I shall focus this week’s contemporary politics through the prism of the Fred Astaire/Judy Garland classic, Easter Parade. This is because this liveblog is essentially a lawless, rogue state, and I am feeling oddly frisky and because I promised my wife I’d TiVo it for her, because she loves it, and that means my TiVo cannot get MEET THE PRESS today, too bad for America!
EASTER PARADE, which documents some weird bygone traditions like bursting into spontaeous songs and walking around in public wearing stupid looking hats, for Jesus. Fred Astaire opens the movie shopping for hats, and you watch a bunch of ladies stroll out from a back room wearing them, which indicates that customer service used to actually MEAN SOMETHING. My wife confesses that it always upsets her when he chooses the boring white hat over the obviously superior yellow one.
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