Thursday, August 17, 2006

Jimmy Stewart's Not My Dad

D'you know.....I was watching TV th'other night.......and what came on but "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation" with James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara.....(you know the one.....I'm sure we've watched it together at some point......) and honestly, I was amazed at how much Jimmy Stewart looked like E.M.!! His gestures....his attitude..... his gangley walk..... HIS HAT!!!!! Do you remember Dad's hat? I couldn't believe it....I almost called the whole fam-damnly.

Mom used to talk about how, as a young man....when Dad was in New York .....or Montreal...or where ever....women would swarm him for his autograph.... and he would give it....after a modest protest. For the thought of knowing that those poor misguided girls would get home, look at their autograph albums and wonder who the hell Warmest Regards E.M Tevlin was was too much to resist and would amuse him for days.

Let's not forget those memories eh!

And of course there was the famous "morning after the Press Club Ball episode" with B.J. accosting the G.R.Y.C. commodore and accusing him of being Peter Ustinov....for whose 2nd or 3rd wife I am named....the one who was with her at the convent and hopped the wall to marry him....which reminds me of the Ursulines and another convent wall that I so narrowly escaped........hmmmmmmmmm......... life's still pretty funny ........and pretty good...........