Window No. 5
One of the benefits of having older parents - mine were born in the 1920s - was their taste in films. We watched old black and white cowboy films where the good guys always wore a white hat and the bad guys needed a bath. We watched comedies dominated by Tony Curtis, and thrillers starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. My favourites films though were the musicals. I loved ' Singing in the Rain ' for Gene Kelly's dancing, Debbie Reynolds gutsiness and Donald O'Connor's funny moves. ' Sweet Charity ' made me cry and I secretly used to sing ' There's gotta be something better than thi s' when my parents were out of earshot. My top musical of all time though was ' Kismet '. I saw it for the first time in the lead up to Christmas one year and was enchanted by it's Arabian Nights like storyline - a prince and a poet's daughter fall in love while the poet himself (played with fine gusto by Howard Keel) gets into all kinds of troub...