January 20, 2017

A Summer Place

Saturday 9: A Summer Place (1960)
 
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This song highlights the soundtrack from the movie A Summer Place, which is about two teenage lovers named Molly and Johnny.Did you ever have a youthful summer romance? If so, what was his/her name?

Oh yes!  Met a boy, cute as can be...we stayed out till 10 o'clock...he got friendly just holding my hand.  Wait that's Danny and Sandy from Grease.  No, no summer romances for me.  We never went on vacations.

2) The "summer place" of the song/movie is a resort along the Maine coast. What "summer place" are you day dreaming about this winter morning?

I am always dreaming about Chincoteague and Assateague Islands.  They are my happy place.  I'd move there in a heartbeat if I could get the hubby to go.



3) In the movie, Johnny was played by Troy Donahue, who is remembered as nice looking but not terribly talented. Can you think of one of today's actors who you could describe as "nice looking but not terribly talented?"

Channing Tatum

4) Molly is played by Sandra Dee, a perky blonde who was one of 1960's bankable movie stars. Two other blondes -- Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds -- joined Sandra Dee in the Top 10. The only brunette to sell a lot of movie tickets that year was Elizabeth Taylor. Do you believe men find blondes more attractive than brunettes or redheads? 

I think it's a matter of what media tells us is hot at the moment....blonde, brunette, stick-thin, curvy, straight hair, curly hair, long skirts, hoochie-baring skirts, etc.

5) "A Summer Place" was by far the best-selling record of 1960. Also in 1960, two brothers in Ypsilanti, Michigan, opened a pizza place called Dominck's. That was the beginning of a chain now known as Domino's. What's the last food you had delivered to your front door?

We've been picking it up ourselves lately, but I think it might have been Chinese.

6) In 1965, one of the brothers sold his share of the business to his brother for cash so he could buy a VW Beetle. Tell us about a time you had buyer's remorse.

I can't really think of anything.  Now if you ask if I have buyer's remorse over some of the things my husband has bought over the years....that's a different story!

7) In 1960, novelist Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States from Spain and settled in Ketchum, Idaho. Tell us about the last book you read. Was it a novel or non-fiction?

I just finished reading The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews.  It was sort of a romance, but more about a young woman who was "thrown under a bus by her Washington, D.C. boss" learning to stand up for herself and take back her life. Bonus, there was a recipe for barbecue ribs at the end that sounds amazing and easy (I am all about easy) that I am going to try this weekend.

8) In December, 1960, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was baptized in the Georgetown University Chapel. His godparents were Charles and Martha Bartlett, the couple who originally introduced young John's famous parents. Do you have godparents?

Nope.  Methodists don't really do that.  Plus, given the circumstances of my birth (it was positively scandalous that my mom was an unmarried mother in 1964) the normal conventions weren't really observed.

9) Random question: You're at dinner with a married couple who begins to fight. Would you intercede and try to make peace? Or would you just sit back stay out of it?

I might initially make a light-hearted comment to try and diffuse the situation, but if it became a full on fight I'd just stay out of it...and probably try to find a way to make an exit.

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16 comments:

  1. I thought of Channing Tatum, too! (Poor kid.)

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    1. What's really bad (for him) is that I don't even think he's all that cute. His eyes are too close together....I just can't get past that.

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  2. I do not have god parents either. When I had my first child I was 16 and that was scandalous as well. My daughter has no god parents as well and like you it is mostly because of our religion as baptist

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    1. I get that unmarried and pregnant isn't exactly desirable, but I sure don't get how my grandparents could have treated my mom the way they did...and then turn around and be the most wonderful grandparents ever. My mom still has some issues. I hope you were able to move on.

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  3. I agree with you on Channing. There are a few others that are also empty eye candy too.

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    1. Brad Pitt, that guy from the Twilight movies....

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  4. That random question is something, but you and I answered it about the same! Fun questions and I enjoyed reading your answers! Happy Saturday!

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    1. Not surprising. We seem to be like-minded on a lot of things.

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  5. No godparents for me, either. I kept thinking of Grease while responding to this, too, except I was thinking of that song "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee!"

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    1. "As for you, Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do!" Yeah, I thought of that, too.

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    1. Poor boy. I wonder if he knows we all think he's awful? I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank.

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  7. Mmmm. My very Methodist family all had God Parents.

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  8. United Methodist? Maybe that makes a difference? Anyway, I don't know any United Methodists who had godparents. Or maybe it's an east coast-west coast thing?

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  9. Oh, they'd be so devastated -- my DIL and grand-girls adore Channing Tatum. LOL!!! I'm so removed from the Hollywood scene, I scarcely know who's who. (I'd probably say Brad Pitt, only on account I'm still holding a major grudge at his dumping Jennifer.)

    Enjoyed your these answers, Stacy! (Say, how in the heck do I go about becoming a follower? I don't see a link anywhere.)

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    1. My daughter thinks Channing is pretty cute, too. He was in our town a couple of years ago making a movie and you would not believe how social media exploded with sightings. He wasn't shy about going out to Walmart and local restaurants and bars.

      As for following me, I have no idea. I'll have to look into that!

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