Ain't That Some Shit

A while ago, my family rented "Roman Holiday" with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. We had never seen it before and we all agreed it was marvelous -- it was made back when movies still showed depth of character. Watching it made us long for more old movies, so when I went back to the movie store on Friday, I picked up "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn. Hubby hadn't seen it yet and even though I had, I was completely amenable to watching it again; I remembered loving it the first time.

Well, incase you haven't seen "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," I need to tell you what it's about so that I can explain why a particular part almost made me laugh out loud. Don't worry. I won't give anything away; although once I tell you the premise, you'll guess how it ends.

Poitier plays a doctor while Tracy and Hepburn play the adoring parents of a 23 year old girl named Joey. Joey comes home from a trip abroad and announces that she's getting married to the doctor. This movie was completely ahead of its time but was so brilliantly written that its message still resonates in current affairs where marriage is in question -- class, sexuality, race(still) -- and Sidney Poitier talks about this in his book, The Measure of a Man: A Spititual Autobiography.

Aw, their kid turned out cute!

The part that I found funny was when John Prentice (Poitier) says that his fiancé believed their children could become Presidents of the United States. Did I mention that they met in, and traveled back together from, Hawaii? <raising eyebrows significantly> I wonder if little Barack watched this as a kid and thought, "Yes, we can!"