This weekend, our associates hosted a film viewing of Newsies…
The 1992 musical — starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Doogie Howser’s finest buddy — follows a bunch of teenage newsies who manage their very own union to allow them to stand as much as the “muckety-mucks,” aka newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer and his henchmen.
I used to be excited to point out the film to my own boys, ages 12 and 15, as a result of I ADORED THIS MOVIE at their age. “I like Newsies and I take it very critically,” wrote The New Yorker’s Hannah Goldfield, who’s youthful than I’m but additionally watched the film on repeat all through her childhood. “The characters are attention-grabbing and complicated, and the forged is all-star.” However, other than the dancing and singing and punches and kissing, have you learnt the rationale I keep in mind it most? It was my finest buddy’s sexual awakening. She fell hook, line, and sinker for Christian Bale, talked about him continuous for a 12 months afterward, and nonetheless credit the film for kickstarting her romantic yearnings.
Interested in different ladies I knew, I requested my buddy Izzy if there was a personality who opened her eyes to the world of affection and lust. “Mine was Robin Hood, the Disney cartoon,” she advised me, laughing, “adopted carefully by Westley in The Princess Bride.”
And one other buddy named Keanu Reeves in Speed. “Midway by means of that film,” she mentioned, “I grew to become a lady.”
So, now I’m curious: Did you may have a TV/film sexual awakening? Or teenage superstar crush? I can inform you my post-divorce re-awakening: Dirty Dancing once I lastly noticed it in 2024. Gahhhh.
Replace: Omg our beloved contributor Kelsey Miller simply texted me, “I additionally take Newsies very critically,” together with this previous Halloween photograph of her daughter!
P.S. An “I Can’t Believe You’ve Never Seen That!” movie night, sex-positive parenting for prudes, and how did you learn about sex growing up?
