Thursday, May 27, 2021

Why Did I Marry a Journalist?

 I first read The Front Page, that landmark stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, in high school as a printed script, and it was not an assignment. I had to go to a lot of trouble to get a copy. I was mesmerized. It was decades before I saw the story as a movie. Since, I have seen it as a stage play twice and several movie versions. The first time we were in London, my daughter insisted we would see the stage play, 'The Windy City'. I balked. Drug my feet. Why did I go all the way to London to see a play about Chicago? When the curtains opened, I knew -- it was The Front Page! So why did I go and marry a journalist? There must have been a reason.

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