Yesterday my foster granddaughter and I watched "Annie Get Your Gun". First she asked me if there were any bad guys. I thought and said, no. What a novel idea! I was surprised myself. Disney movies ALWAYS have a bad guy, well, actually, it's usually a WOMAN. But no, this musical has no bad guys and the problem in the movie is Annie Oakley and Frank Butler are hot headed. It's their tempers and Frank's swelled head that keep them from their happy ending for a while. She loved the costumes, the songs and especially "Anything you can do I can do better". We sang it after with our own words until her dad picked her up. And hey, I figure she learned there was a real wild west heroine who bested the guys all over the world, and looked mighty pretty doing it. Betty Hutton was a great comedienne, and Howard Keel was his usual grinning, goodnatured songbird. And my granddaughter learned about Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill Cody and Shawnee Bill. What's not to like?
The song "Got no Diamonds, Got No Pearls" is a great message, too: "I got the sun in the morning and the moon in the evening and the stars at night". Still I'm grateful for what I've got. Hummmm. What a radical concept.
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