| re: Changes to MY FAIR LADY that were and weren't made for the most recent Broadway production | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:04 pm EST 03/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Changes to MY FAIR LADY that were and weren't made for the most recent Broadway production - Michael_Portantiere 09:51 am EST 03/09/21 | |
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| Beating one's wife and children was pretty common in the neighborhood where I grew up in the 50's. My dad was the exception to the rule on our block. He never beat my mother and never even spanked my younger siblings. This is actually hard to believe, but I swear it's true. I attended very strict Catholic grade schools in blue collar neighborhoods. I remember when I was in the 8th grade or so all the guys in my class had to meet with a Jesuit priest once a week -- I clearly remember him telling us that when we got married, it was our responsibility to beat our wives if we caught them being untruthful. In the 70's I built a summer home for my parents in a rural area of central Illinois. Our closest neighbor used to brag how he beat his wife whenever she got out of line, like, for example, if she used her electric dryer for the laundry when it wasn't raining outside. I remember he came over one Sunday afternoon while I was watching a Chicago Bears game and left suddenly in a huff because he refused to watch a professional sport that paid a *n-word* like Walter Payton so much money. Fortunately he passed away before the summer I brought some guys from my baseball team (one of whom was black) to do some fishing on our lake. Just a little slice of the world I grew up in. |
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