[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: And Baby Makes Three

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
And Baby Makes Three
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1229271133.shtml


   I've been making the TV rounds of my favorite Christmas movies, and I
   might have to add another even if only tangentially set around the
   Holidays. It's "Bundle of Joy" with Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fischer,
   then young marrieds, soon to be parents of Carrie Fisher.
   It's a wonderful time trip back to the golden age of Department Store
   Retail, the improbable romance of the owner's son with a lowly clerk
   in Millinery. It's a musical, but not overly so, and sung by real
   singers. Eddie Fisher is a personal favorite of mine, perhaps the most
   mechanically perfect male singer of his era. He only lacked the
   stylings that made Sinatra and Bennett great.
   It's a case of mistaken identity, Debbie Reynolds assumed to be the
   mother of an abandoned 1 year old baby. The baby of course runs the
   show and controls everyone in it - and now, me.