This weekend, our mates hosted a film viewing of Newsies…
The 1992 musical — starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Doogie Howser’s greatest buddy — follows a gaggle of teenage newsies who arrange 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 indicate the film to my very 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 sophisticated, and the forged is all-star.” However, except for the dancing and singing and punches and kissing, are you aware the rationale I bear in mind it most? It was my greatest 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 girls 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 intently by Westley in The Princess Bride.”
And one other buddy named Keanu Reeves in Pace. “Midway by that film,” she stated, “I grew to become a lady.”
So, now I’m curious: Did you’ve got a TV/film sexual awakening? Or teenage celeb crush? I can let you know my post-divorce re-awakening: Soiled Dancing after 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 Consider You’ve By no means Seen That!” film evening, sex-positive parenting for prudes, and how did you find out about intercourse rising up?
