"Often when I talk to the retirees here they want to know why in the world a woman in her twenties keeps coming back to a place made up of forty thousand grandpas and grandmas".
Sometime after the whopping success of "It Happened One Night," Frank Capra had lost his instinct for sex scenes, and his comedies became almost obscenely neuter, with clean, friendly old grandpas presiding over blandly retarded families.
During the workweek, it was inhabited by grandmas and their charges (a few grandpas had survived the Second World War to play competitive chess beneath the easygoing American sun), our lives revolving around the intermittent delivery of stale baked goods from the back of a station wagon.
I've got grannies and grandpas crying in the second row, so now I'm going nuts with it.
We found instead a lost team, and an arena where the marketing amounts to nostalgia, dancing grandpas, lots of noise and more nostalgia.
It may be that Fookwire, like many grumpy old grandpas and uncles before him, actually loves the very creatures that annoy him.
This has been known to cause great disputes as some people – mainly uncles and grandpas – hide the almond in their hand or in their cheek, thus leaving members of their family not only in great suspense, but with aching bellies from eating way too much of the rich and filling dessert.
Ever since Bad Santa kicked off an industry-wide arms race to spin every emblem of civic responsibility – from teachers to neighbours to grandpas – into something "Bad", misanthropy has been the order of the day in American entertainment.
