How could anyone mind a second prime rib dinner, I ask?
I decided last night to unfeast while the world feasts. Not Chinese food though. I bought the uncooked corn tortillas and made fried in butter cheese and apple slice quesadillas. If you weren’t in the mood for roast goose, it was a perfect supper.
And we watched the old version of The Bishop’s Wife. Sure, no Denzel, but Cary Grant and Loretta Young were great. Never saw it before, never saw this gorgeous Loretta Young before. I had to look her up. When she was an older woman she was watching a tv show on date rape with one of her daughters and exclaimed, “That’s what Clark Gable did to me!”
He made her pregnant during filming a movie, and she disappeared, then the next year “adopted” her own baby, and it was apparently an open secret that Clark Gable had been the father. At some point she told that daughter that Clark Gable was her father, but never told her it was of rape. She blamed herself for not fending him off enough. She was a religious catholic woman. The daughter never knew it was date rape. The sister opened up about it after all three involved had passed on.
My takeaway is that it was sad that women and girls back then would think it was their fault (for being in the room, or wearing that dress, or even being pretty) when a man would force himself on her. Obviously there is a level of too far for a woman to go to then call no, and blame him. But before that, the woman has the right to not have sex.
Thanks for the recipes they both look delicious. Especially the thai beef. That bag of noodles is sitting out on the counter so this year it’s the stroganoff. I’ve not seen the remake but The Bishops Wife with Loretta Young has been a staple for many years. I read once that David Niven originally wanted to be the angel. I like it just the way it is. Big fans of Loretta Young too. I knew about the baby. I discovered another movie of her’s this year -Come to the Stable. Best Christmas movie ever and the word Christmas is never uttered or portrayed.
OOPS sorry Yaelle I combined my responses by mistake, read above for my comment on The Bishope Wife.