Hello my everyones and everythings,



Have you seen Singing In The Rain? It is so sentimental and saccharine and trite, but it is also hypnotic and wonderful and funny.



Don Lockwood (the Gene Kelly character) was my first real crush. I remember putting my tiny face right on the screen so that Mr Lockwood turned into a million tiny perfectly round brightly colored jewels, The fuzzy electric feeling that i felt when putting my face on my families 15 inch set is a feeling i still get, purely through memory when i see something overwhelmingly beautiful.


I couldn't understand, couldn't wrap my tiny mind around how gentle and funny Don could be in love with that perky Debbie Reynolds and not me, or at least the sexy and funny Lena Lamont.



Do you remember that steamy hot last number? With the amazing dancer in the green dress and the strange colors and the sexy jazz? and the awesome and incongruus scene (dream?? love montage?) with Gene wrapping his lover/partner in endlessly long silk scarves. It was to much for my heart to handle.




As a grown up I still get Dons appeal, funny, dashing, brave, romantic, gentle and warm all the things that still warm me to a man.

I caught myself humming one of the songs today, and thinking about how wonderful and terrible it is being in love with a character on a screen. And remembering that that is actually the plot of the damn movie.

So tell me kids, who was your first on screen crush?