April 26 Carol Burnett

Happy Birthday Carol Burnett and Edgar Kennedy.

To celebrate Carol Burnett’s birthday I watched A Wedding. She plays the mother of the bride. She has a southern accent and talks a lot. Pat McCormick dances with her and states that he loves her and wants to be with her. She tries to get away and rushes out with a hand over her mouth like she is going to throw up. She gets to the bathroom and throws up. As she goes back down the steps she trips over the wedding camera equipment and falls down the steps. Pat helps her up and puts her behind him stating to stay there until everyone leaves. When they are alone he asks her to meet him in the green house in five minutes. She says that is too soon, so he says ten minutes. When they meet outside they run to meet each other and she bounces backwards. As they go to kiss a group of children came along. She goes back into the party. A strong gale develops and people go to the basement. Carol goes to the bathroom and Pat follows. As Geraldine Chaplin comes into the room, he locks himself in the bathroom. As Carol and Geraldine talk you hear the sound of breaking glass and Pat comes in through the door to get them to the basement. In the basement they agree to meet in two weeks. After the storm it comes out that Carol’s other daughter (Mia Farrow who does not speak one line) is pregnant and the groom (Desi Arnez Jr.) is the father. (I swear I hear someone say that he “has some splainen to do”.) It turns out there were a lot of men so it could not be blamed on Desi. The family leave and come up to a car accident. A car has hit a gas truck. It is the couples’ car. They go back to the groom’s family to tell them what happened, in a state of shock. The couple come down the steps and it turns out that the former lovers of the bride and groom borrowed the car. That scene was unexpected. There is a circle of shock and amazement. Shock and amazement at the accident, anger that Desi was drunk and shouldn’t have been driving and shock and amazement that the couple was still alive. Carol sees this as a sign and tells Pat that they can’t meet. The families all leave.

There are many great actors in this film. There are more actors listed at the beginning of this film then I have ever seen before. I could actually keep everyone straight, normally I can’t.

I am a big fan of Carol Burnett. I got to stay up Saturday nights to watch The Carol Burnett Show. I thought that was the best show ever. The comedy, the music, the stars, Steve Lawrence, the commercial skits, Mrs. Wiggins, Mama, Madam and the great movie parodies. I miss The Carol Burnett Show. They don’t make television like that any more.

So as always “I am so glad we had this time together, to laugh and sing a song. Seems like we just got started and before you know it, it’s time to say so long (ear tug)”.