Tonight, after seeing "Doubt" on demand, she wondered what rating it would have. In addition
to holding a priest in a precarious position, but also, the big controversy about having
"a secular' song in the Christmas program. On top of that, the secular song, if it was "Frosty,
the Snowman," would also "conjure" up the whole magic hat thing.
I told her about how even "Miracle on 34th Street" was given a "B" (objectionable, in part,
for all) because it "accepted the possibility of divorce." This always gave us a hoot: not
only was a divorce objectionable, but even the possibility of divorce was not considered valid,
if you were a Catholic.
I remember looking at a list of "Condemned" movies and thought the most tantalizing of
them was "I am a Camera." When I saw it on TCM years ago, with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles, I was impressed in how not salacious it was. In fact, it was "I am a Camera," or some other book or film by John Van Druten or Christopher Isherwood, that was the basis of "Cabaret."
The Legend of Decency's weekly movie ratings was the only thing I read in the Friday
issues of The Catholic Review. Ah, how lovely it was to have the Church tell me everything
I needed to do, and of course, what to steer away from. If only life now could be that
uncomplicated. But then again, no.
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