The Daily News

1   We're baaaaaaack!!!!!!!

2   Seems like years.

3   Spinning.

4   Lotta football.

5   Even I am willing to give a tip-of-the cap to Seattle and what has to be one of the most classic games in history.

6   You can't fight that one.

7   Congrats. 

8   I can't see them losing at this point. 

9    I was glad to see Tom Brady back on top. I was always a Brady fan, but I am descended from Bradys.

10  It's gonna be fun.

11  Meanwhle...

12  fafadfffdsfdsff.

13   Moving On, Part One: May I confess something?

14   I'm not excited to be back.

15   At school that is.

16   Everything is a blur.

17   I may share this at another time.

  

18   It is last night.

19   I'm watching the immortal ice cream scene from Guess Who's Coming  to Dinner. 

20   It stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Tracy's final film. 

21   Tracy wants to buy an ice cream from a place he bought the best ice cream ever as a kid, but he can't remember the name of the ice cream. It's a classic drive-in joint, where they bring the stuff to your car.

22   The waitress gives him a list of the thousands of flavors they have, and he becomes muddled, but believes she names it, and so he orders it. The acting between the two was genuine. They had been married for years, and were truly in love. Tracy had cancer during filming, and died just 17 days after the filming ended. Hepburn knew all along it may have been their last film, and this soul flows through little scenes like the ice cream scene. Call me a sentimental old fluff, but I smiled. It's sometimes okay to smile at stuff that is the real deal. Good stuff. 

23   I love those sorts of things. It allows us old codgers to relax and give a nod to what is real. 

24   Moving On, Part Two: So much stuff.

25   Nobody understands nothin' no more. 

26   That's a line Hepburn bandied about in the movie.

27   I don't think I can even translate that one.

28   It ain't grammatically correct. 

29   Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was directed by Stanley Kramer (The Defiant Ones, On the Beach, Inherit the Wind) who does a marvelous job with a difficult topic: interracial marriage. 

30   Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton (Hepburn's niece) work perfectly as a young couple giddy and eager to get married. Houghton takes over the screen with charm and grace, an intelligent and sassy young lady who stands up for what she believes. 

31   Beah Richards as Mary Prentice and Roy E. Glenn as John Prentice, Sr. round out the cast as it becomes more a story about how the men think practically and the women think passionately. In the end, Tracy delivers a great oration on letting the young people do what they feel is best: that all marriages are going to go through tough times, and that there are no guarantees. 

32   Several times through the film Hepburn's eyes fill with tears that are ready to pour, but she holds back with tremendous dignity and respect. In this instance, life imitates art imitating life, and it all works. One of the most genuine films I've ever seen, and shown at exactly the right time.

33   Good stuff, and perfect after a long weekend. 

34   With that I'll depart this Tuesday. 

35   I'll see you again. 

36   Have a GREAT day, and a graceful day.

37   Peace.

~H~