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Vivian in Lexington KY
She says ... Andy Griffith will always be what he always was — funny
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By Annelore Harrell
She says ...
In 1953, when George William was in law school at the University of Georgia, we
went to a football game one beautiful fall afternoon. I think that our Georgia
Bulldogs played Alabama’s Crimson Tide that day, but for the life of me I
couldn’t tell you who won.
I do remember as clear as can be the young man who was part of the halftime
show.
His name was Andy Griffith and he had me laughing so hard I got a stitch in my
side.
He talked about coming to a football game and his rendition in a totally
ridiculous country accent of “What it was was football” has become a classic
comedic monologue.
All we knew on that football Saturday was that he was one funny man.
From the very beginning when he talks about getting two hot dogs and a big
orange to his description of convicts coming onto the cow pasture blowing
whistles to pretty girls wearing short skirts dancing around and bunches of men
fighting and carrying on, we laughed.
His conclusion of what he had seen or as he put it, “He studied about it,” was
that it was some kind of a contest where they try to see which bunch can take
that funnyshaped pumpkin from one end of the cow pasture to the other without
getting knocked down or stepping in something.
Andy Griffith’s talent and humor has carried well through the years.
Remember how he told about the tale of Romeo and Juliet, which he said was more
like a story about two daddies who didn’t get along and his interpretation of
the ballet Swan Lake with his fresh look at what the dancers on stage are doing
and how they are dressed. That can bring a smile to the most committed of
ballet devotees.
For years, we have watched Griffith on television as Matlock and as Andy Taylor
of Mayberry.
His movies have not been as numerous as his appearances on TV and we looked
forward to his latest film “Play the Game.”
As a lonely widower, Griffith, with the encouragement and under the direct
supervision of his grandson, begins to search for someone to be his companion
and finds more than he expects as he uses his grandson’s techniques for
attracting the opposite sex.
But the shoe is on the other foot as the grandson begins to realize that he has
much to learn from his naive but open-hearted grandfather.
“Play the Game” might deal with some serious facts of life, but always with a
sense of humor that had the audience laughing out loud, a movie that has no
smutty language and leaves much to the imagination — which even at my age is
thankfully and comfortably vivid.
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