Bye Bye Birdie.

Confession 4; What happened to love from the sixties. Just this evening I watched the old musical from 1963, "Bye Bye Birdie" starring Ann Margaret. Now, if none of you have seen this then shame on you and that should be the first thing you do after reading this. If otherwise you HAVE seen it then you know what I'm taking about. Well, I guess for the ones who have yet to watch it, I'll be considerate and explain a little about the story. 
Kim Mackabee is a sixteen year old girl like any other. She loves boys, music, and attention. But above all else she is the President of the Conrad Birdie fan club. Its like a twist on the teen girls in the sixties and seventies who were heart wrenched over Elvis Presley. Anyway it's a two part love connection between Kim and her new man from school Hugho, and the song writer for Conrad, Albert,  and his beautiful secretary Rosie. Long story short they make money being on the Ed Sullivan show using Conrad and Kim. Rosie wants to get married but Albert is too strung on pleasing his widowed mother. While Hugho's jealousy over Conrad and Kim tears their little crush apart and along with music and dancing this movie is a regular, loveable, chick flick. What can I say. I AM a fool for romance.
But back to my first statement, watching these old movies from the sixties and seventies just makes you think. What happened. I mean think about it, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Grease and even Superman....they were all full of love and loving and being loved. The guy always got the girl or vise versa. There was usually some heroic deed, or sweet words used, or something that caught HER heart and...compared to the movies and real life situations now a days I look back and just wish it could all still be the same. Maybe I am being some corny desperate romantic but what young woman isn't? Face it, even men would love to feel the way those movies showed the men of that decade feeling. What girl wouldn't want someone to dance across chimney tops with her? What man wouldn't want a woman to be willing to change everything she was just to make him happy? Ahhhh, love of the old decades. What would we do without them.