During one of my sleepless nights last week, I went downstairs and tinkered around while watching whatever old movies on late-night tv that happened to catch my interest. The film adaptation of Tennessee Willliams’ play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” was on, so I watched Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor do some of their top acting work. I first read the play in 7th Grade, after I found a book of Tennessee Williams plays in the DHS library. When I tried to check it out, Ruth Hansen, the DHS librarian at the time, said I wasn’t old enough to be reading such “racy” things. I politely asked her if we could call Mom and get her thoughts on the matter. Miss Hansen called Mom, and they had a jovial phone conversation full of laughter. Miss Hansen then let me check out the bigly book of Tennessee Williams plays I had been itching to get my hands on. I found out later that Mom had told Miss Hansen that if something was ok enough to be housed in the DHS library, it was ok for me to read it. Mom told her if it wasn’t fit for me to read, it probably wasn’t fit to be in a high school library. I guess that made sense to Miss Hansen, cuz I could check out whatever I found for the rest of my time there.
In honor of that little walk down Tennessee Williams memory lane, Bow Tie’s o’ the Day are here to put on a performance of their own just to make me feel at home. This is Bow Ties performing their rendition of “Bow Ties on a Hot Cast Iron Pan.” I’m so glad we don’t have a tin roof, or they would surely be dragging me up there to watch them frolic on it.
