With Puberty Comes Love!

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It was August, 1948--I was a boy of 12--and we were staying at our summer home (yes, I came from a--as Gregory in A Chorus Line says,-- "An upper middle class or middle upper class where astro turf on the patio was considered chic") in Lake Hiawatha, NJ. (We lived on Nokomis Avenue near Minnie-Ha-Ha Boulevard--talk about camp!) I went to the movie in Boonton, NJ which was known for being a 'strange' movie house--you walked into the auditorium and had to turn around 180 degrees to sit down and face the screen!) The movie started--"Romance On The High Seas" and I fell in love with Doris Day! I can still see her in my mind's eye on a cruise liner in the evening looking at the ocean, sky and stars singing "It's Magic"--for the next 4 years I kept a scrapbook about her--bought every movie magazine that had an article about her, cut out every ad for her movies--when I left home I didn't take them. :o( Though she was tops at the box office for many years she never won an Oscar--she was brilliant in "Love Me Or Leave Me" and "Pillow Talk" just to mention a couple--though there has been talk about an honorary Oscar so far not--there has been a push for her to honored by the US in it's annual Kennedy awards but so far it hasn't happened. I believe she has refused both. 68 years later I still LOVE this woman! It's Magic Doris Day Words by Sammy Cahn Music by Jule Styne Peaked at # 2 in 1948