I also learned sex from the movies. Everyone has. But one particular movie sent my (then uber-closeted) father into cardiac arrest when he heard I had seen it. <\/p>\n

Picture it: 1972, Brockvegas.* A rather mature looking 13 year old kid somehow wrangles his way into a 2pm matinee of a restricted showing of this movie in a small Eastern Ontario town (actually I think it was Adult Accompaniment, but it was Restricted to someone my age, at least!). I went because I knew all the grownups were talking about it in hushed tones. Shocking. Scandalous! Sexy…<\/p>\n

I was nervous going in. I left confused but yet knew that I had seen a masterpiece. When I got home I was honest with my father when he asked where I was that afternoon. I told him the title of the movie and he totally lost his shit. <\/p>\n

“How did you get in to see that movie? Why did you go see THAT movie? What do you think was happening in the movie?”<\/p>\n

And the last question that left me head scratching (at the time): “Did you like the music?”<\/p>\n

What was the movie? <\/p>\n

Cabaret.<\/a><\/p>\n

*I know… Sharkboy just finished watching Season One of The Golden Girls.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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