…I can be as shallow as any other male-type human being. While looking for something else (as usual) I ran across the trailer for the new Color Purple, based on the Broadway play that’s based on the 1985 film that’s based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel. Dancing and singing? YES. How’d it do on the Tomatometer? 88%. Outstanding. Who’s in the cast? This is where I was halted in my tracks. The cast includes Hallee Bailey (left), whom I don’t know, and H.E.R., whom I do (here, she’s Belle in Beauty and the Beast) because I have a crush on her. So I am going to see this movie.

Then, thank goodness, I got my juvenile male plunge arrested by another video, not the trailer for the film, but highlights from the performance on Broadway. Dear Lord (thank you!), what voices! I’ll see the film now as much for the music as for the beautiful young women above, but nothing will ever forgive me for missing Jennifer Hudson on Broadway in The Color Purple.

I guess I need to get back to work on the time machine I’m building in the garage.