Each time I have watched this movie, I have missed what Sen. Jackson's scandal was. Would someone please tell me? It would explain what I am missing about Starina's (Nathan Lane) comment about his autopsy
Nos perituri mortem salutamus nobis semper sit amor.
Senator Jackson "died in the bed of an underage black whore".
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"The mind wobbles..." -Kelly Bundy
This is one of my favorite movies he did. "You do Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham! Or Twyla, Twyla, Twyla! Or Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd! Or Madonna, Madonna, Madonna!"
shareThe cofounder of a religious right-type interest group gets caught having sex with an underage girl for money.
To allude to racism among the right-wing, the film also has the U.S. Senator upset that she is black. Later on the wife assumes that her daughter is marrying a white man..."a white weddings symbolized morality and marriage" she says. The daughter also had to tell her parents that her fiance and his family are Christian.
The term "white wedding" has nothing to do with anyone's skin color. It refers to a formal or semi-formal marriage ceremony.
shareYep and the white additionally suggests the morality of the bride by presuming she is a pure virgin. That's why people think it's tacky for a divorcee, a woman with children, or one who is obviously pregnant, to wear white at her wedding. Only virgins are truly supposed to be wearing white. Not like that really applies nowadays.
The people you idolize wouldn't like you.
That is a myth. It goes back to Medieval times when a rich bride wore a wedding dress to show she had more than one dress.
Most women of that time had one dress they wore until it fell to pieces.
The color white also had nothing to do with purity until the 20th century. Queen Victoria popularized the color when she chose to wear it on her wedding day, and thanks to newspapers, a growing medium, the whole world heard about her white dress. Before then, and for a while after, women just wore their nicest dress to their wedding, regardless of color. White was uncommon because it was hard to create and maintain a pure white in the days before bleach, so often only the wealthy had white clothes. Once bleach was common and more women started wearing white, the "purity/virginal" aspect of the color became popularized. Which is rediculous because in all classical art, alll of it, the Virgin Mary is never shown in white. She is usually in blue.
shareWould someone please tell me? It would explain what I am missing about Starina's (Nathan Lane) comment about his autopsy