Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
“Well, never mind! Your Auntie Mame will open doors for you. Doors you never even dreamed existed. What times we’ll have!”
Luke 9:5
“If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
“She don’t live here. She drinks and does her passing out here.”
Luke 14:24
“I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.”
“Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death!”
Matthew 7:6
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
“I won’t put $500 on my back for that awful man. A suit will do.”
Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.”
“What could be more wholesome or natural?”
“Natural? Well, it might be natural for a sardine!”
“Mr. Babcock, I consider your behavior most undignified.”
“Undignified? At least I wear a vest.”
2 Samuel 18:9
“Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s hair got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.”
“Can I ask you just one question?”
“How did you stay on that horse?”
“It’s like New Haven with the bracelet.”
“I got stuck, but at the other end.”
Matthew 5:15
“Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.”
“For nine years I’ve tried to open windows in his life. You want to shut him up in a safe deposit box. I won’t let you do that to my little one.”
“Undignified? At least I wear a vest.”
New response to all criticism, right there.
For some reason that made me think of the Liberty Vest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_bodice
My mom and I were about 90% through this movie when we were like, “wait, where’s all the singing?”
OH my heart. This movie is the best movie. I am hear to discuss this movie, specifically the set design. How much fun did the set designers have in this movie? I can’t imagine it was any less than all the fun.
All the apartment re-decorations! Amazing. All the better to set off her truly magnificent sparkly jumpsuits!
Yule Ooloo!
(I am so excited about the Auntie Mame set design I decided to just type that phonetically before looking it up. Yul Ulu.)
Relevant to 100% of my interests. Brava, Ms Ortberg! Brava!
Oooh,I want to belong to the Church of the Divine Mame!
You do, darling, you do!
I was raised by agnostics and grew up believing that everything I needed to know in life I could glean from Auntie Mame. I am glad to see that this was a correct assumption!!
My high school did this show my junior year. It was the best time!
This is top drawer, reeaaalllly top drawer.
Mallory, I think this is your successful application for the MacArthur genius grant.
Also, is anyone else strangely fond of poor stupid Gloria? I mean, yes, she’s dreadful, but the way she tells the Ping-Pong ball story, she throws herself really into it and there’s nothing that circle hates more than enthusiasm. I really think Auntie Mame should rescue her.
This has been a life-long ethical dilemma for me.
Yes, exactly. Free Gloria!
Auntie Mame is the guiding light in my life and I try to make every aunt choice as she would.
Luke 14:24
“I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.”
“Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death!”
I have literally used that line in belief statements for the ministry process. Except I said “folks” instead of “sons of bitches”.
Matthew 14:29
“He said, ‘Come!’ Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.”
“And then she stepped on the baaaaaall.”
Yesssssssssssssssssssssss
So, I am here at home having a kind of rocky evening. Things are ok, just annoying. As one does, I ate a whole bunch of peanut M&Ms to cheer myself up, while reading Ortberg’s Mame thing here. I was enjoying it thoroughly and then I got to your comment, MollyWTX, and nearly threw up all the M&Ms, I was laughing so hard.
I am happy to have made you laugh when it was needed, and I sincerely hope no M&Ms were lost in the incident. Fun bonus about this line of dialogue: It also appears in an episode of Kimmy Schmidt! Xanthippe is walking up to a bunch of the “cool kids” in the park, and the last line of their overheard conversation is, indeed, “And then she stepped on the baaaaall.” That was my personal lose-the-M&Ms moment.
Well, I just squashed it to bits. It was ghaaaahstly. It was juuuust ghaaaaahstly.
Job 20:14
“Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.”
“Just plain old pickled rattlesnake.”
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OMG!!!!! This was the best and yes the Movie is wonderful. However READ the book it’s FABOOOOOO my Dears simply FABOOOOOO. Did I mention the Musical dear Jerry Herman did, okay the music that is. Not the best Musical ever to be sure but it did give us Bea Arthur and Angela Landsbury!
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John 8:12
“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
“But darling! I’m your Auntie Mame!”
Readers with an interest in vintage clothing should try to find a copy of Little Me. The book is the purported autobiography of Belle Poitrine, portrayed from her infancy through six decades into her forties, by Jeri Archer, who collected vintage clothing. All the photos of Archer were in her own outfits. Wonderful fun.
Being how the Bible was here before Auntie Mame I think she was quoting the Bible and not vice versa just trying to formulate that the Bible was before Auntie Mame