Behind the Ironic Column

Katharine Hepburn would have been 100 today.   I hadn’t really registered that her birthday was May 12 – or at least it wasn’t on the top of my mental notes for today.  But when I looked at the Film Center schedule to check on tonight’s movie, I found that they were showing “Summertime.”   Not the best of her films but it fit with the series of Janus films they’ve been shoing and they had a beautiful print.  It was fun and the audience had a good time. Karen Karbo, author of a new book called “How to Hepburn” gave a short introduction.  Karen once worked at the Film Center so it was her idea to show a Hepburn film on the occasion of her hundredth birthday.

Kate Hepburn died 4 years ago, but one can easily imagine her as a bossy centenarian, taking no guff from anybody.  The New York Times had an op-ed piece today and other news media mentioned her.   

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