Ok.
I will be honest.
As I write this Top Gun is on Sky One. Kids have put up with me saying this phrase all day as it is the only one that I can remember from the film as well as breaking out into singing lyrics from 'Danger Zone' and 'Take my Breath away'
Ok I admit I am sad. However this film is one of the few that I actually like Tom Cruise in - well a young Tom Cruise anyway. So the reason, apart from that, that it is on now, is the attempt to show the eldest son that mum does know some of the actors he talks about occasionally and that I have seen them in films. You think I am strange, try listening to your son trying to make a connection between the Tom Cruise in Top Gun to the Tom Cruise in Collateral or Last Sammuri. Just like he cannot believe that the man playing 'Goose' is the same Anthony Edwards that plays Dr. Mark Greene in my old episodes of ER.
So tell me what is it about kids that makes them think they have the monopoly on actors or music? How many times have you heard a cover version of a song by a boy band that you know was sung by your favourite band first time round? I only ask as this is one of my many discussions. Westlife singing 'Uptown Girl' and child singing it and being surprised if I say I have the version by Billy Joel. Who? he asks in amazement. Can't possibly be the same song until I play it to death to prove a point.
Another conversation springs to mind. Sky one is doing a programme about Spontaneous combustion Hosted by Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. "Don't tell me" says eldest child 2 "he is from one of your groups you play endlessly, that I don't understand the words to"
My attempt to educate him has obviously failed miserably only hope there is still time to educate the youngest in taste for music and films. I fear this may be an uphill struggle as he still loves disney films and Sugababes!
