Legacy Matters

Mrs Robinson

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know (Wo, wo, wo)
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
(Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey)

Simon and Garfunkel

Anne Bancroft,  the ultimate Sexy Older Woman after playing Mrs Robinson in The Graduate died yesterday of uterine cancer at age 73.

She was every young and old man's dream of a middle-aged seductress.  The AP obit quotes her, "Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be and that we're ordinary."

Arthur Penn, who directed her award winning performances on Broadway is quoted in the NYT obituary as saying,  "More happens in her face in 10 seconds that happens in most women's faces in 10 years."

She played the half-blind teacher Annie Sullivan to Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, her greatest acting triumph for which she won both a Tony and an Oscar.    The moment when she breaks through to the young blind and deaf girl with the meaning of water is one of the most thrilling moments I've ever seen in a movie.

The lights on Broadway will be dimmed tonight in her honor