Movie Reviews and Fish Frys

Well, the title is a bit confusing I know... but these two are related....

Have any of you ever seen the movie "The Green Pastures"? It was made in 1936 and has an all black cast. Basically it is a spiritual musical that depicts several Old Testament stories as they might be imagined by a black Sunday School child during the Depression era. It's an all black vision of Heaven as a perpetual "fish-fry" (more on that in a minute) full of black angels and cherubs eating catfish, smoking 10-cent "see-gars" and where "De Lawd" presides over the tales of creation. My favorite part of the movie is where the Lord comes into where all the people are rejoicing at the riverside, he has cigar in mouth and he starts asking them in a musical lilt "have you been baptized?, have you been redeemed?", etc... And they sing back, "certainly, Lawd". After that goes on for a bit, he stops and looks at them all and says "Let the fish fry begin!" It's awesome and it's a great movie and if you haven't seen it, you need to. I think it's on DVD.

Anyway, regarding fish-frys, we are having a fish-fry at church tonight before a leadership meeting. My husband is a big fisherman and loves to serve people the fish he catches. So, tonight he will be doing the honors.

Let the fish-fry begin!