"Plastic Jesus" - from Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman) - Luke LeBlanc

Описание: I’ve been visiting my Dad’s grave often since he passed. Easter felt like a good enough reason to do so again.

Duke was baptized in the Ukrainian Orthodox church in the fifties. Eventually, his mother moved the family over to the Lutheran side of things due to the language barrier. As a kid, he and his parents and siblings attended every Sunday, with an occasional trip to White Castle afterwards if the kids were good.

He eventually turned into an adult who said his prayers every night, but for the most part only found himself in church for weddings and funerals. He had a rule for attending weddings, though; he’d only attend one of your weddings. If you got divorced, he wasn’t going to another one. It wasn’t a religious rule; he just didn’t like doing things twice.

Whatever it is that church, mosque, temple, or hot yoga brings people - a sense of pause, peace, reflection - I think Duke found that in the movie theater. He called it “the Show House.” Movies have a way of showing the full spectrum of the human experience, and emotions were my Dad’s favorite things to read. He had a keen awareness of the dissonance between what people say versus what they do. And Duke loved a good show.

Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman was his favorite film, and “Plastic Jesus” was a song from the movie he’d sing to himself often.

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