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I Am Prone to Inappropriate Laughter

Or, anyway, I [i]was[/i], like many teenagers, prone to inappropriate laughter back in the day.

My fondest memory of this happened on a blind date when I was in my mid teens.

The movie was: [i]The Bramble Bush[/i] starring Richard Burton.

It was a way too serious film with many characters and a complicated plot. The way I vaguely remember it is: It was the tragic story of a conflicted married woman who had a secret affair with a messed up man who had an evil brother who was a gangster who knew an illegal abortionist who got murdered by a schizophenic serial killer who was married to a retarded heroin junkie whose ex-husband was a mob hit man who killed a woman because she knew too much about a jewelry heist involving an old bootlegger who was blackmailing a man who...

OK, I admit I don't really remember the actual story line and plot but the above is an approximation. Maybe too many screenwriters were involved.

Toward the conclusion of this messed up Hollywood clunker, at the height of the melodrama, I couldn't take it anymore and burst into mad laughter. I was about 15 years old, and I couldn't stop myself.

Finally, two ushers had to lift me up by my arms and drag me, laughing hysterically, out of the theatre. They kindly placed me on a red plush sofa in the theatre lobby.

I still laugh when I think of that movie. The line that set me off occured in the climactic trial scene where the DA says, "I call to the stand JOE DOAKS!" And suddenly, an old woman in black stands up waving a black umbrella and screams: "JOE DOAKS HAS BEEN INSANE SINCE 1936!!!"

That line can still set me off.
eftelingrose · 26-30, F
Oh my gosh! This is so funny! Thank you for sharing this story with us... the richest! 😆

 
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