For Mother's Day, Tribune film critic Michael Phillips sat down with his mother to talk about their shared love of movies.
Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly in the groundbreaking 1951 musical"An American in Paris."Mom was up for it, so here it is. Name: Jean Gallagher Phillips, born in Racine, Wisconsin, raised in Kenosha. Age: 90. Disposition: excellent. And “marbles,” as she likes to say: “mostly lucid.”We saw a lot of films together growing up.
A: Oh, gosh. Well. This was at College of Saint Mary in Omaha, which is still there. A small Catholic women’s school. I was a senior, second semester , when my mother said: “I think we can afford to send you there.” My brother, you see, was in pre-med and in those years, it was all about the guys going to college. Not so much the girls. There was no mention of college to me until suddenly I heard where I was going. My friend from high school, Bonnie Thom, was going there, too.
Q: I’m forever grateful to you and Dad for taking me up to Milwaukee and down to Chicago to see movies. When I was 7 I didn’t want to wait for “2001: A Space Odyssey” to come to Racine, and you were nice enough to take me up to Milwaukee to see it.Q: Well, it was a lot to take in, compared with “The Love Bug.” Do you remember the car ride home when I asked so many questions —— you just turned to me and said, “You know, Michael, I really don’t have a single answer for you.” Nice as could be.
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