Bill Clinton as Jimmy Stewart?

I have another blog that's mostly about movies, football, and flat attempts at humour. I didn't know whether to post this at that blog or this one. But I realized that people who read that one and don't read this one probably won't know who Coretta Scott King was, and it's much easier to adequately sum up The Philadelphia Story than to do justice both to the late Mrs. King's life and to brevity as well. If that dichotomy doesn't pique your interest, then I don't know what will.

The Philadelphia Story is a 1939 movie in which Cary Grant stars as an old-money divorced man, and Katie Hepburn as his snobby divorcer. Someone who is not as widely remembered as Grant or Hepburn plays her new-money fiancé, and Jimmy Stewart plays an underrated novelist who writes for gossip rag to make ends meet - and later falls in love with Hep, whom he's been assigned to humiliate in print.

It's more complicated than that, but I just wanted to say that Bill Clinton's elegy for Mrs. King, especially the part where he says she's a real woman, sounded, both in the qualities of his voice and in the words he used, hauntingly similar to Stewart's protestation of love for Hep. I don't think there's anything to be read into that. That's just what it reminded me of.

SRS