Last week we finally saw The Greatest Showman. It’s been out
since before Christmas, but we couldn’t get tickets until now. Critics hate
this film, primarily because of its historical inaccuracies. I guess they have
a point. P. T. Barnum was a dozen years older than Hugh Jackman when he founded
what would become the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He certainly
wasn’t anywhere near as good looking as the star of Les Misérables and X-Men,
and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t as good a singer or dancer. The real Barnum was the kind
of fellow who’d hire the tallest guy he could find and parade him on stilts,
wearing vertically striped silk trousers. In defense of his “humbuggery,”
Barnum said that if, at the end of the day, the audience had been entertained,
they’d got their money’s worth. Go see this movie. I promise you’ll find it
entertaining. If you can find tickets.
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