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Show s He likes the fights, I like the kissing j By MAIU'IXI.A WALKKK In the newspaper last week was an article about President Reagan giving pithy advice to 75 senators he had in for breakfast on Thursday. The president noted that cameras were beginning to record senate sessions and he went back to his acting days to come up with some advice on how to do television. He said, "You learn your lines, don't bump into the furniture and in kissing scenes keep your mouth closed." I thought this was very in- -teresting. At least the pari about keeping your mouth closed while kissing. I understand that with the threat of AIDS now, the standard procedure is to kiss with your mouth closed in all Hollywood productions. Actually, it is preferable to not kiss at all if it can be avoided. Some of the scenes I have seen on TV or at the movies in the past few years would make you believe that there is no worry about the disease at all. Obviously, the actors and,,. ,,, actresses .are. putting morjnto theijr ' kisses than they did in ' the puritanical days of old. It may not be as pure but it is certainly more interesting in-teresting than the old way. I'll state right up front here that kissing is one of my favorite things. I only watch some shows to see the' kissing. In a live play I don't even p.g. blah want to go unless there is some kissing between the good looking guy and the good looking girl. I saw "Clouds of Glory" the other night at the Valley Center Playhouse in Lindon. There was some good kissing in it and it looked like they enjoyed it. That is the way it should be. w Sometimes you see a TV show or a 'live play where the hero and the heroine are so standoffish you are afraid they will never kiss and when they do it sort of slides off to the side of the mouth and across the cheek and ends up in a reserved hug. Yuck. I like the romance. My husband likes the fights and I like the kissing. There is a lot more fighting than there is kissing, though, and it is very frustrating. Have you ever noticed that as you are watching TV, the males lean in closer to the set when the fight scenes come on? I'm sure they are pretending that they are right in the fight with the actors. It is a vicarious and safe way of getting rid of their own urges to lake someone on. Okay, the men are going to come back and say, "Well, the girls lean in closer to the TV when the kissing scenes come on and they are pretending that they are right there in the arms of that man getting kissed. It is a vicarious and safe way for girls to get rid of their own romantic notions." Women have more romantic notions than men, have you noticed? Every girl would like to have the boy hold her hand, put his arm around her in public as well as private, and kiss her hand and her mouth on a regular basis. Men, as a rule, do not think in those lines and have no inkling that;', their- girl., is craving these-"lifUe touching moments.' On the other hand, girls do not realize that men like to see macho stuff and though they are not he-men themselves, they like to pretend toughness. My husband delights in sneaking a look at my face when a romantic scene is on and teases me about tht little smile that he finds there 9 y course, I have learned to watch face when the fight scene is onand t can see the eagerness in his eyes as he awaits the next punch be . thrown. 1 1 There are all different kinds d kisses. There is the very wet kiss of my one year old granddaughter. There is the nice smack on my chert f from a daughter in a special mood s There is the dry, very brief kiss from t the aunt. There is the sweet and tender kiss of the husband in a , moment of surprise, and there is tin a passionate kiss we sometimes seen j the screen and once in a while err j counter in life. Of course, there are also Her- shey's kisses which I love, too, and 0 candy kisses that come wrapped ii ?a; waxed paper and are twisted on the ends and are sometimes called taffy. I don't care for that kissing stuff that the celebrities give each other when they meet, like on Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, and the Mike. Although, I don't think as mm, kissing goes on "on MerVs shojf.ita" Johnny's. Doesn't it -strike you as kind of fake? I like real kisses. I have never kissed the Blarney Stone, nor the Pope's ring, nor even good old American soil, but kissing h is still one of my favorite things. J How about you? Ii |