Michael is out tonight, filling in for Terry Gelenter at a film screening — Bringing up Baby, which we both watched over the weekend and disliked. Katherine Hepburn, usually so forceful and interesting, plays one of those chattering flitterbigibbits men adore and women usually just want to smack.

This is the first reference to a film event that I would spend twenty years programming, managing, etc. Mechanics’ Institute’s CinemaLit. Terrence Gelenter was its founder. Almost three years after this diary entry, I would be hired as an assistant and CinemaLit coordinator for MI’s Events Department. A few years after that, Michael would take over as curator from Terrence, who followed a lifelong dream by moving to Paris (where he still lives.) Michael would be curator there for about a decade.

BRINGING UP BABY is the only Depression-era screwball comedy I have seen that I dislike.