musitorial n a mashup of music, musings and editorials, music and song that evokes thought and commentary.
Today’s musitorial is a nod to a popular family television show called The Flying Nun (1967-1970, Executive Producer Harry Ackerman, ABC Screen Gems), starring the vivacious Sally Fields.
Screened in the days of truly family entertainment, the show was immensely popular. I can’t say whether or not it launched Sally Fields’ screen career, because it seems like she’s been around forever, yet seems forever young. The premise of the show was the naïve serial antics of Sister Bertrille (Sally Fields) and the chagrin of superior nuns. Of course, wholesome naiveté wins the day (doesn’t it always) and the hearts of the entire cast and viewers alike.
Anyway, those sisters are not the focus of this musitorial. Instead, I call your attention to a recent case of some nuns who flew the coup, as we say. In Saltzberg, Austria, three octogenarian sisters who had been retired to a nearby nursing home (against their will, apparently) and who escaped from said home to returned to occupy their former – and now derelict – convent where they had previously lived most of their lives.
Let me repeat, three nuns are occupying their former convent against the wishes of the owners of said premises, their former overseers. Wouldn’t Bea Arthur et al (The Golden Girls be inspired?! Granted, not all the characters on the latter show would qualify to reside in a convent, but the reference is hard to resist.
You go girls!
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Link to Wikipedia article about the show, The Flying Nun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Nun
Link to a YouTube clip of the theme music, “Who Needs Wings to Fly?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jcx1xWE8qQ
Link to Wikipedia article about Sally Fields: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Field
Link to CNN (c/o CTV) new item on the incident: https://tinyurl.com/4h89k3m6
Link to Wikipedia article about The Golden Girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls
