Sunday, July 24, 2005

Chicago connection

I was watching The Princess Bride for the umpteenth time last night and noticed something I'd never paid attention to before: the story, of course, occurs in the fictional country of Florin, but the reading of the story takes place in Chicago. Either than or the Grandson (Fred Savage, of Wonder Years fame) has an inordinate obsession with Chicago sports teams. He's wearing Chicago Bears pajamas and has a Chicago Cubs pennant on his wall. It's not Ferris Bueller or The Blues Bothers for local color, but it technically counts as a Chicago movie, no?