Edmonds Beacon - Your Hometown News Source

I fell in love with movies as a child, almost certainly because they were a treat. My parents had three little kids and pennies were definitely being pinched, so movies were special.

And with the rug rats, the best option was usually the drive-in theater, which routinely had double features, the first often a family-friendly movie, allowing for us to fall asleep in the backseat before the second film started.

I wasn’t about to sleep, so I caught at least portions of some pretty good movies when I was little. Given the era, and my parents, I wasn’t likely to see something disturbing, ju...