“Around the World in 80 Days,” October 17, 2004, DVD. Little Bronwen and I watched this video while her mom was off at a conference. The original, with David Niven and an amazingly young Shirley Maclain and Cantinfloss as the Mexican butler make this worth watching as a curiosity piece. Lots of very silly cameos by stars of the day (Sinatra as a piano player, and Marlene Deitrich come to mind right off the bat). It lays out every ethnic and racial prejudice of its day, that is the late 1950s. Watch it with a kid so that you can explain why it’s such a mess. It’s long and scenes go on way to long (a five minute bullfight that goes nowhere?). But it was shot all over the world, and that was very unusual for its day also. It’s really from another time and era.