Movie Nostalgia Comes to the Metropolitan Museum

Maybe the Metropolitan Museum was jealous of the Metropolitan Opera and wanted to go to the movies too!

How else to explain the spring offerings of learned(?) discussions and full-length multiple moving screenings devoted to Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, and that newcomer, Woody Allen? Two lectures devoted to Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, with film clips and recordings, are also on the bill.

Classic films are a time-honored part of the Museum of Modern Art's curatorial purview, but have no art-historical home at the Met, except as part of the upcoming lecture series, which was advertised in the "Arts & Leisure" section of yesterday's NY Times (but is not yet, at this writing, up on the Met's website).

If movie nostalgia doesn't suit your fancy, maybe old Broadway musicals will:

Spring is here and love is in the air, when June LeBell and special guest stars sing and talk about all your favorite love songs from Broadway's great shows in two informal programs devoted to Broadway in Love.

The second of those is called, "Swooning and Spooning."

What is the Met saying here about the age demographics of its target audience? Does anyone still "spoon"? If so, you'll surely want to spoon with June.