This year on Valentines Day, Bruce and I are celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary. Ours is truly a love story ... the kind they write about in the movies. We first met in 1974, I was 16 and he was 19. We were instantly smitten - and we dated for about 6 months. Our lives took different directions... and 25 years later we ran into each other again. We knew we were soul mates, but timing had not been on our side. The 9/11 disaster awakened the reality that life is short - and the timing was right to be together. We married 5 months later - and while we have only been married 6 years, our hearts have been joined since the day we met in Dec. of 1974.
So - in honor of my Valentine and this season of Love....
I am posting 5 of my favorite movies about Love....
1. Dirty Dancing
1987 - Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
Dancing - soundtrack and boy from wrong side of the tracks falls in love with rich girl...
and we learn "nobody puts Baby in the corner" - (I've had) The Time of My Life -
I get cold chills just thinking about Baby jumping into the arms of Johnny....
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/24206/603183
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/
2. Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy
This is another story of two women - that share a transcendent love. Idgie and Ruth were steadfast and devoted to one another in a time (1930's) when the love they shared was completely taboo. This movie has the same theme as the Dixie Chicks, "Earls Gotta Die" - and tells their heroic love story of finally ending the legacy of abuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euIAWlvpXqg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/
3. The Goodbye Girl
1974 Richard Dreyfus and Marsha Mason
This has been re-made, but I love the 1974 screen version of this Neil Simon play
Marsha Mason is a single mother in the 1970's trying to make ends meet. Her boyfriend has left her and has sublet his aparment to a struggling actor. In true Neil Simon style - the story is full of laughs and sentimental twists that make us all fall in love again. The timing at the end with David Gates singing "The Goodbye Girl" is perfect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWGfISc576g&feature=related
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076095/
4. Sleepless in Seattle
1993 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
A story about true soul-mates - Sam is a widow and Annie is engaged to Walter. Annie hears Sam on a radio talk show.... and the kismet she 'hears' takes her on a journey across the United States to follow her heart. Time, distance - nothing can separate them because they KNEW it was RIGHT~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CHda8BRvwg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/
5. Shrek
2001 Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz
Who doesn't love a story about a big Ogre getting the Princess? This is one of the best!
I know the dialogue by heart. Once upon a time in a land far, far away....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJeS8GDTcI
http://www.shrek.com/main.php
Honorable mention -
City of Angels, Ghost, West Side Story, Rocky, It's a Wonderful Life, Family Man...
and the list goes on and on and on...
(Remember, I was also born on Valentines day - I was born with a Romantic Heart!)
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