Love Is In The Air ~ Some Of YOUR Favorites

I am still posting Love Is In The Air clips until Valentine's Day. Yep. If you're new to this business, let me tell you how it all started...
 
Charity Bradford, one of the contributors to the blog Unicorn Bell, posted THIS asking for people to contribute their favorite romantic scenes from movies and TV. You simply shouldn't challenge a YouTube junkie to come up with this sort of stuff. I spent the next few HOURS looking for footage. Yes, you read that right. Hours.

I am tagging all of these Love Is In The Air and you can go back to my January 18 post to watch any that you missed.

Moonlighting 

Roswell - Michael and Maria

P.S. I Love You

The Gilmore Girls

Buffy/Angel and Firefly/Serenity

Grey's Anatomy (dedicated to Unicorn Bell)

Lois and Clark (Smallville) and Some Kind of Wonderful

Back at the beginning of this thing I asked YOU to share what you think are the most romantic moments on the big and small screen. Today, I am going to share some of YOUR FAVORITES! Sit back and enjoy. Happy Saturday everyone!!!!

Courtesy of Rockynrobyn at Life By Chocoloate: Robyn Alana Engel's Blog:

For those of you who missed that 80s movie, it is a classic. When Harry Met Sally. It has everything. Humor. Friendship. The Sad. The Happy. And the Romantic. You get it all with this one!  Thanks Robyn!!!

Courtesy of Empty Nest Insider:


The Way We Were. I can only speak to my own experience with this movie. But it was sad sad sad. I watched it for the first time on HBO back when I was in junior high school. I think it was the first time I realized that loving someone wasn't always enough. These two loved each other like crazy but they lived in different worlds with different value systems and it was not going to work. Period. I remember crying so hard my nose went numb. Mind you, the movie finished right about dinner time. My mom kept saying to me, "Stop that crying. We are trying to eat here."

I kept saying, "But it's just so sad." Waaaah.

They she says, "Well, I told you it was going to be sad. You shouldn't have watched it."

My response: "But it was just so good."

Unfortunately, one of those dinners I'll never forget. And it was all true. It was one of the saddest things I'd ever seen. And it was just so good.

Thank you Julie!!!

Tune in tomorrow for more of your favorites! And if you have a favorite romantic scene that you haven't shared yet let me know in the comments!!!

Did you like When Harry Met Sally? The Way We Were?

Hooked On A Feeling (MQW).

Normally, Alex J. Cavanaugh hosts Movie Quote Wednesday today.  In fact, the designated theme for this week: Romantic Comedy.  This was supposed to go off last week (I think it was intended to coincide with V-Day), but Alex was so log-jammed that it didn't happen.  Ironically, the poor guy had so many things on his plate this week that Movie Quote Wednesday came and went and totally missed his blog.  However, I have been putting in BRAIN TIME trying to come up with something for this event, so I am still playing.

"All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband."            ~Marie, When Harry Met Sally 

This Rob Reiner movie is funny, but it also taps into every single person's greatest fear: staying single forever.  In fact, this line is coming directly from that place of fear.  Isn't that every person's nightmare?  Meeting someone, thinking he might be the one, and then having him marry someone else because you didn't act quickly enough?  Or be good enough, right enough, or just enough?  Whatever that is?  

I honestly had a difficult time choosing a Best Line from this movie.  The writers Spread the Dialogue Love around.  Oftentimes, the writers fall in love with one character and give that character all the Best Lines.  Not in this film.  Everyone got The Love.  Here's another Beauty:

"Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours."                                   ~Harry, When Harry Met Sally 

Billy Crystal is fabulous in this, if for no other reason than he is an unlikely leading man in a Romantic Comedy.  He is not particularly good looking.  But, he is funny as all get out.  He is horribly un-PC in this movie.  And he has just stated out loud THE PROBLEM in most relationships that no one wants to say out loud.  People get married because they are hooked on a feeling, and when the feeling goes away, they end up in Divorce Court.  So, you better label your stuff and be prepared to spend thousands over an eight dollar dish.  Why?  Because you RUSHED INTO MARRIAGE YOU IDIOTS.  But, you're my friends so I can't call you an idiot, per se, so I am telling you to label your books, so you will know how to divvy them up later...


One of the best things about this movie is that these two characters, Harry and Sally, actually become good friends in this movie.  Ironically, they do this in spite of the fact that Harry states at the beginning of the movie that "men and women can't be friends."  It turns out that he is wrong about that.  They continue to meet up over the years, and after Harry goes through a very painful divorce and Sally is dumped by her long-time boyfriend, they do, in fact, become friends.  At that point, they have no interest in a relationship.  They just want to put themselves back together, and they discover that they genuinely like one another.  Of course, the best "relationships" are grounded in friendship, as they will ultimately discover.  But, then anyone who sees the movie knows this... and anyone who hasn't should know it is coming.  It is a Romantic Comedy.

I think this is one of the Best Dialogues of the Movie:

Harry Burns: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.   
Sally Albright: Which one am I?
Harry Burns: You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.  
Sally Albright: I don't see that.  
Harry Burns: You don't see that? Waiter, I'll begin with a house salad, but I don't want the regular dressing. I'll have the balsamic vinegar and oil, but on the side. And then the salmon with the mustard sauce, but I want the mustard sauce on the side. "On the side" is a very big thing for you. 
Sally Albright: Well, I just want it the way I want it.  
Harry Burns: I know; high maintenance.

I think that this conversation might have been the invention of the High Maintenance-Low Maintenance "thing."  In fact, it is terminology that I don't hear much anymore.  Frankly, I don't think that there is anything wrong with being High Maintenance.  Sally is right: she wants it the way she wants it.  However, Harry is right, too.  She is the worst kind for not recognizing that she is High Maintenance.  The great thing is that he feels perfectly free to call her out on it.  That is being a good friend.

Another sign that they are moving into the best friend zone, which is the perfect place to launch a relationship from if both people are so inclined... You feel free to show true, genuine emotion in front of that person.  In other words, you can "ugly cry" in front of them.   Let's take a look:







"Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up."  Hahahahaha.  This scene reminds me of why I like this movie so much.  Loving someone is about more than falling in love with them.  It is actually loving them.  Those are two very different things.  Good to know.

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TAKE ME TO THE CAR WASH

You are going to be thrilled to discover that this is another Random Post from me. This one might be even more random than most. I can actually feel your eyes glazing over. Scary. The problem is too many topics rolling around in my brain. Of course, that is usually the case with these random posts. If I could settle on one thing it wouldn't be random.

I started reading THE OUTSIDERS today. I can't believe how much I forgot. The feeling I remembered, but most of the actual plot, I forgot. I am about halfway through.


I had a really terrible migraine yesterday that kept me in bed most of the day. I kinda sorta dozed. I thought a lot about my celebrity crush who shall go unnamed. I haven't had a celebrity crush since I was teenager. Fictional crushes. All of the time. Pretty much any book I am reading, there is some sort of crush going on at least until the book ends. Characters in movies, TV shows, etc. But not the actual person. It's the character. For instance, I crushed on Angel for ten years. And now I have a crush on Sealy Booth. Yes, they are both played by David Boreanz, but my God, could they be more different? No way. And the crush pretty much lasts the duration of the show and then I forgot them until next week. Why is this? Well, because Clark Kent, Dean Winchester, McSteamy, McDreamy, and Alex Karev are all taking up space in my brain in between now and then. I think you get where I am going with this. They all get their hour in the sun and then lights off until next week.

So, it was me, my migraine, and my celeb crush. You know what I discovered? My fantasy life sucks. Do you remember that scene in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, and Harry and Sally are discussing fantasies? And he asks if she has them and she admits she does, but then says the only thing that distinguishes one from another is what she's wearing. It's her outfits. Yeah, mine were kinda like that. I think it's why I kept falling asleep. My fantasies were boring me. Well, it could have been the medication and the migraine. But still...

I am fairly certain that I have not confessed on here my personal connection to Ally McBeal. I felt like that was the show that "got me." Ally and I were the same. For the most part. In the ways that counted. I didn't have hallucinations, I was never a lawyer, I didn't have to work with my first love (and his wife), but we felt the same way about things. In other words, we were financially independent women whose lives were one dating disaster after another. She just had more sex and she said what she thought. I just thought it. So, I related to her in a fairly major way. Getting back to yesterday...

Anyway, after I got up last night all groggy and really annoyed. And still migrainey. I took a shower. For those of you not in the know, it is also called The Think Tank. While I was in The Think Tank I remembered the season opener (at the time I couldn't recall if it was 2 or 3) of Ally McBeal when she comes into the office all wet over the weekend. Turns out she went through a car wash. The kind where you are supposed to stay inside the vehicle. Well... there was this really hot guy in the car wash giving her the come hither look, so she got out of the car and they had sex in the car wash. She never knew his name but she looked really.really.really.happy. Of course, that didn't last. She ended up taking this case for some woman and won it. Woman was so happy that she asked Ally to be a bridesmaid. Ally is walking down the aisle and guess who the groom is? You can see this coming now, right? Car wash guy. Of course, Ally speaks up at the point where you can stop the wedding and it all goes down the tube for the bride and groom.

One would think, that would be the end of that. It was either the next episode, or a few later, they reappear. The car wash guy shows up at Ally's office asking her to try and convince the bride that it meant nothing (or something like that). Well, they end up having sex again in her office. Jeez. This time, Ally is the one saying let's keep this on the down low. In the end, Car Wash Guy and Her Client got married and Ally attended the wedding, but not as a bridesmaid. However, the best part of the show was the end ~ and I cannot find it on the Internet anywhere ~ which stuns me. Of course, I can't remember it exactly. However, it is total Ally. She and Renee and Whipper are talking about this crazy wedding and Ally's involvement with Car Wash Guy. They know that she slept with him twice. And Ally says something like, "After thinking about this for a while I have decided that he wasn't so fantastic in bed after all." Renee and Whipper just stop and stare at her like she's nuts b/c Ally has gone on and on about what great sex this was. Ally continues, "I have decided that it was me. I am amazing in bed and he, you know, kept up."


On the positive side, I think I have completely let go of the man formerly known as Right Guy. Since he clearly is not Right Guy, his handle will have to change. I am thinking Mr. Electric or Speed of Sound. You can cast your votes on that one. How did this happen? I implemented my plan like I would for forgiveness. I just had a strong desire to let him go, and I woke up one day and realized that it had happened. It feels good.

As for me and my fantasy life, I think I just have to use the aforementioned above plan and see what happens. I hope I don't catch on fire. ;-)Laters peeps.


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