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Last year at this time, we devoted the Valentine's newsletter to the most romantic moments, quotes, and episodes of Lois & Clark. This year, I asked our columnists to tell us about their favorite romantic movies! You're going to love reading these, because they each came up with good ones! Enjoy:)
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Maggie's Movie Valentine Mouthful
by Maggie13@bellsouth.net


Harry (Voice over): The first time we met we hated each other.
Sally (Voice over): No, you didn't hate me, I hated you.
And the second time we met you didn't even remember me.
Harry (Voice over): I did too, I remembered you.
The third time we met, we became friends.
Sally (Voice over): We were friends for a long time.
Harry (Voice over): And then we weren't.
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I love many, many romantic movies, old ones, new ones, silly network ones,
even Lifetime Original productions. You give me a shot at some romance, a
glimpse of the beauty of the human bond, at least one humorous quirk to
hold on to and I am there. It may not be Shakespeare, or even Minnear
but I'll take it.

So when Molly asked us to write about a favorite romantic movie, my brain
had to go through quite a library. From the classics like Christmas in
Connecticut <--which happens to combine Christmas, a newspaper writer,
mistaken identity, and a cute man who flies (airplanes ofcourse ;o)) hmmm,
I do wonder *why* I like that one so much, must be the lighting ....to
the remakes, Julia Ormond is not Audrey, but I still love both versions
of Sabrina........

However, since I could only pick one movie for today, it just had to be
When Harry Met Sally. It's not the witty banter:

Harry: We've got eighteen hours to kill before we hit New York.
Sally: The story of my life isn't even going to get us out of Chicago
I mean nothing's happened to me yet. That's why I'm going to New York.
Harry: So something can happen to you?
Sally: Yes.
Harry: Like what?
Sally: I can go into journalism school to become a reporter.
Harry: So you can write about things that happen to other people.
Sally: That's one way to look at it.

It's not even the World Class, A, Number One, Lois-Worthy Babbling that
even includes a dash of Kent/Lane-like arguing:

Sally: I'm sorry Harry, I know it's New Years Eve, I know you're feeling
lonely, but you just can't show up here, tell me you love me and expect
that to make everything alright. It doesn't work this way.

Harry: Well how does it work?

Sally: I don't know but not this way.

Harry: Well how about this way. I love that you get cold when it's seventy
one degrees out, I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a
sandwich, I love that you get a little crinkle above you nose when you're
looking at me like I'm nuts, I love that after I spend a day with you I can
still smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last
person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not
because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Years Eve.
I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend
the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life
to start as soon as possible.

Sally: You see, that is just like you Harry. You say things like that and
you make it impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you Harry... I
really
hate you. I hate you.

(They kiss and make up.)

Hmm, don't know about you but I feel major levels of Warmth and Fuzziness
whenever I watch that scene. Ofcourse, when you start looking, there is a
little Lois and Clark everywhere. First they weren't friends. Then they
were. Then they weren't again. And I keep thinking that scene where
they play Charades is their version of a Mayson Drake/Dan Scardino
moment.

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Sally (Voice over): And then we fell in love.
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The best part about this movie for me is watching two friends fall
in love. They trust each other, laugh together, console each other
get really mad, have lots of fun, and just live through
every range of emotion with each other. I love the
conversations they have, the changes they experience,
and even their quirky side-kicks.

Not to mention that now, I can't help but imagine Harry and Sally and Lois
and Clark having dinner with Lois under the table saying something like:
"Clark! she ordered Death By Chocolate and had them put the Fudge on the
side! What was that!? Fudge is not a side dish! It's the Main Ingredient!
Who orders a side dish of Fudge!? "
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(Harry and Sally on the couch this time.)
Sally: Three months later we got married.
Harry: Yeah it only took three months.
Sally: Twelve years and three months.
Harry: We had this... we had a really wonderful wedding.
Sally: It was a, it really was, it was a wonderful wedding.
Harry: Yeah, we had this enormous coconut cake.
Sally: Huge coconut cake, with the, with the... tiers and this... very rich
chocolate sauce on the side.
Harry: Right, 'cos not everybody like it on the cake 'cos it makes it very
soggy.
Sally: Particularly the coconut, soaks up a lot of that stuff, so you
really...it's important to keep it on the side.
Harry: Right.

THE END

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
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Color Me Cristin -- Valentine's Day Edition
By: Cristin (aka she-who-has-no-date)
CKandLL4ever@Juno.com

Happy Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is supposed to make one
think of true love. Thoughts of candy, cards, and flowers are
appropriate. Thoughts of how much being single on this day aren't as well
accepted. Screaming if you see one more stupid heart -- some might say
that is uncalled for. Frankly, I despise v-day. The way I see it, if
someone has already found the love of their life, why should they get
their own holiday??? If there was a Grinch-like character for
Valentine's, that'd be me. Oh well, on to my romantic movie choices....

My all-time favorite movie is Gone With The Wind. Yes, Rhett
(Clark Gable) and Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) end up seperate, but the movie
does focuse on love quite a bit! See, Scarlett is a flirt. She is all
over every guy, and every guy is drooling over her. That is, until the
war starts. Scarlett decides she loves Ashley Wilkes (yeah, Ashley is a
guy... though I expect most of you have seen it). She goes through three
husbands and a lot of years before she realizes that she doesn't want
Ashley. By this time, she has lost the favor of her husband, Rhett
Butler. Alas, alack, she'll be okay... because, "With God as my witness,
I'll never go hungry again!!!" Read the original (By Margaret
Mitchell) and the sequel, Scarlett, (By Alexandra Ripley).

The best love movie I've seen lately is Shakespeare In Love. This
tells the story of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and Viola
Delussups (Gwyneth Paltrow). In this movie, Shakespeare is a poet who
believes he has lost his gift. Then he meets Viola and is inspired.
However, she must marry Lord Wessex. So it shows that the famous play
Romeo and Juliet is really the tale of William and Viola's love with a
few name changes and some blurred details. :o) Cool, huh? So, see the
movie and go read Romeo and Juliet (or reread it like me ).

I was going to come up with another one, but I think that is more
than you cared to know already. :o) So, til next time, FoLCs :o)

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