Romance in all it's innocence.
Doris Day and Rock Hudson in a collection of their 50s innocence. Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers. Before Rock was gay, before Doris was doing porn and before Tony Randall was impregnating 20 year olds while he was in his 70s.
Dirty Dancing. Patrick Swayze. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." I lost my heart and never recovered it.
Il Divo: Live in Barcelona. Understand why they inspire us. A live concert CD and DVD. If you don't fall in love with Spanish baritones, then you aren't us.
To enter: Please enter a comment about your first foray into romance. Was it a romantic movie like the sweet Pillow Talk with Doris and Rock? Was it voices singing about love? Or perhaps seeing Patrick :sigh: Swayze for the first time.
Contest ends March 7. Please include an email address. We will send to other countries but the DVDs are NTSC and not PAL.
OMG I love Rock and Doris...
ReplyDeleteUmm... do I write something diff to my comment on last post? That was a bit waffly you know. And do you want something more about the first 'romantic' thing you had with a movie/book and not how you started?
Hello, my name is Lea and I am blond.
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First foray huh... omg who can remember that far back... this is gonna be guesswork at best lol
ReplyDeleteWell, I've always loved movies and have seen numerous love stories but the one that really sticks out as a 'first' is Romeo and Juliet - the 1968 version with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting.
No, I didn't see it then, I was barely born but I had to see it for school and was about 15. I remember having the biggest crush on Leonard, who played Romeo. Of course that changed when all the other celebrity crushes came along but for the longest time I was hooked.
It still holds a special place for me as I've managed to get a copy on dvd, so now I can watch whenever I feel nostalgic for the good old days.
I was going to admit that my first 'crush' of sorts was for Tim Curry as Frank'n'Furter after having seen Rocky Horror several times but that's just weird and I won't.
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I first held my husband's hand in front of Rodin's The Kiss at the High Museum of Art. I felt sparks and I knew he was The One. It was our third date. We've been together 14 years and I'm still gooney over him.
ReplyDeleteIs that romantic enough to win some DVD's?
Aside from movie classics and Disney giving me unrealistic expectations of love (Sleeping Beauty - she meets a guy in the forest once and all of a sudden, he's the one? Cinderella - a glance at a ball? really? True love? I could go on) my first foray with "romance" was with those Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies. My mother used to love to watch those while she was ironing on a Saturday morning and one of her favorites was Sleepless in Seattle which we had on VHS. She also liked to watch Joe Versus the Volcano and later You've Got Mail. So romance, to me because we weren't allowed to watch anything explicit or "real" basically, was this magical comedy of bad and improbable things working out to make love and happiness. Maybe that's what my love life is now, just a plot of unfortunate circumstance waiting for it's comedic yet endearing ending where I find true love. Thanks Disney,Tom, Meg, and of course my mother.
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