>>I was just flipping channels, seeing if there was a football game worth watching with the Bears having the day off. There wasn't, unless you want to decide who you dislike more between the Giants and Eagles. And the channel guide showed "Titanic." Of course I clicked.
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>>The scene at the moment was the one with Leo and Kate steaming up the car. This being the USA Network, they cut away before she revealed her breasts. (A situation she has since remedied many times). Call me a romantic but I love this movie. The USA Network version was too many long commercial breaks for me. I have it on DVD and it will make an excellent rewatch with the girls over holiday break. Maybe it will even displace "Die Hard" as my favorite Christmas movie.
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>>Those who despise "Titanic" are legion. Some consider it mawkish and overly sentimental, which is partially true. Some sensed James Cameron's growing ego. Some simply didn't like its success. I don't care about any of that and still don't. To me it's a great movie, an epic tale on the big screen.
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>>It won 10 Academy Awards. At a time when $100 million was considered through the roof, it took in something like $300 million at the box office. In the U.S. And $100 million in England. And $100 million in Germany. In Japan showings were sold out two weeks in advance. It was a world wide phenomenon.
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>>I first saw it at a Saturday afternoon matinee when Tricia and the girls were away for the weekend visiting one of her college friends. The ticket line extended to the end of the strip mall sidewalk and around the corner. The theater itself was appropriately spectacular, a gold era relic the strip mall had been built around. At Sunday dinner after they got back I was still on fire about it and told them everything I could remember. Allie and Emily were 7 and 5, something like that, and listened as raptly as though they were being told a classic fairy tale. The story told itself and didn't need any embellishment from me. The rich girl, the poor boy, the nasty boyfriend (their favorite storybook was "The Paper Bag Princess"), an iceberg at sea, people living and dying, love and hope. Their favorite character was the same as mine, the old lady who had been Rose. They liked it that she took her paintings with her onto a ship.
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>>The actress, Gloria Stuart, died just a few months ago. As her character said in the movie, she was indeed a dish.
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>>It's a movie for romantics. But I defy you to resist it. Titanic .... for the holidays ;-)
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>Are you drinking? Just asking because you get sentimental and then later morose....

No. And I wasn't feeling morose then or now. Can't I compliment a movie?