Storm
Kirschen-
!mum
Residence:
Franklin
Occupation:
Student
Most
Romantic
Movie: Top Gun
Most Romantic Scene: 'When
[Demi Moore and Tom Cruise]
were riding on the motorcycle
— that was really romantic."
Toni
Bradley
Residence:
Farmington
Hills
Occupation:
Public
school
employee
and homemaker
Most Romantic Movie: Jerry
Maguire
Most Romantic Scene: "When
[Tom Cruise] comes into the
living room, and he finally
realizes he loves [Rene
Zellweger]."
Beth
Bernstein
Residence:
West
Bloomfield
Occupation:
Student
Most
Romantic
Movie: Ali Affair to Remember
Most Romantic Scene: "When
[Cary Grant] comes back and
sees the picture, when [Deborah
Kerr] is lying on the couch."
Bonnie
Murphy
Residence:
Farmington
Hills
Occupation:
Court
Reporter
Most
Romantic Movie: Ghost
Most Romantic Scene: "The
whole thing. Because they're
given a second chance to say
goodbye."
-Have Not 1944. Directed by
Howard Hawks. With Humphrey
Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter
Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael,
Marcel Dalio, Sheldon Leonard.
Based on a story by Ernest Hem-
ingway, this is the film in which
Bacall invites Bogie to 'just whis-
tle," and the set on which the
real-life love began.
Coming Home 1978. Direct-
ed by Hal Ashby. Jon Voight and
Jane Fonda won Academy
Awards for this film. The wife of
a Marine officer (Bruce Dern),
Fonda becomes friends with and
eventually falls in love with a par-
alyzed Vietnam vet (Voight). The
movie soars in portraying the
possibility of physical love despite
the most difficult of physical prob-
lems and the barriers created by
emotional pain.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL
Betty Blue 1986. Directed
and written by Jean-Jacques
Beineix. With Beatrice Dalle,
Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gerard
Darmon, Consuelo de Haviland.
Based on the novel 37.2 Le Matin
by Philippe Djian. Music
Dogfight 1991. Di-
by Gabriel Yared. A vivid Jean-Hugues
rected by Nancy Savoca.
Anglade and
film of two French lovers Beatrice Dalle in With River Phoenix, Lili
whose passion leads to
Taylor. Not necessarily a
the haunting
poverty, violence and
Belly Blue.
"love story" per se, but
madness.
definitely worth a men-
tion here. In 1963, a Marine and
Casablanca 1942. Directed his buddies spend his last night
by Michael Curtiz. With before shipping off to Vietnam by
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid throwing a "dogfight" — a com-
Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude petition to see who can bring the
Rains, Pete Lorre, Sydney Green- ugliest date to a party. The shy,
street. Music by Max Steiner. average-looking waitress he
Adapted from an unproduced chooses is played by Taylor.
play, it almost starred George
Raft as Rick.
Harold and Maude 1971. Di-
rected by Hal Ashby. Written by
Doctor Zhivago 1965. Di- Cohn Higgins. With Ruth Gor-
rected by David Lean. Written by don, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Vi-
Robert Bolt. With Omar Sharif, vian Pickles, Charles Tyner,
Julie Christie, Geraldine Chap- Ellen Geer. Music by pre-Islam-
lin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, ic Cat Stevens. A disillusioned
Klaus Kinski, Ralph Richardson. 20-year-old man who is obsessed
Music by Maurice Jarre. Adapt- with suicide meets an eccentric,
ed from the novel by Nobel Prize- fun-loving 80-year-old woman at
winning Russian-Jewish author a funeral (a mutual hobby), and
Boris Pasternak. Although the love blooms. The script was orig-
critics' pans of this film upon its inally Higgins' 20-minute grad-
initial release nearly doomed it, uate thesis, which he showed to
it has now become a classic por- his landlady, wife of the film's fu-
trayal of the passion of Russian ture producer.
literature and the affairs of the
heart.
The Heiress 1949. Directed
by William Wyler. With Olivia de
Havilland, Montgomery Clift.
Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hop-
kins. Adapted from Henry James'
novel Washington Square. Music
by Aaron Copland. A young
woman falls for a man, against
the wishes of her tyrannical fa-
ther, with heartbreaking twists
and turns.
Jean De Florette 1987. Di-
rected by Claude Berri. Written
by Claude Berri, Gerard Brac.
With Gerard Depardieu, Yves
Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisa-
beth Depardieu, Ernestine
Mazurowna. Based on the nov-
el by Marcel Pagnol. Not neces-
sarily a love story, but certainly
among the most heart-wrench-
ing, and should be seen in order
to watch its sequel ...
Manon Of The Spring 1987.
Directed by Claude Berri. Writ-
ten by Claude Berri, Gerard
Brach. With Yves Montand,
Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle
Beart, Hippolute Girardot. Also
based on the novel by Marcel
Pagnol, this sequel to Jean de
Florette is another of the most