He died yesterday.
I fell madly, deeply, and truly in love with him on a beautiful, sunny day in 1980.
Truth: Ugly, Brutal, Real
Ridley Scott’s epic film Kingdom of Heaven (2005) stars Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons, Eva Green, and host of others.
This is a film about ideas–substantial ones. And it is about truth that is ugly, brutal, but real.
Love, Paradise, & Johnny Cash
Like Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, and Spock and Captain Kirk, theirs was a great love story.
He was married with children. She was married with children. And maybe it was wrong, wrong, wrong. And I do not condone infidelity.
Remembrance: Deep, Meaningful, True
The very best films break open your heart; or remind you of something very important that you may have long forgotten or buried in some dark corner of your mind; or delight your heart and your mind with a new recognition of the stunning beauty and power of the human potential.
Yes, I Am Queen of Sheba
I love the 1958 movie Long, Hot Summer, starring the beautiful, blue-eyed Paul Newman (Ben Quick); a very young Joanne Woodward (Clara Varner); and a husky, swarthy, bearish Orson Welles (Will Varner).
This movie has a definite tone of the America South. And the dialogue is, well, good. Here is one of my favorite pieces expressed passionately by Miss Clara to Mr. Quick:
Do You Want to Live Forever?
I recently saw the film The Age of Adaline. It is yet another contrived tale of youth, beauty, love, and immortality. Beautiful people. Beautiful outfits Beautiful scenes. Beautifully quiet.
It Was Always Lucille
Last week a legendary blues artist and guitarist died. And by his own account he had fathered 15 children with 15 different women (more or less) and had 50 grandchildren.
When my mum told me he had died and the fact that he had fathered 15 children with multiple women, I texted to four of my closest friends: “A famous man died last night leaving behind 15 children with multiple women and 50 grandchildren. What does this factoid say about the man?”
And I love him! I love him!
I want you to meet a very important man in my life. From the first few measures, before he even uttered a single word, I knew, I knew, that this was the beginning of a lifelong, beautiful love affair.