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Ok, for the past few years my Valentine's day wishes have taken a theme from "The Women", however not this year.

Doing some cleaning last weekend, came upon a stack of VCR tapes and went through to determine which should be chucked into the bin, and what could stay; then saw the copy of "Moonstruck".

Popped the video into the VCR, and poured myself a glass of wine and munched some snacks, and haven't stopped laughing and or crying since! Indeed think I've watched the darn thing everynight since!

Why? Well the movie is about love in all it's forms. Love one doesn't know about yet, taking something for love, even though you know it isn't but the thought of being alone is too much to bear. Love that has lasted thoughout the years and matured into something beautiful. Oh heck, skip all that, the film has Cher, Nicholas Cage, and a host of great actors, not to mention beautiful Brooklyn and Manhattan scenes.

Mainly love the film because it reminded me of growing up, and all my Irish and Italian friends ( and their families). Yes there was lots of shouting, but there was love there as well.

What Valentine Day wish could be complete without a song?

 
What Valentine Day wish would be complete w/o a song

Thanks for the Vikki Carr song video, Launderess.It brought back memories. ...
It wasn't Valentines Day, but rather her Birthday many years back when I took my late mother to the Goodtime Theater at Knotts Berry Farm to see Vikki Carr.
Bless this wonderful website! ... Always a surprise around almost every corner. ...

-Russell-
 
The film was brilliant in conveying the fact that even when imperfect, love is what motivates us, and we have no control, just like we can't own the moon, but only live in awe of its power to compel us.
 
Still an all time favorite. I watch it frequently and it hits home for so many of us that grew up in the boroughs in ethnic families.

Also, what I found incredible was that every Italian American father of the 60's had that Vikki Carr record and played it over and over again. Those scenes were right on the money!!!
 
We watched it Sunday night on TCM

I had seen it many times, but my partner had not. Not a fan of Cher, he grudgingly watched it. But he really did enjoy it after all. Nicholas Cage is such a beautiful man in that movie. My favorite scene is after they make love the first time and the next morning he says to her "But I'm in love with you!" and she smacks him upside the head and says "Snap out of it!"

Also loved the scene of the old mother in Sicily waving goodbye from her death bed. Classic!
 
Olympia Dukakis

As the mother, caputures so many of the Italian-American moms I knew growing up. Her sighs, grunts, pinching, hand movements and above all advice. For instance when she tells Cher her fiance is coming over "he'll be here in a minute, cover up that love bite for god sakes,put some make-up on that thing,,, your life is going down the toilet" *LOL*

But of course Mrs. C gets one of the best film lines ever spoken by an actress "old man, you give those dogs any more of my food, and I'm gonna kick ya till your dead".

Just for the record, the house where "MoonStruck" was filmed in Brooklyn Heights, was recently sold for about four million USD. The couple sold after owning the home for years (since about the 1960's, when the area wasn't so "hot"), for the same reasons many older people sell their homes; the children had grown up and moved away, and they really did not need that big house.
 
I loved that movie!

I'm glad you brought this up. Over the years I've asked many Italians why, in "Moonstruck" whenever they drink that Asti or Prosecco, they put sugarcubes in the glasses? Do any of you know what that's about? I've gotten lots of theories, but no one has come up with a definitive answer.
 

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