More Reel Romance: EW Gets It Right

(http://v2 NULL.singlemindedwomen NULL.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ghost-movie NULL.jpg)Being the romantic I am, not to mention an avid cinephile (http://www NULL.singlemindedwomen NULL.com/womensrelationships/385/reel-romance-do-the-movies-get-it-right NULL.html) (oh, okay, I guess I’m a little more strict about my movie dogma, so actually I’m a cinematrix–and yes, I’ve copyrighted that one), I love it when the movies get love right.

Apparently, so does EW.com (http://www NULL.ew NULL.com), which has put together its own “Top 25 List of Romantic Gestures in Film (http://www NULL.ew NULL.com/ew/gallery/0,,20207076_20207079_20214543,00 NULL.html).” For the most part, I agree with it. I mean, who can argue with Patrick Swayze (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/name/nm0000664/)‘s ethereal love for Demi Moore (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/name/nm0000193/), in Ghost (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/gp/redirect NULL.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww NULL.amazon NULL.com%2FGhost-Special-Collectors-Patrick-Swayze%2Fdp%2FB000LE16VW%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1217350167%26sr%3D1-1&tag=marsvenusadvi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325)? Or the look of post-coital bliss on Kate Winslet (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/name/nm0000701/)‘s face, as she lies there, nude, while her lover, Leonardo DiCaprio (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/name/nm0000138/), sketches her, in Titanic (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/gp/redirect NULL.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww NULL.amazon NULL.com%2FTitanic-10th-Anniversary-Leonardo-DiCaprio%2Fdp%2FB000VS6R26%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1217350743%26sr%3D1-1&tag=marsvenusadvi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325)? Not to mention Julia Roberts (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/name/nm0000210/)‘ radiant smile in Pretty Woman (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/gp/redirect NULL.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww NULL.amazon NULL.com%2FPretty-Woman-15th-Anniversary-Special%2Fdp%2FB00081U7HC%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1217350451%26sr%3D1-1&tag=marsvenusadvi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325), as Richard Gere (http://www NULL.imdb NULL.com/name/nm0000152/) climbs a fire escape, bouquet in hand, to be rescued by her.

Now that’s Blue Ray amore…

Ageless Love: Speaking of love, who says you have to be a twentysomething to experience the passion? A new survey shows that love—and marriage—over 40 is the new 20. I write about it here in today’s Relationships Channel feature…

Summer of Love AND Romance: Because of my own novels, (True Hollywood Lies, Impossibly Tongue-Tied (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060815884/marsvenusadvi-20)) I happened to join a great organization that supoprts women novelists, The Romance Writers of America (http://www NULL.rwanational NULL.org/cs/rwa_author_web_sites). Well, this week many of their 4,000 members have converged on San Francisco this week (my home town) in order to discuss love, lust and romance in a city where it’s an art form.

Two of their very prolific members also happen to be rising stars in that field:

Stephanie Bond (http://www NULL.stephaniebond NULL.com/) has just come out with the third of her BODY MOVERS series, Three Men and a Body (ttp://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0778326071/stephanbondautho)has a cute, gutsy heroine, three men, and Neiman Marcus. What more can a woman ask for? (Oh yeah, a great mystery to boot.)

Karin Tabke (http://www NULL.karintabke NULL.com)‘s Master of Surrender (http://www NULL.amazon NULL.com/Master-Surrender-Karin-Tabke/dp/1416550895/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207247176&sr=1-1) is historical fiction at its best. The first of this eight-book seriees, of eight mercenary knights who escape a Saracen prison in order to fight for William the Conqueror, brings the passion and the fury of that era to life.

Always reading romance,

Josie Brown
Relationships Editor