{"id":56,"date":"2015-09-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/26\/42movies-day-16-when-curtis-met-deeann\/"},"modified":"2015-09-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T16:00:00","slug":"42movies-day-16-when-curtis-met-deeann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/26\/42movies-day-16-when-curtis-met-deeann\/","title":{"rendered":"#42Movies, Day 16: When Curtis Met DeeAnn&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2015\/09\/42movies-day-15-strong-female-characters.html\">strong female characters<\/a>&#8230; These two films figured prominently in the week when I met the woman who is now my wife:<\/p>\n<p><b>Titanic (1997)<\/b><br \/>and<br \/><b>As Good As It Gets (1997)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll explain after the trailers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CHekzSiZjrY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CHekzSiZjrY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/CHekzSiZjrY<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rrRl2QQKkI8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rrRl2QQKkI8\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/rrRl2QQKkI8<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>In December of 1997, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/deeannsole\">DeeAnn<\/a>&mdash;who was living near Chicago at the time&mdash;flew out to the Bay Area to visit her best friend from high school, Karin, who (with her husband Bryan) happened to be my next-door apartment neighbor at the time. We actually met at another movie, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfordtheatre.org\/\">Stanford Theatre<\/a>&#8216;s annual Christmas Eve screening of <i>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/i> (the viewing of which has become a holiday tradition for us).<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen <i>Titanic<\/i> at that time, but DeeAnn was talking about it when she first arrived. So I went to see a matinee (I was working for AT&amp;T at the time, and the company shut down for the entire week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day), so I could talk to her about it in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that was probably a signal right there.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, all four of us went to see <i>As Good As It Gets<\/i> together. It&#8217;s a small, quirky movie, but makes good use of its <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist\">unsympathetic comedy protagonist<\/a> (played by Jack Nicholson) to push all the characters into unexpected situations and relationships which blossom into real human concerns. Okay, that flowery description might oversell it, but it&#8217;s good beyond my own personal history. And yes, that is <a href=\"http:\/\/buffy.wikia.com\/wiki\/Darla\">Julie Benz<\/a> as the hapless receptionist in the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>One of the other movies we watched that week was <i>Sophie&#8217;s Choice<\/i>. I don&#8217;t remember why. Does seem kinda weird in retrospect. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>DeeAnn moved to the Bay Area in 1998. We moved in together in 2000 and <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/wedding\/\">got married in 2005<\/a>. This winter, we&#8217;ll have been together for eighteen years. I look forward to growing old with her&mdash;like, at least as old as that <i>Titanic<\/i> lady&mdash;with more movies, more anniversaries, and more happy memories every year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And speaking of strong female characters&#8230; These two films figured prominently in the week when I met the woman who is now my wife: Titanic (1997)andAs Good As It Gets (1997) I&#8217;ll explain after the trailers. https:\/\/youtu.be\/CHekzSiZjrY https:\/\/youtu.be\/rrRl2QQKkI8 In December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[46,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-42movies21days","category-movies","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}