(AKA AMBIGUITY RULES) The 1942 Warner Brothers movie Casablanca has so many iconic lines of dialogue that we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to studying them. “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.” We could start there. We could round up the usual suspects […]
(aka clever laughs) Romancing The Stone may be over thirty years old but it’s still my favourite romantic adventure romp–mainly because of the loving way it treats its main character. It takes about thirty seconds of screen time to hook me into Joan Wilder’s romance-writing world. The tears at the end of a story, the […]
aka Playful Heartbreak I’m a big Richard Curtis fan. Be it his television work or his feature films, the man knows where my emotional jugular is and exactly how to manipulate it. As a romance writer, I know practically zip about acting, cinematography, set design or scripts–all those things and more that come together to […]
