C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for April 22, 2009

I’ve got to say, I’m on Mona’s side on this one!

Sisyphos Same here.

I call myself a man after a woman.

Uh, mind the look on Mona’s face, bub.

With all due respect to Rob Reiner, Annie Hall and Manhattan are the greatest romantic comedies of the modern era. (You can see the influence of Woody Allen on When Harry Met Sally.) Going back further, you get such brilliant gems as It Happened One Night and even Chaplin’s Modern Times. You’ve got to be careful when making such bold statements… :-)

I resent that statement! Why should I know who Harry and Sally are just because I’m a woman? The fact that I do know who they are has nothing to do with what I just said! :-)

…I’ll have what she’s having….

Most often I tend to call myself women. Don’t see the point, much, in calling men. That’s just me, though …

Ouch, ouch, ouch! Mona’s fatal cut hurts even 3000 miles away.

“stangers”? No one proof reads any more, do they? Is the first sentence a question or a statement? It’s phrased as one and punctuated as the other.

I’m a man who LOVES RomComs, but “When Harry Met Sally” had me grinding my teeth all the way through it. Horrible, horrible movie.

PS: Read the question mark in Lucas’s first line as inflection, rather than grammar. In any medium that is trying to reproduce how people actually speak, proper punctuation is less than vital.

Ms. Babcock, thank you for putting Mona back onto familiar footing with Lucas. You can string this plot out for years, just like in When Harry Met Sally. Back to enemies again. As to the movie itself, I bought the soundtrack back when CD’s where the only way to get the music, didn’t like the movies enough, though.

I must agree with fritzoid, there are much better modern RCs, Love Actually and Shakespeare in Love come immediately to mind.

This one made me chuckle!

Boy, Lucas is a real masochist.

Shakespeare In Love is the finest movie of the last 20 years.