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Staff Picks – Romantic Movies Ginny Wagner,
Community Standards Supervisor
Oh, Omar! One of the CA staff picks for favorite romantic movie was Dr. Zhivago Titanic – I love the scene where Jack and
starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. Rose are standing on the bow of the ship!
You’ve Got Mail - in the park at the end!
Emily Wallace Tristan ultimately finds he belongs in
Managing Editor, Sun Rays Stormhold and among the stars himself. Barbara Traube, Monitor
Dr. Zhivago is at top of my list! Omar
Rocky I – I must have seen this move four Katie Newnam Sharif...need I say more?
or five times when I was a teen. I loved the Director of Administration and HR
scene where Rocky had Adrian literally Mansfield Park – Jane Austen adapta- Carlton Mathis, LMH Superintendent
cornered, backed up against a wall, before tion – swoon! 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler and
their first kiss. Yo, Adrian! Drew Barrymore
Cynthia Chapman
The Sure Thing (1985) starring a very Member Services Manager Michelle Mason, Fitness Director
young John Cusak – the story of Gib and Pretty Woman, especially at the end when You know I love my Peanuts gang. A Char-
Allison, two freshman college students Edward drives up to Vivian’s apartment lie Brown Valentine is a lesson for all of us.
who despised each other and were forced in the limo.
to take a cross country road trip together. My Best Friend’s Wedding Sheila Diller, Golf Shop Manager
A hilarious, classic love story proving that It Could Happen to You Ghost – My favorite scene is the one with
opposites do indeed attract. Demi Moore at the potter’s wheel with
Dave Iserman, Monitor the ghost of Patrick Swayze and the song
Jan Crutchfield The Notebook got me. Unchained Melody playing in the back-
Lifestyle and Activities Assistant ground. Simply the best romantic song
I LOVED An Officer and a Gentleman . . . Kristen Runde ever! Not a dry eye in the room, for sure!
especially when Richard Gere entered the Communications Specialist
factory in his dress whites and scooped Moonstruck – Modern classic. Make a big Jaime Calder
Debra Winger up in his arms and carried Italian meal and enjoy! Production/Communications Editor
her out. Every girl’s dream, right? Six Days Seven Nights My absolute favorite romantic movie is It
While You Were Sleeping – Excellent cast Happened One Night with Clark Gable
Jim Romine And, of course, Dirty ”Nobody puts Baby and Claudette Colbert. Colbert plays a
Executive Director in a corner” Dancing. spoiled young heiress who runs away
Stardust – The film follows a young man, from her father and gold-digging husband.
Tristan, who passes through “the wall” Carl Zimmerman Gable is a down on his luck reporter hunt-
and leaves his boring village, Wall, and Director of Community Standards ing for the scoop that will restore his ca-
humdrum life to enter a world of magic The Man from Snowy River reer. They embark on an antics-filled road
and fantasy in the kingdom of Storm- trip to return the heiress to her husband
hold. He seeks a “fallen star” to impress Catrin Dubois, LMH Superintendent (though you can guess how the story ends).
a woman but finds the star to be another All the Pretty Horses The whole film feels like falling in love –
woman, named Yvaine. Tristan’s quest is slaphappy, sassy and a little unbelievable
to bring Yvaine to Wall, while she herself Cedric Claiborne, Staff Accountant – but no scene is more charming than the
is pursued by a witch who wants to eat her Someone Like You roadhouse breakfast scene, where Gable
heart and by princes seeking a gem in her Fools Rush In admonishes Colbert’s poor donut dunking
possession that would make them king. One Fine Day skills, scoffing, “Say, where’d you learn to
dunk, in finishing school?”
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Krystal Wilson
Director of Communications
Say Anything with John Cusack and the
iconic scene where he plays In Your Eyes
on a boombox outside her house.
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