Now that the mercury has complied with the summer calendar, the warmer weather has the lactose-friendly amongst us thinking of ice cream. How can you resist when you hear the music from the ice cream truck playing within a stone's throw of the Genesee Dog Park?
Sometimes you'll hear "I Had a Little Chicken" or Christmas carols. And sometimes you'll hear the theme from the movie Love Story. Seriously.
Chances are, your mother or grandmother (or both) cried their eyes out to the 1970 movie based on the novel by the late Erich Segal. Or maybe you saw the chick flick in the theater, or on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
In Love Story, Ryan O'Neal plays a preppie law student Oliver Barrett IV, who falls hard for Ali McGraw's working-class teacher Jenny Cavelleri. Despite the glaring socioeconomic differences, Oliver and Jenny marry and suffer the indignities of a struggling married couple when Oliver's father disinherits him. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Oliver lands a plum job at a New York City firm. All seems well until... well, I don't want to spoil what should be obvious. Composer Francis Lai won two Academy Awards for the memorable score and theme song, the latter of which blares while a vender sells Dora the Explorer and Sponge Bob bars in the Lovely Rainier Valley. Listen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rvz8KnyN0U&feature=related
Love Story doesn't float my boat. If I were to choose a movie theme from a tearjerker, I'd opt for:
- "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hq0V98f02Q
- "A Time For Us", the theme from Romeo and Juliet (1968) by composer Niño Rota: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcyRO_ZFa9I
- The theme from 1966's A Man and a Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) by the venerable Francis Lai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi58z5eXEco&feature=related
Anyone hungry for a Choco Taco?
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