I'm old. Officially. I have to be.

I'm stalking through Wal-Mart, doing my thang, cruising past the 'Home Entertainment Department', past the "$5.50 bin" of DVD's... It catches my eye. I pull over and yank it out. "Terms of Endearment". How could that be in the bargain bin with "Showgirls"? Terms of Endearment is a classic! The bargain bin is for movies like "Curse of the Spider People" or other B, C and D movies. You cannot tell me Terms of Endearment is one of those movies...

Besides it being the 'ultimate chick flick'- Emma gets cancer, we all cry-Shirley MacLaine gives a stellar performance as Aurora. How could you not love her when one of her suitors asks her why she doesn't face the fact that she has 'certain biological needs' just like every other woman and she gives him a look that could melt steel and says "Because I don't." And you believe her.... Oh! And Jack Nicholson-is he not just so Jack Nicholson in this movie? "We're going to need a lot of drinks-to kill the enormous bug in your ass." Debra Winger is just totally real and so is Jeff Daniels as 'the man who is failing Emma'.

I bought it. I watched it. I watched it again. There are some movies where everything just comes together-the script, the lighting and the scenery and the cast and the direction and all the little nuances that go into making a film come together and you get something that you can study over and over and over and it is still fresh and vibrant every single time. That is this movie for me.

...in the bargain bin...
...this country's going to hell in a handbasket....