Ep. #94 - King of the CORN! Somewhere in Time v. Titanic

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This week on Fabulous Film & Friends it’s time to embrace our inner sap as we compare two seminal historically-themed weepie romances that have managed to endure, despite being laden with copious amounts of kettle corn, enough to fill two silos full really: 1980’s Somewhere in Time, written by Richard Matheson directed by  Jeannot Szwarc starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer against 1997’s Titanic written and directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, David Warner, Francis Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton and Kathy Bates.

I’m your host Gino Caputi and this  week I have a full cast of romantics, the king of Salt Lake City, Burton Brown, my kid sister and James Cameron enthusiast, Roseanne Caputi, Joe Field  most sensitive author and hypnotherapist in Texas, and Mr. Rom-com himself, George Young!

Before we jump into the abyss the synopses: 

Somewhere in Time’s Richard Collier is an coming college playwright who, following a successful and highly touted college production is visited by an elderly woman who hands him an old gold watch and whispers , “Come Back to Me!”  Eight years later, Richard, now a successful playwright in Chicago goes on a bit of an unscheduled vacation to overcome writer’s block, stopping at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan. In the hotel museum, he sees the photo of Elise McKenna an incomparably  beautiful and famous actress from the turn of the 20th Century and he is immediately captivated by her beauty and becomes obsessed with learning all about her. Upon discovering that Elise was the woman who handed him the gold watch, he wills himself back in time to the year 1914 to meet her through a form of hypnosis. When they meet: FIREWORKS! But can their love stand the test of time? 

Titanic recounts the heartrending love affair of poor artist Jack Dawson and high society dame Rose Dewitt Buakater who met and fell in love on the doomed ocean liner four days before it hit an iceberg and sunk on that fateful night in 1912.  But can their love survive the tragedy? 

Which film reigns as King of the Corn?

Find out! 

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