summer loving at the movies
summer is indeed upon us. the onset of the sunny season always makes me lazy, melancholic and nostalgic. it makes me long for those innocent days when summer means a two-month break from school, seeing friends and cousins whom you have not seen for a long time because of school, and spending time on the beach, or on the tennis court, or on the mountains. this is the season too that i always equate with watching movies. lots of it. i remember it was the summer of eighty four when i watched on betamax brooke shield's endless love and blue lagoon and since then, she had become one of my most favourite actresses. i loved her looks - a combination of girlishness and womanness (especially in endless love). ah, she's a goddess in the real sense of the word. brooke, i think, is the only sex symbol that did not really bare on the big screen. she had body doubles. of course the oh so gorgeous martin hewitt and james spader in endless love and christopher atkins in blue la...