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True dat. It makes me want to jab my eardrums with knitting needles.
That's pretty much true for ANY Celine Dion, IMO.
Once again I stand with the unwashed masses and say I rather like the song. I like what I like.
My main memory of seeing Titanic is of sitting alone in the TV studio at school the next day, editing some footage (I must have had an independent study or something that period), when That Song came on the radio, and I suddenly found myself tearing up copiously. And I was so mad, because I thought it was a terrible song! I felt so manipulated. And very glad that nobody else was there to see me crying.
I don't know why, but now when I get that song in my head, I almost immediately go to Grover ("near....far"), so it makes me laugh.
My main memories of seeing Titanic are:
Kate Winslet is a motherfucking toe-dancing, beer-swilling, orgasm-having, axe-wielding Gilded Age goddess; Leo DiCaprio is a perfectly adequate acolyte to her divinity; Victor Garber breaks my heart; old couple hugging and crying on their tiny bed in steerage break my heart again; Celine Dion is making sounds, but why?
old couple hugging and crying on their tiny bed in steerage break my heart again;
That's not in steerage. That's Isidor and Ida Strauss, in first class. They owned (or partially owned) Macy's. Isidor refused to get into a lifeboat while there were still women and children and younger men on board, and Ida refused to leave the ship without her husband.
And now they're breaking my heart *again* again. Curse you, Hil, and your soul-crushing facts!
There are a few articles about them here [link] . A Yiddish newspaper from NYC is reprinting a bunch of their original reporting about the Titanic. It includes an article about a planned public memorial service for them, but so many people showed up that they had to cancel it because a crowd that big could get dangerous. [link]
I don't know why, but now when I get that song in my head, I almost immediately go to Grover ("near....far"), so it makes me laugh.
ME TOO!