Secret Crush

I have always had a secret crush on Keanu Reeves. My love affair with him began before he appeared in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I mean way back in that little known movie Youngblood with Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe. That long ago. SShhhhh. Don't tell. And don't laugh. People magazine named him one of the 50 most beautiful People of 1995. To me he always was and still is. That same year Empire magazine named him one of the sexiest film stars of all time. Yes, he is!! I have willingly forgiven him all of his weird idiosyncracies. Even when he was drunk and/or stoned and hanging out with homeless people sleeping on the streets. Even. Then. Something about him pulls on my heart strings. I imagine had I lost not only my baby (Eva Archer Syme Reeves, born stillborn a few weeks before delivery date) and then my fiance, Jennifer Syme, both in tragic situations I might have spiraled down to the deepest pits of depression and gone insane or had a major nervous breakdown myself. Suffice it to say, I understand and have loads of empathy and sympathy for him. I am willing to forgive him many things. So yesterday I went to see The Lake House. No spoilers here. If you like Jane Austin and Persuasion. If you are a hopeless romantic. If you can believe in the magic and not look for the strings and zippers. You should go see this movie. Keanu has gained a little weight which I think looks good on him. He is not cut like him the Matrix movies. He looks his age, which I think is a good thing. I want to see the men I like age with me. (I think that is why so many Hollywood types do not appeal to me. They don't let themselves age and they screw it up trying to be teenagers or 20-somethings. Bah.) On the other hand, Sandra. Sandra, Sandra, Sandra. Too much makeup. Way too much makeup. She is aging and her face really shows it. Despite the fact that she and Keanu are the same age (both 2 years older than I am) she looks old. Almost too old to play this part. They needed to wipe off some of her makeup. She didn't look natural in any way. Far over done. And what the heck is it about her nose that bothers me? Go see the movie. It is a fairly good movie if you can believe in the space-time continuum, time warp romance. It is not a great movie. It is not a blockbuster. The outcome was somewhat predictable in the first 10 or 15 minutes of the movie but that was okay. The movie isn't about the ending but the journey that gets you there. I took Steven with me. He was very quiet when awake, sitting up and starring at the screen. I sat about 3/4 back, no one sat behind us. I let him nurse and nap and got lost in the movie. I enjoyed it. I would watch it again. I might even be willing to buy the DVD when it comes out. Because I am a Keanu Reeves fan. It fed the romantic in me. I am glad I saw it. I don't think the price of the matinee ticket was wasted. With that I'll leave you with a Keanu quote ... "It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth." ... what's not to like?