Jette wrote a great entry about sex scenes in movies, so of course I have to throw in my two cents.

The first thing that popped into my mind was Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore on the couch in The End of the Affair, which is just astounding, but I quite agree with Jette when she says that the scenes without sex, just kissing or yearning, are far more powerful than humping.

So there's the Keith Carradine and Lesley Ann Warren kissing in the parking lot in Choose Me, with Teddy Pendergrass singing "Choose me, baby," and Renee Zellweger and Vince D'Onofrio kissing in The Whole Wide World with the camera flying joyfully around them, and the scene in the kitchen in Hannibal when Anthony Hopkins snaps lightly at Julianne's face when she's tied to the refrigerator with her own hair, and the scene in Gladiator with Russell and Connie Nielsen when he's chained to the wall, and the sex scene between Gabriel Byrne and Debra Winger in A Dangerous Woman, even though that's kind of a rape scene, since she's retarded.

There's the scene in The English Patient where Ralph and Kristen Scott Thomas are separated by a grating, and he says that he could still taste her, "I'm trying to write with your taste in my mouth," there's Nic Cage in Face/Off saying "I could eat a peach for hours..." and George and Jennifer in the trunk in Out of Sight, not to mention George and Jennifer in the bar in Out of Sight and George and Jennifer in the bathtub in Out of Sight and...okay, pretty much most Out of Sight.

There's George Sanders and Gene Tierney in the carriage in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Harrison Ford and Karen Allen in the hold of the ship in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Al Pacino breaking Penelope Ann Miller's door down in Carlito's Way, Al and Ellen Barkin up against the wall in Sea of Love, Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive, Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo on the staircase in The Thomas Crown Affair, Russell and Jennifer Connelly looking at the stars in A Beautiful Mind, and David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly dancing in Labyrinth.

How could I not mention Clive Owen and Kelly MacDonald kissing in Gosford Park, Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger kissing on the street in Bridget Jones' Diary, Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds kissing in the street, surrounded by the circus parade in Persuasion, Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault in my beloved Les Enfants du Paradis, "Love is so easy," and basically any scene between Colin and Jennifer Ehle in Pride and Prejudice.

What does it matter that I don't get to have sex? When I get to watch these movies that fill my head, who needs the real thing. And Secretary is opening soon!

Today's horoscope:
You dream about a vocational opportunity, but fear risking what you have. Protect your gains, but be open to a chance to change.

One year ago today:
"When you're laughing through a root canal, you know that it's going well!"

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