Terms of Endearment

"All endings are beginnings,
we just don't know it at the time."
-The Five People
You Meet In Heaven

I heard this song by Al Jolson called 'You Made Me Love You' while watching the movie 'The Five People You Meet In Heaven' a couple of months ago. It touched me.

I have decided to denote the link/video with Patsy Cline singing the tune. It seems to go well with the 'Terms of Endearment' Academy Award win from '25 Years Ago'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZtC-gq4is

YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU Lyrics

You made me love you
I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it
You made me love you
and all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it.
You made me happy sometimes, you made me glad
But there were times, Dear, you made me feel so bad

You made me sigh for, I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I want some love that's true, yes I do, deed I do, you know I do

Give me, give me, give me what I cry for
you know you got the brand of kisses that I'd die for
You know you made me love you


Twenty-five years ago today:

April 9, 1984
Monday

I dressed today in my 'Thrift shop from Arcata' wear. I sensed a few glimpses at the office.
"Why are you all dressed up?" someone asked.
"I'm going to the Academy Awards tonight," I replied. It wasn't a lie. I planned to watch at 6pm on ABC-TV.

I completed three new job transfer forms for the Business Service Center in San Francisco, cancelling the other three that I had less of a chance with acceptance. I was given Q-3 ratings on those former requests and now I had a Q-1.

After my work day I came home to mom's baked BBQ chicken and a salad. It was a yummy dinner treat while watching the Academy Awards.

Sherri telephoned to tell me that my PAPILLON VHS-video tape had arrived in their mailbox. It's one of my all-time favorite flicks. I love it because I read the book by Henri Charriere and new the details. It's a gripping true autobiographical story that was first published in France in 1968.

Henri Charriere gave the title of 'Papillon' for the butterfly tattoo on his chest. It was in Paris 1931 that he was convicted of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape.

PHOTO: Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen
in the 1973 film PAPILLON


After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped...until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charriere's autobiography was published more than twenty years after his final escape.

Shirley MacLaine won the BEST Actress Award for 'Terms of Endearment'. Robert Duvall won the BEST Actor Award for 'Tender Mercies'. Linda Hunt won BEST Supporting Actress for 'The Year of Living Dangerously'. Jack Nicholson won BEST Supporting Actor for "Terms of Endearment'.

Who lost? Michael Caine (Educating Rita), Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben), Tom Courtenay (The Dresser), Albert Finney (The Dresser); Jane Alexander (Testament), Meryl Streep (Silkwood), Julie Walters (Educating Rita), Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment). The losers in the Supporting categories were Cher (Silkwood), Glenn Close (The Big Chill), Amy Irving (Yentl), Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek), Charles Durning (To Be or Not To Be), John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment), Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff) and Rip Torn (Cross Creek).

The Best Picture was 'Terms of Endearment'. It was the movie I saw at Hilltop Mall in Richmond, CA with Suzy Miller and her brother, Michael Miller. I suppose it deserved the Award.

I wonder if Chris Cordellos watched the Academy Awards tonight? He said he would.