REVIEW: The Vow

Directed by Michael Sucsy

1 hour, 44 minutes

From Screen Gems and Spyglass

Starring

Rachel McAdams

Channing Tatum

Jessica Lange

Sam Neill

Wendy Crewson

Scott Speedman

Four That Scared Me

I was on a tall barstool some months back enjoying drinks and chatting with a good buddy of mine when a former coworker came up from behind me and put his hand on my back without saying anything.  I practically flew up to the ceiling. I made a noise that one might hear deep in the jungle when animals alert others that an enemy is nearby.  I knocked over a bowl of shelled peanuts.  After we helloed and how-are-youed, the friend I had come with said, "You were really scared.  I don't think I've ever seen you scared before.  Does that happen often?"  I guess it doesn't.  Of course I was often scared as a child, but very rarely as an adult.  My friend continued, "Just at the movies?"

Betty at the Bookstore

I am not given to going gaga over meeting movie stars.  It is their work on the screen or stage and books written about them or by them that floats my boat.  Living for years on the other side of Sunset in L.A. while a teen, I frequently saw them and often in the oddest places.  I stood behind Joan Crawford once at a liquor store.  Julie Andrews passed me on the stairs exiting a Beverly Hills department store.  I stood next to Clint Walker in several lines at Disneyland.  On various jobs I have run into Debbie Reynolds, Glenn Ford, Burt Lancaster, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Sally Field, Jacqueline Bisset, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Swayze, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Douglas and scores more.