Moonstruck

In 1987, when Cher starred in Moonstruck, the Twin Towers still shone in the light of the big moon.
It's a bit eery to see them as they were, knowing now what we know in their absence, the day the world as we knew it changed.

Travelers didn't go through security at airports in 1987.  They carry bulky suitcases and walk right up to the gates.  Friends and family sit with travelers sometimes, as mine did, when we tearfully parted and euphorically greeted each other on arrival.

I loved this movie when I saw it in 1987, still do all these years later--but I hadn't seen it in the intervening years.  Loretta and her Italian family and friends believed in good luck and bad luck.  They mostly told each other the truth--even if belatedly in one or two cases.  And when the moon hit the sky like a big pizza pie, we all know that spelled amore.

"Do you love him?" Loretta's mother asked her when she fell in love with Ronny, the younger brother of her fiancé.

"I love him awful!" she replied.

When the mother asked the same question earlier, when Loretta announced that she was betrothed to the older brother, Loretta simply said, "No."

"That's good," her mother said.  "It works out better when you don't love them."