- Anna Maria Junus
Reading Rush: Tuesdays With Morrie
The 7th Challenge was to read a book and watch the movie. I picked Tuesday's With Morrie.
Jack Lemmon plays Morrie Schultz, Hank Azaria is Mitch Albom and Wendy Moniz is Mitch's girlfriend Janine.
The movie makes some changes. The book which is the true story, has Mitch and Janine already married. In the movie they create a story line where Mitch is having trouble committing to marriage while Janine has had enough of being the perpetual girlfriend and wants a real commitment. To be fair, in the book it took those two seven years to get married. Clearly this story line is to up the ante of Mitch's inability to slow down and make time for the real stuff. It's to add some drama. Janine plays a much bigger character in the movie than in the book. The other difference was that in the book Mitch occasionally
goes back in time to his college days and the time he spent with Morrie. Nothing like this happens in the book.
Other than that, the spirit is kept intact. The life lessons are there, and the movie sticks pretty closely to the book. There's a scene in the movie where Janine and Morrie meet for the first time. Mitch is excited about this and continually jumps in and speaks for each one of them. It's very cringy and arrogant and you want to slap him. Eventually Morrie tells him to leave and go make phone calls so he can talk to Janine. It's a movie worth seeing and I'll post the link although I don't know how long that will last.
Some Morrieisms "People see me as a bridge. I'm not alive as I used to be, but I'm not dead...I'm on the last great journey here - and people want me to tell them what to pack."
"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?" "Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."
"Love wins. Love always wins."
"Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than ever before."
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in."
"Love is the only rational act."
"When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
"What's wrong with being number two?"
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
"Love each other or perish."
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Today's Canadian Woman is...
Arlene Dickenson (1952 - )
Dickenson is a successful business woman, tv personality, a mother, and a humanitarian who is the spokeswoman for the Breakfast Clubs of Canada. She's managed to juggle love others with business success.
