The Palm Beach Post
February 14, 2006
The most awesome movie kisses of all time
By Leslie Gray Streeter, The Palm Beach Post
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- It's still one of those sweet, fundamental things that apply, just like Sam sang to Rick and Ilsa -- a kiss is still a kiss. Especially if it's the kind of world-stopping kiss that makes you lightheaded, passing out like an old church lady at a gospel revival and breathlessly fumbling for your fast-acting inhaler.
I'm actually hoping to draft legislation requiring all kisses to be of that caliber, or the weak-lipped fake-kiss perpetrator gets sent to the pokey to practice on melons.
Or maybe the kiss-deficient can just study the following screen clinches, lip-locks, smoochfests and passionate games of full-court tonsil hockey. It wasn't easy whittling the list down to 10 -- movie people sure like kissing -- but these are more or less a cross- section of the best kinds of lip contact -- the hot, the sweet, the swooningly romantic and the "Umm .?.?. kids, go play in the other room 'til this scene is over, 'K?"
So take a read. And then, maybe, practice a little. 'Cause some of ya'll need it come Valentine's Day.
So, in no particular order....
1. First Sgt. Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) and Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr), "From Here to Eternity" (1953)
2. Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) and Mike Connor (Jimmy Stewart), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
3. Katharine Clifton (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Count Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes)," The English Patient" (1996)
4. Claire (Molly Ringwald) and John Bender (Judd Nelson), "The Breakfast Club" (1985)
5. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)
6. Paula Pokrifi (Debra Winger) and Zach Mayo (Richard Gere), "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982)
7. Liesl (Charmian Carr) and Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte), "The Sound of Music" (1965)
8. Rachel (Whitney Houston) and Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner), "The Bodyguard" (1992)
9. Cora Munro (Madeline Stowe) and Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992)
10. Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) and Sam Coulson (Michael Vartan), "Never Been Kissed" (1999): You know it's gonna happen -- shy little Josie has waited 20-something years to get smooched, and this whole sweet and silly movie has come down to this -- she's waiting on the pitcher's mound for Sam, the hot cute dude she's in love with, to come on down and lay one on her, in front of God, country and a zillion TV cameras. But wait! There he is, running down the steps, onto the field and sweeping Josie up in this passionate knee-buckling kiss. "Sorry I'm late. It took forever for me to get here," he says. Us, too, man. But it was worth it.
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