This could end up being the most romantic movie of the year.



 Too bad the romance is between 12-year-olds.  Cry into your (root)beer tonight in honor of writer/director/cinema savant Howard Hawks, who, on this day in 1896, was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Indiana.  Hawks  used his family money to get in with Jack Warner (with a loan) but the rest, as they say, Hollywood history.  Hawks directed "guy" stuff, like gangster movies (the first Scarface), war movies (Sargeant York and Only Angels Have Wings), westerns (Red River and Rio Bravo), but he was also a genius in men/women pairings:  Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, To Have and To Have Not, The Big Sleep and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.  Maybe if he were around today, he'd be begging to sign on for Avengers 2.  Or maybe not.

Walter Burns:  There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey...here.
Hildy Johnson:  Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago. 

Hawks and Lauren Bacall.