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 100 Year Tears

 Nothing brings people together like sad times.

Sharing the pain, shouldering the load----it makes us all feel a little more human, our lives a bit more real.

Entertainment supplies these moments----real and imagined----in abundance. The loss of a beloved star. A scene that rends the heart. These become the ties that bind in an increasingly splintered world.

So, whether you’re in need of a good cry or just a little quiet reflection, you’ll find it here. We’ve got a dozen poignant moments guaranteed to touch your soul and moisten your eyes.

Go ahead. Let it out. It’ll do you good.

No.5 Sophie’s Choice (1982)

The moment: Mery1 Streep’s Sophie has been imprisoned by the Nazis and is being transferred by train to Auschwitz, along with her two children. A passing Nazi officer leers at her, and she grabs this opportunity to explain that her arrest is a mistake, that she is a Christian, that she should be released. The officer, in an act of breathless ruthlessness, lets her decide which of her children should die: her firstborn son or her baby girl. Sophie is at first uncomprehending, then gets mad: “I can’t choose. I can’t choose. I can’t choose.” As the officer starts to make away with both of her children, she screams out her “choice”: the little girl. With Sophie watching, insane with grief, the guard picks up the girl----who’s screaming, “Mama! Mama! ”----and takes her away to the crematorium.

The Aftermath: Steep’s performance takes the century’s most horrific event, the Holocaust, to a painful new place: It’s not just a tragedy; it’s a mother’s worst nightmare. Alan J. Pakula’s film has been criticized for shifting the focus from the immensity of the Holocaust by detailing the suffering of one beautiful and very Aryan woman. But Sophie’s Choice provides a distilled portrait of survivor’s guilt-regardless of race or religion. The audience honors Sophie’s search for life after the ordeal and mourns her defeat.

The last word: Emily Dickinson, that doyenne of the poetry of life and loss, figures prominently in the film, and provides a fitting tribute to the final resting place of Sophie and her lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline):

Ample make this Bed

Make this Bed with Awe

In it wait till Judgment break

Excellent and Fair

No.4 Elvis Presley (1997)

The moment: It’s August 16, 1997, in the middle of a hot Memphis night. Insomniac Elvis can’t sleep. Bloated like Vegas and pilled up like a pharmaceutical pi? Ata, the King picks up a book from his night table (the Scientific Search for the Face of Jesus) and tells girlfriend Ginger Alden he’ll be in the toilet. When she wakes a few hours later, Elvis still hasn’t returned. Alden looks into the bathroom and discovers Elvis, Unconscious on the floor, pants at his ankles, mouth open, and shag carpet particles down his throat.

The Aftermath: One of the century’s most important cultural figures suffers a decidedly ignominious death----and it only fuels the public’s fascination. His funeral becomes an all-out media circus. His Graceland estate becomes a mecca for fans of all ages and nationalities----and a moneymaking empire in its own right. AS of 1999, Elvis remains the most certified artist in the history of recorded music: 80 gold, 43 platinum and 19 Multi-platinum albums. The King is gone, but he’s not forgotten.

The last word: “Not Sinatra, not Jagger, not the Beatles, nobody you can come up with ever elicited such hysteria among so many. And this, after a decade and a half of making crappy records.” ----Rock critic Lester Bangs

No.3 Bambi (1942)

The Moment: “ Faster, Bambi, faster! Don’t look back! Keep running!” shouts Bambi’s mother, voicing the quintessential battle cry for all heroic mothers. A shot rings out. Bambi continues on, frightened and alone in the falling snow. The mighty stag appears, prince of the forest. “Your mother can’t be with you anymore,” he says in that deep, sexy voice that probably really twiddled the fluffy tail of Bambi’s mother. Bambi lowers his head briefly, looks up with those eyes that birthed generations of vegetarians and goes off into the forest with his father. (Who, by the way, could have been around more often before this part of the film, to help raise Bambi, do a little straightening up around the thicket----and maybe draw the fire from Bambi’s mother.)

The Aftermath: Disney’s animated children’s classic holds the unique distinction of introducing generations to the concept of death. And not just any death but the loss of a mother. Sadistic Uncle Walt? Or just a forest version of Freud’s family romance? Either way, Bambi himself grows up to be a fine young stag. A prince-in training, he marries Fillene (who, frankly, has been throwing herself at him ever since they were fawns.) and saves her from vicious dogs and a huge fire started by Man. They even have twins.

The Last Word: “In the memories of the great heartbreaking moments in the movies, the death of Bambi’s mother ranks right up there with the chaining of Dumbo’s mother and the moment when E.T. seems certainly6 dead.”----Roger Ebert.

No.2 Princess Diana(1997)

The Moment: Free at last from a royal pain, a once-troubled princess appears to be on the way to happiness with a new man and a new life. But on August, 31, 1997, following a romantic dinner at the Ritz in Paris, Diana and Saudi tycoon Dodi al Fayed decide to slip out the hotel’s back door and into the safety of an idling Mercedes. The paparazzi are waiting, and the chase is on. Unfortunately, Dodi’s driver has been drinking, and as the hunted and the hunters drive into a Parisian tunnel, he wraps their big, black sedan around a pole. Only the bodyguard lives. (he was the only one wearing a seatbelt.) Dodi and the driver are killed instantly. Diana passes minutes later, her brilliant flame extinguished----like a candle in the wind----amid the glare of flashbulbs and flashing lights.

The Aftermath: The fairy tale ends all wrong, and the world loses a storybook heroine. Diana brought a sense of children around the globe. As the caring face of Britian’s royal family, she’d been a voice for the poor and the ignored. In the days and weeks following her death, flowers were scarce in London. Monies rose in her honor----for AIDS, children, and the aged----surpassed all expectations. An international landmine treaty she had proposed was signed. And in death, ironically, Diana approaches the godliness to which royalty aspires.

The Last Word: “She wanted the royal family to be human. There was no kindness there, and she was a kind person.”----Longtime friend Lady Elsa Bowker

No.1 John Lennon (1980)

The Moment: “I’m your biggest fan,” Mark David Chapman tells John Lennon, capturing his attention just before he steals his life. Lennon and wife Yoko Ono has just emerged from their house at the posh Dakota apartment building, literally and metaphorically: They had reentered reentered public life with their recent album Double Fantasy (which included the hit “Just Like Starting Over”) and were, at that moment on December8, 1980, on their way to the studio. Then the killer crossed their path. “Tell me it’s not true,” Yoko cries, as John lay mortally wounded in her arms, surrounded by a crowd of stunned onlookers.

The Aftermath: Unlike the assassinations before Lennon’s ----the politically motivated murders of the Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King ----this one was shocking for its lack of reason. Save for some unpopular, anti-Vietnam stands (which earned him his own secret FBI dossier), Lennon may and truly committed to the concepts of peace and love, Lennon lives on in this music, his work and his fans. Chapman, by the way, was sentenced to the mental ward at Riker’s Island, where he shares classes in basket weaving with David “son of Sam” Berkowitz

The Last Word: “ I think what has happened will in years to come make people realize that John was an international statesman.”----Paul McCartney

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