Although my drinking buddies may find it pathetic, I nonetheless admit to having a taste for chick flicks. But because certain attendees of my health club, especially the ruffians who hang around the bench press machine, will suspect me of having certain, uh, “dark latencies,” let me hasten to add that chick flicks are not high on my entertainment agenda, nor do I seek them out. However, if I do happen to run across a well-made chick flick like, say, The Accidental Tourist, I’m not afraid of screening it. Indeed, I might even shed a tear or two at the exact moment in a film when a chick would. That I would confess to such a girly predilection shows how secure I am in my manliness. Perhaps the quintessential chick flick is Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and not only because Nora Ephron, a chick, wrote and directed, but because it is in part about another chick flick: An Affair to Remember, Leo McCarey’s 1957 remake of his 1939 Love Affair. So Sleepless could...(Read Full Article)