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The primary film/DVD critic for the website REEL.COM (http://www.reel.com/) since 2003, Timothy Knight studied film history and theory at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, where he received his master's degree in Critical Studies in 1994. Based in Los Angeles, Knight is a versatile writer/editor, tackling everything from cinema to sports to humor.

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Of all the grand visions conjured by the movies, few captivate us like that moment when the lovers on the big screen finally come together in a passionate kiss—one that pulls at our heartstrings and burns its way into our memories. In these larger-than-life images of romantic abandon, all the cinematic elements align, creating a magical moment full of promise, delicious anticipation, and heartfelt bliss.

A truly great movie kiss lingers with us long after the screen fades to black. There is the one that helped us nurse a broken heart. The one that set our pulses racing. And the kiss that inspired us to follow our dreams. Who can forget the way Humphrey Bogart sacrificed his own happiness for his true love Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca? The romantic fireworks generated by Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind? Or the swoon-worthy first kiss of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic?

Great Kisses compiles fifty beloved movie kisses—both classic and contemporary—with the famous lines that accompany them, and is a perfect keepsake for movie buffs and hopeless romantics alike. For in the movies and in Great Kisses, true love conquers all....

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Great Kisses

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Chapter One

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Not content with stealing from the rich to give to the poor, Saxon outlaw Sir Robin of Locksley has taken an even more precious and rate prize from the fair Maid Marian: her heart. Inexorably drawn to the swashbuckling folk hero with the jaunty smile and playful wit, the ravishing ward of King Richard the Lion Hearted nevertheless plays it cool when Robin scales a castle wall to visit her castle chamber, late one night under a silvery moon.

Robin:
"Very well, then. I'll go. This is rather unfriendly of you, exposing me to my enemies like this." (He nearly slips and falls as she stifles a scream.) "Now let me see. There's a fat old captain of the guard down there with bow legs. I drop on him, that'll bend them outwards. Ah, there's an archer. No, he's too thin. I might miss him altogether."

Marian:
"Robin—.?

Robin:
"The very thing! Five men at arms, talking in a group. They'll break the fall beautifully. Goodbye, my lady."

Marian:
"Robin!"

Robin:
"Yes? Then you do love me, don't you? Don't you?"

Marian:
"You know I do."

Robin:
"Well, that's different."
(He comes back into the room, takes her in his arms, and kisses her.)

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