Two sad deaths.

I don't think people cry in the movies like they used to. Not because people are colder these days, but because films are less sentimental and thus less able to move an audience to tears. And even if you do have a few sobbers in the audience, you'll never get everyone to cry.  Never!  I can only remember it happening once in my life. It was 1959, and a I was 17. The film was the remake of Imitation of Life, a classy soaper by Fannie Hurst starring Lana Turner. In this film, much to her mother's heartbreak, Susan Kohner, an African American, was obsessed with passing for white.So much so that she rejected her loving and sacrificing mother played by Juanita Moore. In the film the mother dies and her ashamed and distraught daughter throws herself onto the casket. A scene so emotional, one could feel the entire audience becoming choked up with tears. A amazing experience I've never seen repeated. Anyway the talented, and much-admired actress who played the mother was Juanita Moore, who died this week at the age of 99. Now that's a reason for tears.