Joel, I'm Not A Concept

15 - really? - years ago, I told one of my favorite teachers about this movie I had just seen called Heavenly Creatures, and the young woman in it who obliviated everything else on screen. He told me how as a young man, he saw a movie and fell in love with Maggie Smith. Every man has one, he said - a muse, an ideal, a dim hope - and when I saw Kate Winslet for the first time, I knew I had found mine.