SOMEWHERE IN TIME
Somewhere in Time is a 1980 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer. Reeve plays Richard Collier, a playwright who becomes obsessed with a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis, he wishes himself back in time to the year 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna (portrayed by Seymour), but comes into conflict with Elise’s manager, William Fawcett Robinson (portrayed by Plummer), who fears that romance will derail her career and resolves to stop him. The film is known for its musical score composed by John Barry. The 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini also appears several times.(More from Wikipedia)
We have been bombarded with important anniversaries this year. Though I purposely did not research all of these anniversaries and undoubtedly missed plenty of them for this post (I have been adding them as I think about new ones, however), I know about several others: A long-time favorite food that I still enjoy, Sun Maid Raisins was started in 1912; I lived for nearly 7 years in Jackson County, MS, which was founded in 1812; and the first book of fairy tales and folk stories that were assembled by the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. The “unsinkable” ship Titanic went down in 1912. The first Whitman’s Sampler – the standard by which all mixed chocolate boxes should be judged IMHO (though not since their acquisition by Russell Stover in 1993 – and yes, I do think that Godiva is over-rated) – came out in 1912. The time-traveling sequences in one of my favorite romance movies, Somewhere in Time (starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) were set in 1912. As I noted in the UARB post on Trillion, one of the best known albums by Rush is called 2112; this album placed second on a readers’ poll by Rolling Stone on “Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time”. My alma mater, North Carolina State University celebrated its 125th anniversary this year.
(Year 3 Review)
