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We went through many tissues watching the Holocaust movie
Le Rafle
, about the sickening roundup of French Jews in Paris in 1942. When I told her about our list of treasured memories, she asked, “What about
Dresden
?
”
referring to the German TV production about the February 1945 firebombing of that city. We found the drama of love and survival within the inferno quite enthralling and entertaining. Granted,
Le Rafle
and
Dresden
don’t sound like traditional “date movies,” but they worked for us. Setting aside our Texas-Northeast political squabbles, we’re in sync on the major life issues. And when you’re in your fifties, that’s MECE enough for me.

Van Wallach
is a writer in Connecticut. A native of Mission, Texas, he holds an economics degree from Princeton University. His work as a journalist has appeared in
Advertising Age, the New York Post, The Journal of Commerce, Newsday, Video Store, The Hollywood Reporter,
and the
Forward.
Van has been a regular contributor to the
Princeton Alumni Weekly
since 1993. He contributed a chapter on home-video economics to the second edition of
The Movie Business Book.
A language buff, Van has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew, although he can’t speak any of them. His travels have included Australia, New Zealand, the USSR, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Brazil, Israel and the usual parts of Europe.

You can find Van online at:

wallach.coffeetownpress.com