SHE LIVES!

Is another ABC's Movie of the Week. it's the made for TV version of "Love Story". The one thing I remember most of this yarn is they used Jim Croche's "Time in a bottle" as the theme song, this pre-dates the MTV music video days where every movie is linked to a pop song.

"She Lives!" stars Desi Arnaz Jr. and 70's super model Season Hubley. Hubley plays the terminally ill Pam Rainey, Arnaz is Andy Reed, her lover, who stood by her all the way from the start to help her sustain her will to live. The young couple ends up shacking up with some voodoo doctor working along with him to doexperiment on her with various organic substances to help her through.

This is suppose to be a tear jerker, the film contains moments like Pam ranting and screaming about dying and giving up, so Reed has to do his Dr. Phil and give her some tough love by slapping her in the face telling her : "You are not going to die. You are not going to die. You are not going to die."

I think the following summer a top 40 single by titled "Rocky" (not the Stallone film) by Austin Roberts, once again touched on the dying teenagers in love theme, with lyrics like "Rocky I've been in love before, don't know if I can do it..." followed by "Rocky I never had a baby before, don't if I can do it"...leading to "Rocky I never had to die before....."

The title of the movie pretty much gives away the ending, but the hokey 70's quality really makes this a good belly laugh, things like the fashion and recalling Hubely on the covers of "Seventeen" magazine and various teen-age ads can make anyone roll their eyes and giggle.