Thief of Hearts and Fact Checking

Back in the eighties there were a slew of what I call slick movies: movies that came to the theatre wrapped in pretty and handsome packaging with a synchronized soundtrack to match. Some of my favorites were Flashdance, Cat People and 9 1/2 Weeks.
Was strolling through some movies to watch and came across a little classic called "Thief of Heart." For me, this movie gained repeat, late-night cable viewing for more than one reason.

It' the story of a thief who steals a diary. The diary belongs to a woman who is unfulfilled in her marriage so she writes in her diary of her dream man and the fantasies she has about him. Through reading the diary, the thief falls in love with her and deceivingly becomes the man of her dreams and sets out to meet her.

Thief of Hearts stars one of my favorite actors, Steven Bauer. Steven is Cuban born and you will probably remember him from Scarface as Manny, Al Pacino's right hand man in Scarface. Steven is great actor and he isn't bad on the eyes either. The neglected wife is played by Barbara Williams who is a dead ringer for Barbra Streisand.

At one point in the movie, Barbara's character, after falling in love with him, starts wanting to know more about this man. But since he is a fabrication, Steven's character is unable to tell her the real story about his life and how he is just a bad boy thief from the wrong side of the tracks.

This premise of the movie got me thinking about how we now check on facts when faced with wanting to find out information about people that are in our lives. Back in the 1980s, when someone wants to find out information about a person they would either have to follow them, hire a detective or make a bunch of phone calls after looking through the white pages (remember them?). But in today's "you can find whatever you are searching for on the internet" society, fact-checking and information seeking has changed. If this movie was made today, that guy probably wouldn't have got that far. She could have googled him and found out that he was lying to her about who he was.










In the world we live in today, all she would have had to do was friend him on Facebook and she would have all the info she needed. And that info would have been at her fingertips as she accessed this info from her smart-phone or Ipad.




Me and a friend of mine, when we get together to watch movies, always pick movies apart for their inaccuracies... or if the movie takes place in a certain era but the facts of that era are wrong, we tear that movie apart.
Or in the case of this movie, we would say , Oh they would do it this way now.

So, fact-checking has changed or I just wanted to post some pics of Steven Bauer.













Steven can also be seen in the Eurythmic's video for "Would I Lie To You?"