Blessed is the Eye of the Beholder

Imagine this scene: You are in a supermarket. You already have all you want in the shopping cart currently being pushed by you. Yet, you are prowling among the racks, racking your memory for that one item that you know you have forgotten, until your brain begins to wrack with the overload. Then you spot that beauteous creature in the next aisle. She is unaware that just her being there is causing a near cardiac arrest in you. She is unaware that as she stands there, examining the expiry date on a pack of cornflakes, absentmindedly brushing a strand of her silky hair behind her ear, she is turning heads and breaking hearts and marriages. You decide to go up to her and tell her that exquisite goddesses like her should come with a statutory warning - Staring may be injurious to health. But just as you are about to go "Ahem!" from behind her, there comes a Goliath, with bulging forearms that remind you very much of that Boa Constrictor you saw the other day on Nat Geo, who puts his aforementioned arms around her affectionately (rather too much affectionately, you think, the show-off!) and whispers something into her ear, to which she responds by giggling (haha! Big joke, you think) and then, they walk right past you hand-in-hand. This scene, or something very similar, might have happened to you sometime or the other. You might feel down in the doldrums for sometime. You might console yourself by telling yourself she wouldn't be any better looking than you twenty years down the line. After all, beauty is only skin deep, isn't it? Nah, it isn't. Who're you kidding. You know it as well as anybody -real beauty comes from within. It's not what you are but who you are that matters. Here's a salute to 3 beautiful ladies who've managed to set hearts racing and stop time at the same time: 1) Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - She's at the windowsill singing "Moon River". She finishes and spots George Peppard looking down from his window and smiles and says "Hi!". 2) Meg Ryan in "You've Got Mail" - She's ill and in bed. Tom Hanks comes over for a visit. Joe Fox (Tom Hanks): What happened with that guy at the cafe? Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan): Nothing. Joe Fox: But you're crazy about him. Kathleen Kelly: Yes, I am. Joe Fox: Well, why don't you run off with him? What are you waiting for? Kathleen Kelly: I don't actually know him. (Cringes. And oh boy! What a cringe!) Joe Fox: Really? Kathleen Kelly: I only know him through the, uh... you're not going to believe this... Joe Fox: Oh, let me guess. Through the Internet? Kathleen Kelly: Yes. Joe Fox: Hmm. You've... got mail? Kathleen Kelly: Yes! (Pleasantly surprised) 3) Kate Hudson in "Almost Famous" - Patrick Fugit, playing the reporter kid is trying hard to flirt with her. Penny Lane (Kate Hudson): How old are you? William Miller (Patrick Fugit): Eighteen. Penny Lane: Me too! How old are we really? William Miller: Seventeen. Penny Lane: Me too! William Miller: Actually, I'm sixteen. Penny Lane: Me too. Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different. William Miller: (Admitting defeat) I'm fifteen. And a special mention for Alicia Silverstone, for just being so beautiful and for featuring in almost all my fantasies throughout high school. (With apologies to Mike Myers) "We salute you, Alicia! Sshhhwiiiinnnggg!!"