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Eye Contact

Romantic movies really should have ve big “looks” between the two lovers a er the meet-cute for the ending to be believable.

is late summer is a big moment in the movie of your life. Where can you go to get the looks from the state of Maine, the eye contact? Even though this is our Fall Guide, it’s still o cially summer until September 22.

One of my rst big looks this season was from a harbor seal playing near some rocks about 1,000 yards from shore. ey all ducked underwater as we approached in our 13-foot Boston Whaler, but then, one by one, they surfaced and stared. e rst one was a real Romeo.

Seals are very private individuals, you see. ey guard the sunless depths. So when they do condescend to give you the look, they’re going to make it count. at’s right, keep the camera on me. You’ve enjoyed your fun, and you’re going to be leaving now. Back away slowly.Turn your boat around, and don’t tell anyone you were here. It was seals who invented the Jedi mind trick.

What part of this summer will stay with you? It isn’t only wildlife that catches your eye. At the top of Mt. Katahdin or Mt. Agamenticus, forever gives you the eye. Or is it the ear? On top of Mt. Battie, Edna St. Vincent Millay closed her eyes to better hear the “ticking of Eternity.”

Where did I learn the trick of needing ve big looks for a romance to really take hold? e Big Lebowski taught it to me— the hard way. I wish it weren’t true. e inspiration for Je Bridges’s character in the movie is a screenplay guru. At the time, my screenplay Out of the Blue only had three big looks in it, so the Dude didn’t abide.

Now my screenplay has seven hundred big looks. It’s available to read on request. Everything I love, everything that is forever, keeps a steady gaze. Here’s looking at you, Maine. e best look for me ever? e seals won’t tell you. Forty-three years ago, my future wife Nancy turned and looked at me across the Breezy Point O cer’s Club in Norfolk, Virginia. ere was no one else in the entire room. Her eyes were the color of the Blue Grotto in Capri. My heart thumped. Everything else disappeared.

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