Psychic_girl, I think I may have something similar to your asthenia.  Weekdays I generally stay up until 3, 4 or even 5 pm or later.  Since I work from home and my shift starts at 8:30 am, 3 pm still leaves me with 8 hours sleep.  But on weekends I sleep 14+ hours at least one day, and oftentimes both. 

In my case, it may be age-induced insomnia coupled with the fact my husband is disabled.  I know as long as he's awake I have to be "on alert" - either to help him with things he needs or to keep an eye on him if he has a seizure.  It isn't until he's in bed that I can relax.  Then on weekends I'm generally so tired I sleep for hours - even then he'll wake me if he REALLY needs help, but we try to have things set up so he can fend for himself as much as possible.

psychic girl, go to YouTube and type in All in the Family Judge Edith (that might not be the right spelling, but should work anyway)  That episode has a couple of the funniest crying scenes with a man that you ever did see.

Has anybody seen the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth from 1960?  If I remember right, Pat Boone starred in it, and  It has a couple of pretty good crying scenes.  In one of them, Pat Boone says something real romantic and intimate to his girlfriend, and she begins to tear up.  Later on, the rival professor's wife learns that he's been murdered, and she cries into a handkerchief.

Last edited by handkerchief (March 6, 2013 2:52 pm)

So handkierchief you're into ''handkerchief'' scenes ha? i mean this is the individual trait of your fetish - the use of a handkerchief? I'll try to remember where i have seen such scenes. I also watch funny crying scenes but only if they're genuine enough so that the actors in them ellicit real tears, not just dry cry or hiccup...if it makes scense. I saw All in the Family, Judge Edith epi.  but the scene with that guy bursting into a handkerchief is far too brief . There's a scene with jack nicholson in Anger Management, where he is told a lie by adam sandler and he cries in a very funny and quirky way while having tears streaming down his face.That was not supposed to be dramatic.! Another one is in The hot chick where ROB SCHNEIDER does a girlie weepie in many scenes but in one of them he really nails it by shedding actual tears. That's quite amazing because it's both funny and dramatic...Bronson Pinchot in an older comedic series such as Perect Strangers ( i don't remember the epi exactly but i guess it was in season 2) has again a very cool both funny and sad cry in it..

Last edited by psychic_girl (March 2, 2013 5:11 pm)

"Funny" crying, even with actual tears, just doesn't do it for me.  It's too patently obvious that the actor is "faking" crying.  After all, I can induce tears by rubbing lemon juice, Ben Gay, etc. into my eyes.  I've even heard Harrison Ford's secret to producing tears is a small bottle of onion juice.

Now, if it's an unbroken scene (no quick camera cuts) and it's obvious the actor is welling up, then I'm impressed.  That was one of the reasons the last couple Castle episodes were satisfying for me - Nathan Fillion didn't actually CRY, but there were a couple times when his eyes went from dry to visibly swimming.  If he'd blinked, there would have been tears falling.

Last edited by caircair (March 2, 2013 9:53 pm)