Thank you for posting Lady Trueheart, a wonderful review and a sumptuous use of language.

favourite parts:

Obviously, Moonstruck is not a field guide to building intimacy. But it is the I-ching for Jungian romantics:

Why do men chase women?
God took a rib from Adam and made Eve. Maybe men chase women to get the rib back.

Why would a man need more than one woman?
Because he fears death.

On whether to accept an ill-chosen engagment ring:
Everything is temporary. That don't excuse nothing.

The correct response to an ill-timed "I love you"?
Snap out of it.

and:

Nic Cage, festering like a bread-baking Hephaestus, is crazy like a wolf.

Oh and...I too love the magicalness of Cher's transformation for the opera, it is very Cinderella like, and she has those gorgeous sparkly shoes....