If Hollywood's response to terrorism will be to exile harsh reality in favor of the pretty side of life, the result may turn out to look like Serendipity. God forbid. Does romantic comedy have to come off as sugared stupidity? It does here. Even the appeal of co-stars John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale can't keep this love boat from sinking.

It's Christmas in Manhattan — yes, the Twin Towers have been removed — and Jonathan (Cusack) and Sara (Beckinsale) meet cute while shopping (Eugene Levy earns the film's only laughs as a sadistic salesman). They flirt cute by refusing to exchange names. They part cute when Sara insists that if they're meant to be together, fate will intervene. She writes her name in a book; he does the same on a five-dollar bill. Ten years later, Jonathan and Sara still pine for each other, even though she's engaged and he's about to get married. It's up to the once-talented director Peter Chelsom (Funny Bones)-who must shoulder blame for this turkey and Town and Country- to goose destiny for the lovers. Isn't that cute? Enough to make you cringe.

“All Along the Watchtower”

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."