This is an aside since I already mentioned watching this movie last week. But I'm watching Romancing the Stone again, and I now recall, as a child I never got the joke that Joan Wilder is actually a terrible writer. The opening scene dramatices one of her novels as she writes it and her narration is absolutely terrible, hugely cliched for romance novelists, the type of thing that makes you roll your eyes...and then we cut to her writing it and she's bawling her eyes out as though it's the most beautiful thing ever written. For some reason I just remembered that as a kid I thought that scene was about how awesome a writer she is and that's why she's so famous. But she's actually more like a 1980s Stephanie Meyer.