Pound Pup Legacy

What is it that keeps our eyes on the sad and sorry?  Is it the passion of the stories that keeps us intoxicated? Or is it compassion we crave and seek through others?

There's a quiz on msn's A-List (what-ever that means): 

http://msnalist.spaces.live.com

What makes a great love story? Start with a young promising couple; add a difficult situation (opposite sides of the track, substance abuse, accident, illness); end it with an untimely death.

Test your knowledge of the great tragic romances, fictional and real.  

1. Scene 1, Act 5: He swept her off her feet with one of the best pick-up lines ever written, "Let  lips do what hands do." (Answer.) 
2. She died from a mysterious stab wound in the Chelsea hotel in 1978; four months later, her punk rock boyfriend overdosed on the heroin he got from his mom. (Answer.) 
3. This actress starred as Maria in a tragic American love story (think musical). She drowned during an outing on her husband’s boat, The Splendor. (Answer.)
4. They starred in the quintessential love story of the ’70s. We cried to lines like: "Love means never having to say you're sorry." (Answer.) 
5. Everyone mourned the day we lost another prince from the American Camelot dynasty. He and his wife died in a crash during the summer of ’99. (Answer.)

Do "we" really care and cry for these people, or do "we" wish we were these people, knowing people are crying, caring, and cheering for us?