On and on and on did that song go until Titanic finally sunk into its procrustean bed of SNL mockery. Unless, of course, you happened to be a voting member of the 1997 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who bestowed the Oscar for Best Original Song to overly fizzy, Canadian pop songstress Celine Dion for My Heart Will Go On. The year was 1998, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, two newbies to Hollywood via Boston, held the red carpet and an entire post-modern generation captive with the quasi-autobiographical screenplay Good Will Hunting. Elliott Smith was alive and making tremendously gorgeous music. It happened before the train wrecks Stuck on You, Jersey Girl, and Bennifer.
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