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...Cookie," as the hapless cameraman trampled by a runaway football player and browbeaten into filing a false insurance claim by his ambulance-chasing brother-in-law. In 1968's "The Odd Couple," Lemmon was the surrealistically fastidious Felix Unger to Matthau's slovenly Oscar Madison - a movie whose comedic bliss is occasionally spoiled by the discomfort brought on by the sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring in six more films (plus 1971's "Kotch," in which Lemmon directed Matthau to an Oscar nomination), a string...
...police officer asked if everything was okay because he saw the young lady jump as Benjie approached her. Benjie explained that he was proposing, and the cop replied, "Congratulations, but you could have done it in a restaurant." But the excitement didn't end there. In their post-engagement bliss, they drove into the city and parked their car in a no-parking zone, only to find it towed the next morning. While waiting in the car pound for several hours, they made phone calls to friends and family to share the good news...
...some, marital bliss may be short-lived. No one in Vermont has yet filed for dissolution, but town clerks and local attorneys are already getting calls asking how to terminate a civil union. As it turns out, that's harder than getting hitched. Though residency isn't required for a civil union, it is to get out of one. That's a six months' stay in Vermont for at least one partner. But couples in the throes of marital bliss rarely bother to read the fine print...
...tired, uninventive romantic film plot is born when a happily married architect celebrating 25 years of bliss suddenly catches the seven-year itch. In Town and Country, Porter Stoddard (Warren Beatty) is every post-menopausal woman’s dream husband. He’s rich and successful, not too handsome to be dangerous and blessed with an adorable charm. But suddenly things go awry—a flash of décolletage here and there is enough to evoke in poor Porter a supercharged sexuality. An unbelievable number of affairs later—not even...
...investigating the magical herb, it seems I have likely destroyed its power. The ignorance that created the placebo-powered cold-busting green torpedo has given way to an understanding of sterile, uninspiring data. While it seems that in this case, ignorance may have been healthful bliss, I must believe that the loss of some small area of mystery under the boot of scientific progress, no matter how inconvenient now, can only be rewarded in the future...