Word: blume
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLUME IN LOVE...
...befuddled, sometimes frantic but eminently fitting hero who scrambles through this sly concordance of the perils of marriage is a Beverly Hills divorce lawyer named Steven Blume. His business is bustling, but his marriage has broken apart. As Blume in Love begins, he is in Venice licking his wounds, dwelling lovingly on memories of Nina (Susan Anspach). Their divorce, for Blume, has only quickened his consuming desire to possess her once again. "To be in love with your ex-wife is a tragedy," Blume pouts, watching the diverse assignations in St. Mark's Square with bemused, slightly melancholy detachment...
...Blume savors his exile, dotes on the recollections it brings of happier times with Nina (they honeymooned there), and tortures himself with images of guilt and treachery from the more recent past. Back in Venice, California, Nina worked for the state welfare office and returned early one day to find that Blume had, in his words, "taken his work home with him." "Hi, Mrs. Blume," said the work, sulking against the bedroom door, and Nina walked out. There was a quick, acrimonious divorce. Blume reveled briefly in the freedoms of bachelorhood, but turned possessive and desperate when Nina started keeping...