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...Vega's breakthrough role came in 2001's Lucía y el Sexo (Sex and Lucía), in which she plays a luminous, besotted lover. Thinking her boyfriend has died in an accident, she travels to his favorite island where she uncovers a secret about his past. Her performance - tender, impassioned and real - won her a Goya award (Spain's Academy Award) for best new actress. Her early career had its memorable nude scenes, but it was Vega's ability to inject her characters with a fiery sensuality that kept Spanish eyes on her. Moments like...
...film’s message about love is actually a fantastical joke once its ending arrives and drenches the previous two hours of drivel with an appropriate escape from reality. As Stiles is auditioning for Julliard, she stops mid-way, unable to finish, but wait—hot boyfriend enters the scene, provides encouragement, and she moves directly into a hip-hop ballet fusion piece that drops the judges’ collective jaw! In fact, it’s so amazing that the judges tell her right away that she’s accepted, even though they likely have...
Whereas my mother and her friends had set expectations and understood rules for how to find a boyfriend, today uncertainty reigns. Girls like Sonia and Rosenfeld are forced to turn to He’s Just Not That Into You to figure out how to interpret the meanings of their love interests’ e-mails, facebook messages, and body language. Like the authors of their “Bible,” they become nostalgic, wishing dating was more common and roles more clearly delineated...
...tightly closed loops in which a foursome trades partners--what co-author Peter Bearman calls the Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice phenomenon, after the 1969 film. Teenagers seem to shy from such post-breakup swaps. Bearman, who heads the sociology department at Columbia University, suggests that dating the former boyfriend of your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend may involve a loss of status or cross a line of loyalty. "It's an incest taboo of sorts," suggests co-author James Moody, an Ohio State sociologist. The behavior is a big factor in creating the long chains that spread germs...
...offers in Madison, and the only person she knew there was her older sister, but she had nothing tying her to Chicago (her boyfriend had moved to Europe) and she needed a change. The risk paid off. She got a position as an assistant at a photo studio, and she loves it. "I decided it was more important to figure out what to do and to be in a new environment," Galantha says. "It's exciting, and I'm in a place where I can accomplish everything. But starting over is the worst...