Word: exhusband
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...amiable "but I'm Mike to my friends" is "Of whom you have many, I'm sure." Poreba delivers such loaded lines with the perfect mix of sweetness and slyness, and men, including Connor, cannot help but fall helpless before her. While Tracy's relationship with her exhusband C.K. Dexter haven (Aaron Zelman) seems a bit too acidic at times, Tracy eventually proves to be nowhere near unbreakable, and Poreba vacillates admirably between the woman who tells her ex-husband to his face that she never loved him and who also melts at the thought of selling their mutual prize...
...gotta trade in your old car when it can't make the hills," was the way Entrepreneur Chuck Traynor, 34, explained his switch in roles: from exhusband and manager of Linda (Deep Throat) Lovelace to manager of Marilyn (Behind the Green Door) Chambers. "I hope I'm never your old car," giggled Marilyn after she had made a successful New Jersey nightclub debut preparatory to a Las Vegas gig. Meanwhile, Old Car Lovelace was making the grade quite nicely without Chuck. In Cambridge, Mass., she was awarded the Harvard Lampoon's "Wilde Oscar" for risking "worldly damnation...
...soundtrack, the hero's Volvo roars down the highway, the camera treating it as if it were Ferrari's greatest master-piece; the lovers on a tiny piece of grimy beach are flanked by stagehands running around with large strips of colored paper; the bossa nova singing exhusband becomes a pudgy Hawaiian who falls down a flight of stairs to his death. All this is fine but somewhere from the background comes a gnawing feeling that the conception owes too much to Lelouch--that Bartlett didn't really have much...
Less sparkling but still excellent is Philip Kerr, who uses his considerable talent to give the character of John Karslake, Cynthia's still hopeful exhusband, some color and depth. Paul Bristow is properly cold and mildly repulsive as Philip Phillimore, a judge who feels marriage should be contracted on rational, not emotional grounds, without any reference to love or similar nonsense...
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