Word: honeymooners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suitor to make his move. So far, true to form, Greenspan, 71, isn't saying much about his big day, opting instead to express his feelings by handing out phony $100 bills with the couple's picture. By all accounts, the busy power couple has not planned a honeymoon. -- Elizabeth Owen
Along with its portrayal of physical love and women's lib, Hotel de Love is, at its core, a romantic comedy. Through the story of a group of potential lovers spending the weekend at a honeymoon hotel notorious for its kitschy themed rooms, the film takes a enlightening, quirky look at romance...
Rosenberg first got the idea for the film during a trip to Niagara Falls. After seeing the Falls, he started talking with the very cynical manager of the honeymoon hotel where he was staying. He was fascinated by the stories of "brides and bridegrooms getting out of their limousines directly from their wedding and having these incredible knock-down, drag-out fights right in the hotel foyer before they'd even gone up to their room." The hotel also featured what Rosenberg termed "very watered-down fantasy theme rooms...
While the plot can be a bit predictable and tedious at times, it is salvaged by the spectacle of the circus surrounding it. Perhaps the most valuable supporting role belongs to the hotel itself. Inspired by a Niagara Falls honeymoon hotel, the Hotel de Love features outrageously creative "theme" rooms such as the "Garden of Eden" room, complete with tree, forbidden fruit and serpent, and the "The Grand Finale Passion Suite," modeled after a cricket stadium with astro-turf and recordings of cheering crowds. The rooms nearly steal every scene in which they appear...
...condition: that the organization "Europeanize" its command structure. Last summer Chirac insisted that the alliance's southern command in Naples, which includes the U.S. Sixth Fleet, be assigned to a European officer instead of the traditional American admiral. Washington said no way, Chirac dug in his heels, and the honeymoon was over. Suddenly the U.S. and France seemed to be butting heads all over the globe. Cases in point...