Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hugh Grant is heterosexual?" and "Who's Hugh Grant?" If the story had any sizzle, it was because of the endearing persona the actor created in his one hit movie, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and in his eight-year amour with model Elizabeth Hurley. Snarly musclemen and tortured teen types, the Stallones and Depps, are supposed to misbehave; it's part of their public profile. But when the sinner is an Oxford grad peddling a boyish, domestic charm--the last good hope of vanishing gentility--he can expect to face the rude music. On his field trip into...
...Atonement Tour--by telling Jay and Katie how sorry he was to have hurt his family and girlfriend, by schmoozing stalwartly with Regis and Kathie Lee, by enduring Larry King's penny-Freud psychoanalyzing while admitting that his own behavior was "disloyal and shabby and goatish." And by defending Hurley (who uneasily accompanied him to the Nine Months Hollywood premiere) against the predatory voyeurism of the tabloid press. "They can go on hounding me, I suppose, as much as they like," he told Couric. "But they should damn well leave her alone...
...When the news hits Britain, where Grant is almost as popular as oxygen, people are baffled as to how he could have strayed from a lover with as many low-cut dresses as Estee Lauder spokesperson ELIZABETH HURLEY. The London Sun papers Sunset with posters offering $150,000 for an exclusive with Brown. Day's Big Rumor: Fox is panicking about prospects for Grant's first big-budget movie, Nine Months, out this month...
...THREE: Hurley appears publicly in a chin-up mint green suit, and later releases a statement saying she's "bewildered and saddened." Consensus in Hollywood: Grant's career is far from over. "He can work for me anytime," says Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein. Day's Big Rumor: Hurley will be forced to choose between Lauder and Grant...
...FOUR: Grant and Hurley, reunited at an English country house, lunch in range of telephoto lenses. Titillating reports circulate of a double bed being delivered. Madame Tussaud's says it will not drop plans for creating a wax effigy of Grant. Day's Big Rumor: No one will remember any of this next week...