Word: jealous
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...line between commitment to ideals and obsession and insanity. And while it will shock nobody that Committed is not hard to watch visually, it may surprise some that this movie isn't at all painful to sit through. It is actually rather fun, and funny at points. In a jealous rage Joline sticks a banana into Carmen's fuel tank, and then confesses to her later-you may not be on the floor in tears, but this is not one of those romantic comedies that forgets the comedy. And while the film may not be profound it is not unoriginal...
...Jewish in Peoria, Ill. ("Mostly, my mother made me feel bad about myself"); her fascination with communism after graduating from Smith College; and the strain of her 22-year marriage to Carl Friedan. After the success of The Feminine Mystique, her husband, who had originally encouraged her research, grew jealous of her success and, she alleges, became physically abusive. "It seems as if I never went on television shows in those days without a black eye I had to cover over with makeup," she writes. "I was a disgrace, really, to the women's movement by being such a worm...
...called Margaret and asked how her great-grandson was. She said she had seen him earlier in the week, and that he was "just adorable" (correct great-grandmother intonation is impossible in print) and seemed to be growing up happy and healthy. She said she was even a little jealous of the fathers' relationship with the boy. "When he sees me he cries and wants to go with one of the two daddies," she said...
...baby-faced actress with a Korean accent and a Betty Boop voice. Yet ponytailed and blue-jeaned Rebecca Seo, 9, brings to the role all the majesty of Elizabethan prose as she stands on a desk at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, declaiming, "The venom clamours of a jealous woman/ Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth...
...Accusation #1: The "Jealous Boyfriend" Clich. According to one columnist, at a post-Oscar party, nominee Russell Crowe (perhaps slightly intoxicated) was "overinsistent" with Winona and got just a little too touchy-feely with her for Matt's taste (not only did Russell steal his Oscar nom, he also was making moves on his girl). So Matt freaks, Russell double freaks, both erupt in hysterics, Russell leaves in a tizzy, Matt cuddles the traumatized Ryder. Isolated incident? Well, not if you consider...