Word: paramour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After hearing but a few notes over the car radio, he can identify Mahler's Fifth Symphony. He can also quote Aldous Huxley. His paramour is both impressed and baffled. "Who's Aldous Huxley?" she asks...
...what Don needs." Neither, most emphatically, is Mom, who nevertheless turns out to be a real heroine. Realizing after all her conniving that it is time her boy became a man, she departs in a cloud of humility, leaving Don to fend for himself and perhaps convince his paramour to return...
...marry a flashy blonde modeling student he had set up with an apartment and a new Cadillac. The Mafiosi were aghast. For one thing, divorce suits often expose embarrassing financial arrangements. For another, jilted wives have a way of blabbing their troubles. Don Carlo's decision was final: paramour yes, divorce no. On May 18 Manny vanished...
...evening of the long knives. For Chaplin it came early and never seemed to lighten. After a series of affairs with leading, supporting, featured, walk-on and crowd-scene actresses, Chaplin took up with the adolescent Lita Grey. A relative of Lita's had news for her paramour: in California, dallying with a minor was statutory rape. Charlie and Lita were married in November 1924. She was his second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation. The American public booed his on-screen image; annihilation beckoned. Chaplin tried a master tactic. "I married...
...dear!), and carrying on in various ways with a pretty governess and a pair of fresh-faced children borrowed from Henry James. Brando is Peter Quint, the ghostly valet of The Turn of the Screw turned into a gardener. The governess is Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), his haunting paramour. The film's Big Idea is to make precise what James left terrifyingly ambiguous: just how Quint and Jessel died, and what they did to corrupt poor young Flora and Miles before James' story begins with the arrival of a new governess...