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Word: philan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compensate for the movie's so-what story, Stone has also tried to fashion a Hepburn-Tracy relationship for his hero and heroine. Bisset is cast as the world's greatest (and probably thinnest) pastry chef, while Segal plays her ex-husband, a fast-food maven whose philan dering broke up the marriage. It is not the actors' fault that they walk through the film with plastic smiles: the characters' debates over the merits of haute cui sine and Big Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this couple ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Boil | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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