Word: trysts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gosh darn, everything would be just fine if Joan (Kathleen Turner) just hadn't accepted that offer from Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome Omar-the-Arab (Spiros Focas) to write his biography. Now Jack (Michael Douglas) is all upset--jealous, just like a man--and their blissful little tryst comes to an end as Joan flies off to North Africa to observe Omar in his natural habitat and Jack huffs and puffs all the way back to the Carribean and his precious boat...
Father (Miki Manojlovic) is a functionary in the Yugoslav Department of Labor and, whenever he gets the chance, a dedicated philanderer. During a tryst on a train, he deflects pleas of love from a randy gym teacher with an offhand "Who loves anybody in this madhouse?" Before you can say "compulsory resocialization," he is sent to a labor camp--or, as his six-year-old son Malik (Moreno D'E Bartolli) is told, "Father is away on business...
...Hunt's older sister is Mary Frances Bailey (Donna Reed), wife of George Bailey (James Stewart) of It's a Wonderful Life. Those who must believe the worst about even the nicest people will be pleased to learn that George and Sister-in-Law Laura enjoyed a pre-Christmas tryst at New York City's Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma...
...sign of the industry's brainstorming is the burgeoning number of occasions for which greetings are available. Card buyers can now congratulate a friend on getting a driver's license, buying a new car or completing a successful diet. Customers can use cards to announce a divorce, propose a tryst or console a pal whose pet dog has died. Carrying that marketing strategy to an extreme, California Dreamers, a Chicago company, has put out an all-purpose Generic Greeting Card. The message: "Whatever...
Moral criticism of adultery having become unfashionable, we must make do with the inconvenience of the thing as the last barrier against total sexual anarchy. If the experience of Frank Raftis (Robert De Niro) and Molly Gilmore (Meryl Streep) is typical, the difficulty of arranging a discreet tryst remains a powerful weapon on the side of the angels. Indeed, Falling in Love shows an extramarital affair to be the neutron bomb of interpersonal relations, capable of wiping out all intelligent life, leaving only the bare generic conventions of romantic fiction standing stark against...