Opening this week, as if to confirm what a rotten, unoriginal summer it’s been for Hollywood, Must Love Dogs is a romantic comedy that feels like yet another remake. It’s not, though almost every line and comic situation is dispiritingly familiar.
Diane Lane plays Sarah, late thirties, divorced for eight months, moping about in ghastly childlike pyjamas and now besieged by her large family, all oddly eager to launch her on the dating scene. Her sisters post her profile on a matchmaking website, describing her as “voluptuous” (she isn’t) and adding the caveat that gives the film its irritating title.
Related Travel Information
FOR most of us a suntan is all we bring back from our holidays but one Ipswich woman has found a new addition to the family after falling in puppy-love while abroad.
Julie Grimwood was on holiday in Crete with her husband, Tony, and daughters Kelly, 13, and Shannon, 10, when a puppy appeared at her temporary home.
Mrs Gimwood, instantly fell in love with the puppy, called Koko, and now hopes to bring it back to her home, in Windrush Road, Kesgrave.
She said: "He turned up two days before we left and I couldn't take my eyes off him.
"I spoke to
The high-tech jargon of Internet dating meets the old-fashioned situations of onscreen romance and heartwarming comedy ensues. That's the gist of a new romantic comedy co-starring John Cusack and Diane Lane; and Alan Silverman has a look at Must Love Dogs.
The 'personals ad' takes a new place of prominence in the modern American dating scene as portrayed in Must Love Dogs the story of divorcee Sarah, whose sisters, brother and even her father all want to find her a new mate.
Diane Lane plays Sarah and believes the real-life anguish of divorce is not out of place in a comedy.
"I think
British funnyman Steve Coogan has rubbished reports he's secretly dating troubled rocker Courtney Love.
The 41-year-old former Hole singer was spotted with Coogan in an Los Angeles hotel for two weeks last month where they openly flirted in front of other guests.
A source tells British newspaper The Sun: "Courtney was all over Steve. They were flirting in front of everyone."
Love, who received three-years probation in February for assault, has even penned the comic a love note, it reads, "It's so weird and wrong and good and sweet and evil being with you. You are beautiful my little baby - oh
To describe certain situations, one can as easily reach for the word "cliche" as the word "truth."
Were it not for playwright Craig Wright's gift for sure-footed, emotionally valid dialogue, that's the choice one would face with his play "The Pavilion," now at the Rattlestick Theater in New York City.
As evidence of Wright's skill in writing characters with cross-grained dimensions, he just finished a four-year assignment co-writing many of the scripts for the television series "Six Feet Under."
"Pavilion," written in 2000 and one in a series of plays set in the small town of Pine City, Minn., has been
British funnyman STEVE COOGAN has rubbished reports he's secretly dating troubled rocker COURTNEY LOVE.
The 41-year-old former HOLE singer was spotted with the AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS actor in an Los Angeles hotel for two weeks last month (JULY05) where they openly flirted in front of other guests.
A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "Courtney was all over Steve. They were flirting in front of everyone."
Love, who received three-years probation in February (05) for assault, has even penned the comic a love note, it reads, "It's so weird and wrong and good and sweet and evil being with you.