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As a member of the Kennedy clan, she was expected to marry someone like John Kerry - "some preppy who had gone to Harvard or Yale". But Shriver didn't like those boys. "I had been round them my whole life. I wanted out of that suffocation. I wanted someone different." She met her future husband when she was 21, and he was different all right. "Arnold wanted to be a star. He wanted to be famous. I thought that was great." The marriage hasn't always been easy, but Shriver maintains they are happy. "This is what she fell in love with - me," says her husband. "This is the way I am - outrageous, out there. And it comes with things that are not all rosy."
(The Week, December 2004)
the subject of his wife, Danielle. They first went out in 1991-2, until he left Australia
to pursue his Hollywood career. But even at the opposite ends of the earth, they couldn't
stop thinking about each other. "There's a certain magical thing about her and me together," he says.
"The very first time I went to an awards ceremony, she was my date. It was the Australian Film
Awards in 1991, and I won best supporting actor for Proof. Ten years later,
I invited her to be my date for the Oscars. When they announced that I had won - for Gladiator -
I turned to her and said: "This is because you're here." And I gave her a kiss.
It was just after that that we started seeing each other again."
(The Week, November 2003)
With him, I had at last met a man who liked girls to look like boys. I thought, 'What good fortune,'
and of course did lots of nude photographs. It was such a delight to have someone who thought you were beautiful."
Birkin was only 21 when she fell in love with the French singer, who became her second husband.
They recorded the sexiest song ever, Je t'aime, and became the toast of the Left Bank.
"Serge was an institution," she says. "He used to say to me when we were followed by photographers: 'We are mythology.'"
Their life was fabulously decadent. "Parties. Long lunches. Sifting on gilt chairs at couture houses
so Serge could buy me clothes. Yves St Laurent used to put on entire shows for me, privately."
But the most important thing, she says, was that "Serge loved and forgave me blindly".
Even when she left him for the film director Jacques Doillon in 1980, they remained the best of friends.
"Of course. He had a room in our house and I had one in his. Our partners did not think it was strange.
It was just the way it was." (The Week, January 2003)
"I went through my 35th birthday in total despair," she says. "The terrible thing was, I couldn't picture the
person I would end up with. I just couldn't see who it was going to be." In fact, she knew him already.
She had just finished making Planet of the Apes with the eccentric gothic director Tim Burton.
There had been no spark of romance on set, she says. "You know when you feel, that's a really nice person,
I wish we'd properly connected or had a proper conversation.
I remember leaving the film thinking, 'Oh well, never mind ... That's that,'"
But a year later, during a publicity tour for the film, they went out for supper together.
"And suddenly something happened: it was like a great big fist turning the world 45 degrees.
I remember going to the toilet and feeling quite disoriented. He felt that happen too.
It was quite an amazing, magical moment." The pair are now expecting a baby together.
Looking back, she says, it seems so obvious that they were perfect for each other.
"Since then, people who'd known us both have said, 'Duh..,'; they'd all thought, if only those two realised ... I just love him, it's as simple as that."
(The Week, May 2003)
Mary Crampton's fiancé, Albie Thompson, was captured in WW2, survived 5 years
as a POW, but was tragically killed in a plane crash on his way home.
Mary knew little about Albie's last years, but a former medic in the US Army, who had found
the letters and diaries in the wreckage of the plane, tracked her down on the net.
"We always took it for granted we'd get married", Mary said, "but it never happened."
(The Week, August 2003)
The Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, author of The Shipping News lives alone in the wilds of Wyoming. Her house is so high up in the plains visitors get altitude sickness, and so remote that she has to drive 100 miles to buy groceries. Divorced three times, Proulx is currently single, which is probably just as well. “I’m not wife material at all,” she explains. “I’m too selfish, too single-minded. I can’t do all the wifely things. I get hassled and angry and distracted. Some people are better off alone, and I’m one of them.” The silence in her log cabin is deafening - and that’s the way she likes it. “I can’t bear a lot of noise,” she says. “It sends me freaking! When I was a kid, to me the most dreadful sound in the world was my mom running the vacuum cleaner. Hate that noise! The whine of the senseless machine.”
(The Week, December 2004)
He claims to have bedded 2,000 women, usually has four girlfriends on the go at once, and is rarely seen without a bottle of Jack Daniels. "Some kid once asked me if I got bad hangovers. I said, `Man, to get hangovers, you have to stop drinking.’” Yet Lemmy, who grew up in Stoke on Trent, harbours some pretty old-fashioned values. For example, he disapproves of rudeness ("good manners are free; everybody should have them"), he loves reading, especially P G Wodehouse, and can be quite gallant, after his own fashion. Once, in LA, he saw a thug trying to drag a woman into a van. "And he had a f****** great sawn-off. But I couldn't see that happen, could I? Couldn't see her disappear and then the next day read about a body found in a skip, you know? And what I did was pull the gun away and say, `Leave her alone!' And all the time I'm thinking, `I don't even fancy this chick, and he's going to blow my f****** head off.’”
(The Week, November 2004)
It seems that Angelina Jolie never had much confidence in her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton.
When the couple married, she famously had his name tattooed on her arm.
But now it seems her pledge of undying love was a bit half-hearted.
"Something inside me knew the marriage wouldn’t be permanent," she
said. "So I had his name tattooed in a light colored ink
which I knew would disappear. I'm having it lasered off to speed up the process."
(The Week, August 2003)
Jack Nicholson's womanising wild life made him the envy of Hollywood.
But now, at 66, he's ready to admit that "there has been a downside. Have I found true love - whatever that is?
Can I honestly say that I have found true happiness?
I honestly envy those who have."
Jack may still be a bachelor, but he has lost his old appetite for sex.
"I'm a quieter man than I was 20 years ago. The girl might be young - but, hell,
I've got older.
The truth is. whatever you may read, I mostly sleep alone these days." (The Week, May 2003)
Jack Nicholson has finally fallen for someone of his own generation, said the Daily Express.
The 66-year-old playboy - whose last girlfriend, Lara Flynn Boyle, was just 33 - is stepping out
with Diane Keaton, 57. The pair got together while working on their new film, Something's Gotta Give.
"The movie finished filming in late summer but Jack and Diane continued to see each other,"
said a Nicholson source. "They are dating up a storm. Jack told me even he is surprised by their chemistry."
(The Week, November 2003)
to put herself back on the market. "There comes a time when dating is a little bit unseemly,"
she says. For one thing, the competition from younger women is too stiff. "Do guys who are 44
and attractive want to be with somebody who's 43, a year younger? The reality is, maybe they don't.
If I were a guy, would I think that way? Yeah, maybe I would!" She could always get a toy boy,
of course. "But it's boring. It's like, 'I already was 25. I understand your angst, but I
don't think I could go through it again, you know!" It's not as if she's on a last-minute
dash to have children. "I'm just one of those women who are not very child-oriented.
I mean, I like my nephew and I think he's cute, but every time I pick him up he jumps on my legs,
pulls my hair and wants to go back to his mother!'
(The Week, February 2002)
When our two souls stand up: erect and strong, face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher.
Until the lengthening wings break into fire at either curvèd point.
What bitter wrong can the earth do to us that we should not long be here contented?
of 12 real men, has smooth skin, symmetrical features, and a rounded
hairline and jaw - all traditionally feminine traits. The "perfect" male was
based on the tastes of 34 women, who assessed the faces of a dozen men and
gave them marks for masculinity and attractiveness. Researchers said that all of
the women preferred feminine features, while rugged masculine markings -
prominent jaws, beards - were shunned. "Modern women find femininity
appealing in a male face because they associate it with co-operation, honesty
and parental ability," said Dr Tony Little, who led the research. Little cites Jude Law
and Brad Pitt as the quintessential handsome men of our times, while
masculine types such as Arnold Schwarzenegger look too aggressive and
sexually voracious to make reliable partners. "Strongly masculine features are
now considered threatening." (The Week, December 2002)
"For years, I've been puzzled by why people think the saddest things are the most real.
'Searingly realistic' always means someone is going to be brutally murdered ...
Yet in real life, to a lot of people, what is searingly realistic is a mum getting up early,
loving her kids, being nice; a husband loving his wife. These things happen all the time."
Since September 11, he says, everyone has been preoccupied with "the harsh things in life,
the chaos and the hatred. More than ever, I think you have to say that isn't entirely what the
world is like. The other side of it is the love stuff." (The Week, September 2003)
Bruce Willis certainly knows how to impress the ladies. He was dining at an LA restaurant,
when a waiter spilled a bottle of champagne over a fellow diner, Sex and the City star
Kim Cattrall. Bruce immediately handed the waiter $1000 in cash, and told him to
"go out and buy the lady a new frock". Kim was so charmed by the gesture that she gave him her phone number.
(The Week, May 2003)
Instead, she found herself the victim of a tabloid hate-campaign about her weight. "I thought people would think, `What a nice girl'.
I was married to a doctor, faithful, had two lovely daughters. When people started saying, `She ate Stamford Hill', I was amazed and hurt."
As if that wasn't bad enough, her husband suddenly left her, saying she was "repulsive".
The shock knocked her for six. "Everything I had believed in, everything I had treasured, thought was solid, wasn't," she explains.
"Suddenly, you're thinking, `I'm on my own. Nobody knows what I am doing. Nobody cares.' That was shattering."
Five years on, Feltz is happily ensconced with a new lover. But she's still angry. "There are some marriages that are impossible.
But, if it's merely that you think, `Is that all?'; if it's just about changing the old cow for a new cow; if it's a feeling of entitlement to something more,
something different, something other; then I think that's desperately shallow.
And if there are children who are sacrificed in all of that, then I think it's desperately selfish." (The Week, November 2004)
Private letters discovered in Cuba revealed a man tormented by his nagging wife, Mary.
"Yesterday at lunch was shouted at and tongue-lashed about clothes," he writes sadly.
"I have tried to be as good as I know how, to give no cause for jealousy with other
women, and to get to the house at the exact hour I say I will be back for lunch...
The only thing that I have learnt is that it is better not to answer back."
(The Week, December 2002)
