World's Greatest Dad - VOD Review Sep 2, 2009
Lance s personal loneliness is slightly abated by a secret affair with a colleague (Alexie Gilmore) and an awkward friendship with an equally-isolated, aged neighbor (Mitzi McCall). Whereas any type of relationship with his hateful teenager proves a difficult undertaking. (Suite101.com)
The reality show that is American politics Jul 10, 2009
If I pieced together the story right, its because Jon had a secret affair with a woman named Rielle and there are allegations that they even made a sex tape together. No. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Cannes race gets serious as heavyweights step up May 16, 2009
In stark contrast to Campion's lighter fare, cult Korean director Park Chan-wook dished up a blood-curdling movie 10 years in the making, "Thirst", about a do-good priest turned vampire and his secret affair with a friend's wife. Sixteen years after winning the Palme with "The Piano" -- which went on to claim three Oscars including a best writer award for Campion -- Campion said little had changed for women in film. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Bright Star battles Thirst at Cannes May 16, 2009
In stark contrast to Campion's lighter fare, cult Korean director Park Chan-wook dished up a blood-curdling movie 10 years in the making, Thirst, about a do-good priest turned vampire and his secret affair with a friend's wife. Both are among 20 movies competing for the Palme, which will be delivered at the May 24 close of the world's premier movie showcase, featuring 12 frenzied days of screenings, partying and wheeling and dealing. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Winslet's first Oscar well deserved May 15, 2009
She plays a thirtysomething woman in a secret affair with a teenage boy in post World War II Germany. The plot then shifts to nine years later, when the boy is a law student shocked to see Winslet as a defendant in a Nazi war-crime trial. (Erie Times-News, PA)
'Humble Boy' entertains with words and wit Apr 16, 2009
Humble Boy' entertains with words and wit - The Boston Globe. Local Search Site Search. (Boston Globe)
Adventureland Review Apr 3, 2009
The younger staff members all look up to him and buy into his rocker persona; and he also happens to be in the midst of a secret affair with Em. James remains oblivious to this, even as he and Em begin to date, but Mottola is careful to portray Em and Connell's affair as the pathetic undertaking it is, as Connell sneaks out on his wife and takes Em to his sick mother's basement to have sex with her. (IGN FilmForce)
Drood the obscure, reimagined Mar 22, 2009
Collins narrates the book, and almost immediately proceeds to denigrate Dickens, detailing his shabby treatment of his wife, Catherine, and his secret affair with the young actress Ellen Ternan. His friend's iniquity established, Collins goes over the famous Staplehurst railway accident of June 9, 1865, in which a number of passenger cars plunged off a viaduct, killing 10 people and injuring many more. (Boston Globe)
Retired UNI prof writes intimate portrait of lifelong friend Vonnegut Mar 8, 2009
Rackstraw was a bit bemused when the London Sunday Times recently published an interview she gave about the memoir, emblazoned with the headline "My Secret Affair With Vonnegut," which, in most aspects, misses the book's point. Their friendship weathered Vonnegut's divorce and subsequent remarriage, the death of Rackstraw's poet husband, Richard, and the innumerable comings-and-goings of family and friends. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
