What can we learn from serial celebrity break-ups, billionaire bust-ups, misbehaving spouses, pants-on challenged politicos and the ever-shifting landscape of divorce law?? Question is, "What CAN'T we learn"? With latte in hand and clicky finger at the ready, dive in for the best in divorce news, views, gossip, and buzz – assembled below for your reading pleasure. Being in "d" know is just clicks away.
Conflict, heartache, betrayal, and, uh, comedy? Yep, ripe with drama — often to the point of hilarity — divorce has served as perfect grist for movie-makers since the silent era. For our viewing pleasure, Reel Girl over at E! Online has composed a list of the top ten divorce movies of all time.
All the usual suspects are listed like "Kramer vs. Kramer," "The First Wives Club," "Irreconcilable Differences," and our all-time fave, "The War of the Roses."
She also devilishly includes Mike Nichols' "Closer," which challenges even the most steadfast romantic, and the equally bleak "We Don't Live Here Anymore." Her top pick, though, "The Squid and the Whale," is a realistic yet heartening depiction of new relationships emerging from the wreckage of old and dying ones — the best you can hope for from a divorce.
Still, there are countless films that brilliantly capture either the harsh realities of splitting, or help us to laugh at the whole affair. While it doesn't explicitly deal with divorce per se, "Reversal of Fortune" perfectly captures the dark complexity of decaying relationships.
We're always a sucker for the cold urbanity of Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives." Then, on the lighter side, there's the adorable Dick van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds in the late 60s' classic "Divorce American Style."
Tell us your top picks. Jim Carrey in "Liar, Liar"? Schwarzenegger in "True Lies"? What will it be?
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Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay. You can't even keep your nose clean in rehab!
Bottoming-out actress Lindsay Lohan is now being blamed for breaking up the marriage of Tony Allen — the rocker she allegedly bedded while at the Cirque Lodge clinic in Utah last month.
The supposed tryst has been cited in the divorce proceedings between Allen and his now estranged millionaire wife, Stephanie. Now, Stephanie has filed an affidavit claiming the "defendant's conduct with another woman" has lead to the union being "irretrievably broken." Lohan is named in the papers filed.
"My husband entered a drug rehabilitation centre in Utah on July 11 2007," the affidavit reads. "After my husband's return from said rehabilitation I was bombarded by telephone calls alerting me to the fact my husband's conduct with another woman was on the internet and in gossip magazines."
"They looked very cute together," according to a source talking to In Touch magazine. "You could definitely tell from watching them that there was something going on. It was very apparent they were a couple."
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