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Ads by Google      Romantic love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pride and Prejudice) have romantic love as the main theme. In more modern times romantic love has been the theme of art and entertainment in all its forms. Similarly much of more popular culture from theatre to film to popular music has romantic love at its heart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_love   (923 words)      Romance Films Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. Two of the earliest romantic (or quasi-erotic) screen couples in the silent era were the seductively-beautiful, beguiling and bewitching Greta Garbo and her handsome screen counterpart John Gilbert, two MGM stars who first appeared together in Flesh and the Devil (1927) with three artistically-lit love scenes. Oftentimes, lovers in screen romances (often romantic dramas) face obstacles and the hazards of hardship, finances, physical illness, racial or social class status, occupation, psychological restraints, or family that threaten to break their union and attainment of love. http://www.filmsite.org/romancefilms.html   (923 words)      Love - Love & Romance at Love.Org I am a hopeless romantic and love chivalry,,, horses, dancing, singing, dinner by candlelight, simple fun times and being a kid once in a while... Love.org is the newest and best Love site with ZIP code search, large photos & slide show. I love to make people laugh and to laugh myself. http://www.love.org/love.htm   (307 words)      Commentaries: Happily Ever After? - Christianity Today Movies Rare is the romantic movie that gets beyond the falling-in-love stage to show a couple learning how to live in a marriage after the rush of romantic love begins to dim. Even though I've been married to a wonderful man for 10 years, it's hard to go to a romantic film and not be a bit wistful for the rush of young love—which is where most romantic films invest their time. I do, however, find that so many romantic comedies seem to have an insidiously strong influence on me and on my friends—both male and female—with all kinds of messages that are out-of-sync with God's teachings about love, relationships and marriage. http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/commentaries/happilyeverafter.html   (307 words)      INDOlink - Love Connection - The science of love - I get a kick out of you Then there is attraction, or the state of being in love (what is sometimes known as romantic or obsessive love). In 2000, Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College, London, located the areas of the brain activated by romantic love. Who and how a person has loved in the past are important determinants of his (or her) capacity to fall in love at any given moment in the future. http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=031005015121   (2707 words)      Love Actually (2003) Love Actually is an unabashedly romantic feel-good comedy that will stop at nothing to be loved itself. Love Actually has enough material for five or six romantic comedies, and cramming them all together presents a dilemma. And Love Actually, despite some problems, is a big warm-fuzzy that is funny and entertaining enough to see. http://www.moovees.com/review/billp/love-actually.html   (615 words)      s10.txt _____ love, or romantic love, is an intense emotional experience that includes sexual desire, elation, anxiety, ecstasy, and tenderness. Hatfield (1988) distinguished between _____________ love (romantic love) and companionate love (affectionate love). Pam, Plutchik, and Conte found that physical attraction and _____ are very important in a love relationship. http://www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/ch10/s10.txt   (615 words)      Lovehotels This hotel with it cute rooms and less emphasis on sexy decor is part of the trend in which love hotels try to appeal to females who want a romantic night out with their boyfriends. Hotel the Rock is a love hotel with an Alcatraz theme. Love Hotels at soccerphile.com is an essay about the history and sociology of love hotels. http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/hotels.html   (3662 words)      "All Aboard ...." - A Profile of Kermit Ruffins While ReBirth and Kermit were once considered synonymous, the amicable split prompted tremendous growth for both operations; ReBirth continues to roll, allowing their music to take them on reckless thrill rides into the funky netherworld, while the romantic Ruffins has stopped rambling in favor of structure and swinging out. Kermit is bound to continue pleasing the crowds with his ideas and innovations and long time fans would do well to hold on tight for what is sure to be an exciting ride ahead. Kermit's willingness to take on and coordinate such a monstrous enterprise is impressive, and his recruitment of legendary composer and arranger Wardell Quezerque to guide the Big Band is a testament to Kermit's increasingly serious approach to his music, not to mention his reverence for those who came before him. http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/kermit.html   (3662 words)      Love Actually - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Love Actually is a romantic comedy film first released in cinemas in October and November 2003. As of July 2005, Love Actually had achieved a US gross box office of over $59 million and a world box office of just under $245 million. Taglines: It's all about love...actually and Love actually is all around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually   (1915 words)      Consummate Love To complete his theory, Sterberg defines eight distinctive types of love: Nonlove, Liking, Infatuated Love, Empty Love, Romantic Love, Companionate Love, Fatuous Love, and Consummate Love. Sternberg goes on to suggest that passion forms romantic as well as sexual attraction. He also cites the following as passionate expressions: kissing, hugging, gazing, touching, and love making. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/romance_retired/2576   (1915 words)      Film Threat - Reviews Likewise, the director could make a movie focused on developing the attraction between Jamie and Aurelia because as it is presented in “Love Actually,” you canÂ’t figure out why and how they fall in love. The film lives up to its hype, depicting love among a dozen or so individuals as they profess, achieve, or hold onto the loves of their lives over the five weeks before Christmas. The film also follows Daniel (Liam Neeson) as he helps his young stepson Sam (Thomas Sangston) summon up the courage to proclaim his love for the coolest girl in school. http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=5138   (713 words)      Amazon.com: DVD: Enduring Love (Widescreen Edition) Enduring Love is all about chaos of love and how we must endure this chaos, in the form of chaotic romantic love, obsessive love, and perhaps also the love of faith. In ENDURING LOVE, a Joe (Craig) and Claire's (Morton) romantic picnic is disrupted after a hot air balloon drifts into a field, appearing to be in trouble. Nervy and complex, Enduring Love constantly teases the boundary between reality and hallucination. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007R4TJ4?v=glance   (713 words)      Love Actually "Love Actually is to the romantic-comedy genre what a Sherman tank is to sport- utility vehicles." "There are no fewer than nine interlocking and overlapping love stories in Richard Curtis' deadly epic sprawl of a romantic comedy, Love Actually. "It wants to swirl round the world and find love in every cranny, but it doesn't have the effortless rush of energy that it would need to make the masses of plot come together." http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/love_actually   (1066 words)      The Enduring Popularity of Courtly Love The concept of romantic love rising to a higher plane and transforming the life of the giver for the sake of the receiver, is celebrated to be sure, but only as a fleeting thing, an infatuation which is bound to fade with time. Throughout Europe, courtly love was both fashionable and desirable, as troubadors and Minnesaenger sang of lady love, or Minne. Courtly love sang of the nobility of the feminine in ways that had not been heard for centuries. http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/court.html   (1066 words)      Love Actually (2003) A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, Love Actually is still nearly as cloying as it is funny…its cheeky wit, impossibly attractive cast and sure-handed professionalism are beguiling. Like Moulin Rouge, it maintains that love is the predominant and only worthy positive force in the human condition, and like most romantic comedies pretends that that force exists in a vacuum apart from the rest of life's realities. Surely love is a desirable enough commodity that it doesn't require such a hard sell. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/loveactually   (1066 words)      Love Actually (2003): Reviews A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, Love Actually is still nearly as cloying as it is funny…its cheeky wit, impossibly attractive cast and sure-handed professionalism are beguiling. Consider Love Actually the antidote to "Mystic River." Though it would be dishonest to call this an unqualified success, it would be churlish not to tip the hat to Love Actually's genuine charm. http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/loveactually   (2011 words)      Love Hotels in Japan :: Japan Visitor The words ‘love’ and ‘hotel’ combined in the English language conjure up romantic images of energetic weekends away, breakfast in bed, walks in the woods, dinner by candlelight with champagne - and whatever else springs to mind - by an open fire. • Love hotels are a potential source of cheap accommodation during your stay in Japan. A married couple wishing to add some spice to their love life, and a ‘salaryman’ (office worker), stumbling out of a bar with his favourite ‘office-lady’ (female office worker) after a night’s team-building karaoke and drinking, have the perfect location for a furtive clinch. http://www.japanvisitor.com/jc/lh.html   (1090 words)      romantic love romantic love can only continue if companionate love develops or was there all along. I raise this point because it contrasts with romantic love, which can arise quite suddenly. On the other hand, if their romantic love is combined with companionate love, the companionate love will counteract these romantic impulses. http://www.relationshipsandlove.com/romantic_and_companionate_love.htm   (1090 words)      Amazon.ca: Love Actually (Widescreen): DVD I thought love actually was a refreshing take on the typical romantic comedy. Tackling the venerable genre of ensemble comedy with an approach that's more Dr. Frankenstein than Robert Altman, Love Actually strives to encompass the romantic longings of a gaggle of characters both young and old, straight and rampantly straight, wealthy and merely middle-class. The good and the bad are shown in this movie, but in the end I believe that love is actually all around us - we just have to look for it. http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JMFQ   (525 words)      BBC NEWS Entertainment Ghost tops romantic love scenes poll Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze's clinch over a pottery wheel in Ghost has been voted the top love scene in a film poll of UK cinema-goers. The romantic list also included scenes from Brief Encounter (number six), Gone With The Wind (number seven), From Here To Eternity (number eight) and Bridget Jones' Diary (number nine). Entertainment) Casablanca voted greatest love story ( 12 Jun 02 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/2737323.stm   (525 words)      'There is a lot of hype about my love scenes with Aryan Vaid'- The Times of India On her personal life I am a very romantic person and just love the idea of romance on the beach. Though there is a rumour that it took six days to shoot a romantic song, in reality it took only three days and there is a three minute shot in the film which has been done very subtly. On the bold scenes in Chaahat Ek Nasha Though there is a lot of hype about my love scenes with Aryan Vaid, in reality it's not even half as hot as any of the recently released films. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/834406.cms   (525 words)      Review: Love Actually The film is about love in its many forms and guises: love between siblings, love between parents and children, love between spouses, puppy love, platonic love, unrequited love, and (of course) sexual/romantic love. Consider Love Actually the antidote to Mystic River. I suppose one could consider Love Actually as a holiday motion picture, since there's a heavy does of Christmastime atmosphere. http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/l/love_actually.html   (775 words)      Love Actually In a very warm way, Love Actually shows a lot of people coping with romantic opportunities and romantic problems, often fucking up, sometimes moving forward. Because Love Actually is a fairly traditional romantic comedy, the situations are contrived. Since there are so few films which accomplish that, we need to forgive its faults and love it unconditionally. http://www.scoopy.com/loveactually.htm   (1816 words)      Pandagon: The death of good romantic comedies The classic screwball comedies we all know and love came from a period when a woman's being ambitious was enough to cause friction with the males around her. I'll admit I thought that movie was a hoot, even though the presumed heroine was the worst of the worst of modern romantic comedy heroines--you get the impression that her very lack of a spark or personality is why Stiller's character is so devoted to her, which makes exactly no sense at all. Yet there were a fair number of posters of the two actors on the bedroom walls of adolescent women, so it's not like they were being portrayed as asexual. http://www.pandagon.net/archives/2005/06/the_death_of_go.html   (1816 words)      USATODAY.com - Babymooning is booming business • A hotel by chance, the Mountain View: The Grand Resort and Spa, in Whitefield, N.H., has offered some of New England's most amazing views since 1865 when a group of stranded travelers fell in love with their impromptu host's property and encouraged him to open a boarding house. Having romantic dinner plans canceled because your sitter didn't show can ruin any vacation. The South Beach Miami hotel, under construction on Collins Avenue and due to open late next year, will have 232 rooms averaging 736 square feet, a huge spa and fitness center, plus two pools, one of which will be an elaborate rooftop setup, a la NYC. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/hotsheet/column.htm   (894 words)      Review: Must Love Dogs Must Love Dogs is bland and forgettable - a romantic comedy with affable characters and some funny lines, but where love never really takes flight. Unfortunately, Must Love Dogs feels the need to incorporate the age-old contrivance of "romantic complications." In this case, they are provided by Bob, who is supposed to be engaging and charismatic, but is instead boring. The strange thing about Must Love Dogs is that it's funnier than the average romantic comedy (most of which lack true, laugh-aloud humor) but less romantic. http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/m/must_love.html   (894 words)      cfbgoespop: Spiderwebster Completed - at last When Dirk plans a romantic evening night out, Nikki relishes the chance to finally have some fun, but on the way to the restaurant, she passes by the lab to say hello to Jena, only to notice an ambulance and several policeman milling around outside. As locals gather around, including Dirk, there’s a close up shot of Nikki, looking totally blank, and totally still, until a single tear goes down her cheek. Devon feels shut out of the organisation, and falls into more trouble at a local pool hall. http://www.livejournal.com/users/cfbgoespop/365489.html   (894 words)      For Love or Money Movie Review As a perfect example, witness FOR LOVE OR MONEY, a cliche-filled would-be romantic comedy that's neither particularly romantic nor particularly funny. Like THE ADDAMS FAMILY, FOR LOVE OR MONEY is too ham-fisted, and Sonnenfeld's few stylistic flourishes are lost in slow pacing and mishandled actors. It starts promisingly enough, with a focus on Doug's wheeling and dealing, but once the romantic plot kicks in there's just no energy. http://www.killermovies.com/b/bigfish/reviews/13v.html   (709 words)      The Love Boat Next Wave TV Show The Love Boat Next Wave TV show was a comedy series about various couples' romantic encounters aboard a luxury cruise ship and the crew's interactions with themselves and the passengers. It was a remake of the series, "The Love Boat (1977)" on a new ship called the "Sun Princess" which sailed from Florida to the Caribbean, moving the action from the Pacific Ocean (on the original series) to the Atlantic. Episode #10, "Reunion" got its name from the fact that the cast from the original Love Boat appeared on that episode. http://www.crazyabouttv.com/loveboatnextwave.html   (329 words)

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