Monthly Archives: August 2013

Why do I always fall for Jerks – Is there hope for Rihanna?

Rihanna is fabulously talented, beautiful, wealthy and desired.  At one level it seems hard to understand why she would choose to be in a relationship with an aggressive and violent man like Chris Brown and then to return to him following repeated domestic violence. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgQ8aN1-pM] In fact her situation is  far more common than we […]

The Demon Dance – or what to do when the love drugs wear off

I confess I was dragged to watch this movie and I muttered and grumbled and squirmed but this final scene made it all worth while.  The Story of Us tracks Pleiffer and Willis tearing themselves and their marriage apart in a slow, torturous and scarily familiar decline – and finally when things seem hopeless this […]

Why Tom was jumping on Oprah’s couch – the Love drug that makes you Crazy!

Most people will remember with some cringing embarrassment the scene where Tom Cruise newly smitten with Katie Holmes was jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNrB6qpmNwg] Cynics claim a Hollywood beat-up noting how out of character it seemed for the normally super-controlled Cruise. In fact there may be a simpler explanation – Cruise was […]