He stole Meg Ryan from her husband and then dumped her, and got the reputation of a bad boy. Steve Martin, in tweaking Crowe about his womanizing, tried to give marriage equal time. From his comedy pulpit at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards Sunday, he noted that Tom Hanks, twice best actor, had one of the best and longest marriages in Tinseltown. If that's not equal time, at least it's time. But marriage doesn't have much voice in movies these days.
Action is more important than romance.
Epic plays bigger than intimacy. Marriage doesn't sell, and cynicism abounds on and off the screen. The latest volume, unfortunately, coincides with the announcement that one of its two authors is getting a divorce. Women should be all that men fantasize them to be, which requires them to act aggressively passive and to fake subservience. She always put the needs of her husband first.