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An exposé in a newspaper revealed that he was the beau of a svelte coquette he had met aprés-ski and she gave him the coup de grâce by poisoning his créme caramel in a crime passionnel.
Among those the tabs say are eager to walk down the aisle are Demi Moore and new beau Oliver Whitcomb, Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin, Heather Graham and Ed Burns, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, Mariah Carey and Luis Miguel, Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Yet another adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel produced by Barry Sonnenfeld ( Get Shorty , Out of Sight ). This one centers on a power-hungry rural judge (Beau Bridges) who happily doles out lengthy sentences--a "redneck Judge Judy" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics call it the next Twin Peaks , citing its twisting plot lines, eccentric characters, and black humor.
When my sister's husband heard this tale, he speculated that the old beau's toilet seat played the same tune when he lifted it.
First, of course, came Frank Sinatra, his death the beau ideal of an on-time departure, given his image's pendulum swing over the last three decades from ultracool to camp to ultracool once more.