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It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.
Even the clergy are easy: Wayward Catholics are welcomed on the home page of the White Robed Monks of St. Benedict, who "recognize that Jesus never really said No to anyone."
Wilderness programs for wayward kids are the latest frontier of the therapy industry, according to a NYT front-pager.
All these Scorsese types are in there pitching, doing their damnedest to legitimize the movie and its wayward star.
I can't be sure what Everett's languid, bare-chested Oberon is up to--posing for a Calvin Klein ad, maybe--and his relationship to Tucci's jaded, aging frat-boy Puck is that of a prissy gamekeeper to a wayward Alvin the Chipmunk.