Chantry has a boyfriend, which makes things tricky, although that's not as much of an obstacle as Wallace's general rubbishness with the opposite sex, something that threatens to leave him languishing in the "friend zone".
On Redemption, a return to Toronto provides an opportunity to bitterly protest that a girl he used to fancy now has a boyfriend – which seems a bit rich given the non-stop display of Olympic-standard sexual athletics that apparently constitutes his own love life – and to complain about the various friends that have let him down: "This year for Christmas I just want apologies".
My Spirit Guide "told" me to break up with a boyfriend, which I did.
Nor does her apparent desperation to find a boyfriend, which in the pilot leads to a sour turn on an old "Mary Tyler Moore" episode that reflects well on no one.
One of Davies' older sisters had a "yank boyfriend", which was just about the greatest thing anyone could have at the time.
Wolitzer, who primarily writes books for adults, said she once uncovered a heart-shaped necklace given to her by a high school boyfriend, which made her feel "so sad and happy all at once".
But, in my spare time I'm usually renovating a house that I own with my boyfriend, which is a good counterbalance to sitting at a computer all day.
The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was also back in competition, for the fifth time, with "Like Someone in Love," a genial if unmemorable tale shot in Japan about an old man, a call girl and her boyfriend, which failed to win anything.
We are a team of four here after I travelled to Rome only with my boyfriend, which was a little bit different.
His very first story, in 2003, about an especially awkward love triangle, became his one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, which enjoyed a successful run at the Soho Theatre in London; a later story, about a bizarre sleep disorder that at one point caused him to jump out of a motel window, was recently turned into a film, Sleepwalk With Me, in which he starred and directed.
"I've got a nice boyfriend," she added, which was another lie, or a half lie particularly that word "boyfriend," which she would never normally have used about the man she saw sometimes, a musician who was thoroughly wrapped up in his own work.
