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Now he has written and co-stars in the new musical "A Catered Affair," based on the 1956 movie, about a Bronx family planning a wedding.

It was apparent that Clemens's bash was not a burgers-in-the-backyard affair, based on the elaborate design and professional appearance of the invitations.

From Friday, Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper, should pull adult males, although it's an altogether more serious affair, based on the memoir of an Iraq war combatant.

The next couple of attempts, Sidney Lumet's 1966 "Deadly Affair" (based on the novel "Call for the Dead") and Frank R. Pierson's "Looking Glass War" (1969), were largely bungled operations, though "Deadly Affair" benefits from the casting of James Mason as a version of Mr. le Carré's most famous character, the mild-mannered and deceptively wily spymaster George Smiley.

BBC1's recent Saturday night offering The Magicians might have been a bit of a hit-and-miss affair, based on the questionable idea that audiences would rather see the likes of Samantha Womack or Peter Jones from Dragons' Den performing tricks rather than professional conjurors.

It would be nice to think that there will come a day when the human race can run its affairs based on shared values of reason, decency, tolerance, empathy, respect and hope without the added baggage of religions or mythologies to justify or enforce them.

It was on mixed vegetable stews, free-form affairs based on what you have on hand and what you feel like cooking, or as Olney so much more eloquently put it, their composition "depends on the season and on whim and, insofar as they are never twice identical, one must, each time, more or less 'feel' one's way through the preparation".

Clearly, it's a family affair, based on this grandma-to-be's amazing reaction to her daughter's clever pregnancy announcement.

Proof of this is Neil Jordan's acclaimed The End Of The Affair, based on Graham Greene's novel, which tells a story of infidelity and sexual intrigue in war-torn London.

This is the story of a love affair based on sadomasochistic role-play, with the choreography of sub and dom and the traditional paradox about who is really in charge.

The bank faces criminal proceedings and is a defendant in several civil lawsuits in America over Executive Life.This week, Le Nouvel Observateur, a French magazine, reported new details about the affair, based on testimony from Dominique Bazy, formerly Mr Peyrelevade's right-hand man.