"Nah," he says, sounding rather wistful, despite his evidently devoted marriage to wife No 3, Penny Lancaster-Stewart.
Movies devoted to marriage and family (I'm leaving out the Steve Martin and Tim Allen family comedies) have to be absolutely right in texture and nuance, the way "Shoot the Moon" was, twenty-two yeago agor or they fall into a nagging banality.
Instead, there are ordinary men in their 50's, fat and skinny, comical and tragic, divorced in bitterness, devoted in marriage, Harvard-trained in psychology and homeless in the Port Authority bus terminal.
Watching the escalation of the gay rights movement is exciting and I hope that some of the energy being devoted to marriage marches and rallys can be directed at providing for the least of us in our community.
So I keep people blindfolded for much of the work, which is devoted to the marriages of taste".
The book finds programs devoted to "Smart Marriages" and "Divorce Busting," not to mention greeting cards for the cheating spouse who hasn't yet been caught.
"There may be a kind of harmonic convergence going on," said Larry Hackett, the managing editor of People magazine, which has put celebrity breakups on 12 of its covers this year, compared with 5 covers devoted to celebrity marriages.
The strong extras include two more shorts devoted to quickie marriages, including a Three Stooges entry, audio commentary by historians Ken Gordon and Bruce Lawton and more.
A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem.
It becomes even more tangled in investigating fundamentalist sects and splinter groups devoted to plural marriage as a holy principle and to the abundance of dangerous self-proclaimed prophets like Dan and Ron Lafferty.
