And the plot of romantic agony involves a peculiarly sad affair, in which the fraudster's great love arises from a work relationship a sham of the sort of working romances that arise in films by Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, and, yes, Wes Anderson.
She spent about 10 years working on romance novels, but one day she tearfully burned what she had written after receiving nothing but rejections.
In old songs and new ones, she sings about work, romance, struggles, sorrows and dignity.
Here are five rules I have for those embarking on a work romance.
Mr. Isserlis and Mr. Adès gave a scintillating, unsentimental performance of Poulenc's Sonata for Cello and Piano and searching accounts of grimly beautiful Liszt works, "Romance Oubliée" and "La Lugubre Gondola," which show Liszt in his most harmonically radical vein.
She took all the stuff that chick-lit novels are about — sex, work, romance and the vagaries of being an intelligent woman in the modern world — and pushed them all out of the way.
There is a suspicion that "The Tree of Life" could be — or should be, or really is — a touching coming-of-age story, and a similar sense that "The Future," at bottom, is really just another funny-sad indie movie about a young couple navigating the conflicting demands of work, romance and the desire to be cool.
The Friday's chain is known for its chicken wings and nachos, its cheesy air of after-work romance: the sort of place where you might expect to find some office hanky-panky, but not — as the authorities allege — a bustling bar-side business in marijuana and cocaine.
And while it doesn't reference the "Poke" feature in creative ways like some other videos we've covered, the song is actually called "Facebook" and un-ironically revolves around a flirtatious work romance taking place on the social network.
Every character has become lovable -- who can resist Morgan and Tamra's unexpected-but-it-totally-works romance?
