Another Celebrity OW/YM couple

I knew I always liked Mira Sorvino... :)

SUMMER BRIDE

OSCAR-winner Mira Sorvino, 36, is engaged to actor Chris Backus, 22, and the two plan to wed in Southern California this summer. "They're very in love and so happy," the groom's mother, Terry, told Us Weekly. The couple met last spring when Backus, then waiting tables, took Sorvino's dinner order at Sur Restaurant & Grill in West Hollywood. Giorgio Armani is said to be designing Sorvino's dress, which will be "opened up," Us reports, because she's pregnant - a claim Sorvino's rep (who confirmed the wedding) denies.

...you start seeing it everywhere.

I haven't heard anything else about this new movie yet,
but written by the author of "My Beautiful Laundrette".

QUESTIONS FOR HANIF KUREISHI
Making a Movie Sexy
Interview by LYNN HIRSCHBERG

''The Mother,'' the latest movie you've written, tells the story of a 60-something woman who has an affair with a 30-something man, who happens to be sleeping with her daughter. Were you trying to be shocking or, perhaps, romantic?

Some of both, probably. A while ago, I was at a restaurant with my mother, and she fancied the waiter's hands. She said to me, ''I worry that I will never be touched again, except by the undertaker.'' I kept thinking about that, how, as you get older, age and time become more and more interesting. The idea for ''The Mother'' involves sex of a scandalous nature, and I realized that would be a good starting point. But it was the undressing of her dignity that moved me.

Most of your work has used sex as a point of departure. In the film ''Intimacy,'' which was based on two of your short stories, a couple meet weekly for anonymous sex; in your novel, ''The Body,'' a man trades his aging vessel for that of an Adonis; and so on.

I'm very excited by people liking each other, really falling for each other. Sex is a metaphor for me: it's a good way of meeting other people. Sex can speed up any relationship. In my work, the characters have reached the point when they hopefully meet the wrong person. It changes your life when you meet someone completely wrong.

It's rare to find sex in the movies actually sexy. Do you find it compelling?

When I was a young man, there was no sex in movies. You had to see ''Last Tango in Paris'' to see sex, and it was thrilling and confusing and psychological. Now, of course, there's too much sex. What I'm interested in is minds. With sex, you are vulnerable and crazed and disrupted. That is interesting, and you can't get that in porno films. And it's always wonderful to see people kissing. A kiss remains intimate in the movies.

Oh, I've always liked Mira Sorvino! Yay!

http://cache.eonline.com/News/Photos/b/bakcus.sorvino.052604.jpg

And what a beautiful couple they are. Apparently, they've been together for a year now. Best wishes to them. :)

Chelle, what a coincidence! I just finished reading "The Buddha of Suburbia" by Hanif Kureishi. Very cool. I also saw "My Beautiful Laundrette". "The Mother" sounds great. I am really looking forward to reading more books and seeing more movies by him. I found this site you might want to check out:

http://www.hanifkureishi.com/

He is so goodlooking!

My gosh, is she really 36??? I thought her to be much younger...she looks great!

She certainly doesn't look 36 and hes a HOTTIE!!!!

Joi

I hadn't seen a picture of Mira with her fiancee...
Are his eyes for real?? Really, those have to be
contacts. They do make a mighty attractive
couple though.