ON TWITTER
#MINDTHEAGEGAP
Playwright David Hare pointed out that screen romances between mature men and much younger women are the norm.
@mtc_london replied: “Do you not remember The Graduate. Many young men's dream for years afterwards, a dream that made them all ‘smarter’ in dealing with women's desires.”
@Liztray countered: “Quite amusing that everyone is naming this film but there are 874689586 examples of the opposite. One movie, that's all there is?”
@Lzandrig said: “I guess you don't watch that many films, but it has been done before. Harold and Maude from 1971 just one example.”
@glyniswozniak tweeted: “I don't understand why this is not portrayed more in the media. I am always chatted up by younger guys (57) and it can't just be me.”
@Gdsad said: “If only there were a grand consilient theory that might explain universal patterns of human preferences.”
@Bfraggles replied: “Shocking I know, it's almost as if it has nothing to do with evolutionary instincts about fertility/reproduction.”
#BROOKESHIELDS
A Castle For Christmas, filmed in Scotland, debuts on Netflix on 26 November. ‘A famed author (Brooke Shields, 56) travels to Scotland hoping to buy a small castle of her own, but the prickly owner (Cary Elwes, 58) is reluctant to sell.’
@guywalters wrote: “I wonder what will happen!”
@jennycolgan tweeted: “They have finally filmed my life story and capitalised on my oft-noted resemblance to Brooke Shields.”
@Lissakevans wrote: “I'm going to take a leap on this, and suggest that the Brooke Shields character murders the prickly owner with her shawl pin, is convicted, & ends up serving a life sentence in the Scottish prison which (HERE'S THE TWIST) has been converted from the very castle she wanted to buy.”
@fnackapan speculated: “I’m guessing they fall in love, get married in the stately house (it’s not a Ccastle, dear Americans, as it has no defensive walls) and Brooke Shields doesn’t have to get a mortgage! Bonus! Because he’s rich he can afford the UK spouse sponsorship visa!”
@Robin0133 asked: “Is this the John Lewis Xmas ad?”
@jimmyjazz1968 said: “Och Brooke Shields, ya canna buy me castle, ya wily temptress! Off with ye, lass!”