La Bohème is NOT based on Camille.

La Boh is about a bunch of poor artists struggling to survive. The lady who eventually dies of TB is Mimi, a seamstress. The subplot is about Musetta, who sells herself for money but loves one of the poor artists.

La Dame Aux Caméllias a.k.a. La Traviata is about a wealthy and successful courtesan who is dying of TB. She falls in love with the successful bourgeois Alfred; when Alfred's father visits her and threatens to disown him, Camille leaves her lover and returns to her life of pleasure. She dies of TB in Alfred's arms.

The major things the two have in common are sex and TB. Oh, and arias.

And the feminine singular definite article.

I was just surfing reviews over at Rotten Tomatoes. My current favorite is a review of Sideways: "I didn't like it, and then I did like it."

Oh those tragically spitting-up-blood heroines! (Okay, that is what delicate coughs into hankies are for.)

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down was rated X probably because, as the title indicates, the rampant sex was of the slightly S/M, and possible-to-interpret-as-slightly-non-con, variety. Also, involving drug use.

I like to think that Almodovar is gravitating back towards his roots, which if you've ever seen Law of Desire, is basically gay soap opera, with occasional violence. Alas that he no longer has Antonio Banderas to strip naked for the camera.

I like to think that Almodovar is gravitating back towards his roots

Does this mean we'll be seeing junkie nuns again?

Gael Garcia Bernal in graphic sex scenes--Ooh Lordy, even if I wasn't a huge Almodovar fan, I would so be there.

Why is this happening?

I saw the preview of it with National Treasure.

Now I must poke my eyeballs out.

There are no words.

But while drop zones, demolitions and destroying enemy targets come naturally to Shane, he has no idea what tough really is until he pits his courage against diapering, den-mothering and driver's education. He's truly a SEAL out of water, and now it's up to this one-time lone warrior to take on the most important mission of his life: keeping a family together.

t cries

Is Mark Burnette behind it? It sounds like the big-screen version of "Commando Nanny".

Re. consumptive opera/literary heroines. I'm fairly sure there are more of those than Camille & Mimi, but my brain is like a sieve this morning and I can't think of any.