The movie about a couple of friends trying to keep love out of a sexual relationship costars Ashton Kutcher and it has gotten mediocre reviews earning a 51 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The very existence of the gods was inseparable from that of a storm, a sea, a river, or from those powerful human emotions love, rage or sexual passion that seemed momentarily to lift men and women onto a different plane of existence so that they saw the world with new eyes.

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The underlying question posed by Mr Sollers is how you can be happy, reconciling physical love with passion, when sexual disappointment, sadness and cultural poverty are so common.

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"He really was a soldier for social justice, and it didn't matter to him your race, creed, color, level of ability, sexual orientation -- he had a heart big enough to love and accept all, " she said.

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With Paolo Bonacelli as a priest who urges the assassin to take God into his heart, and the beautiful Violante Placido as a prostitute who falls in love with the assassin after he performs an act of sexual gallantry that no man experienced with prostitutes would likely perform.

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People spread rumours about him, even twice accused him of sexual abuse, but he was never proved guilty of anything: except love, and desire for lost childhood, and a longing to be Peter Pan.

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One is the networking--nearly always, nearly all the time and aided by very clever Macromedia (nasdaq: MACR - news - people ) software that figures out who in the room closest matches your love of wine, your passion for rock climbing and your sexual proclivity (or whatever).

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Read in this spirit, large chunks of the Old Testament the territorial feuds, the constant threat of exile or extinction, the sexual jealousy and sibling rivalry begin to resemble the handbook for a grim new scarcity economy of land and love.

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