"They were going to get rid of Catherine from the love triangle and then they were going to make money out of it at the same time, " Mr Smith said.

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Courtney Thorne-Smith, formerly "Allison" on nighttime soap "Melrose Place, " finds herself caught in the middle of a love triangle as Billy's wife, and Ally's subsequent friend.

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The film would have been seen more as the story of a murderous love triangle set in Saigon in the early 1950s in which Caine, playing opposite Brendan Fraser, artfully portrays a weary British foreign correspondent.

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Fierstein, also represented on Broadway right now with the book for "Newsies, " spins his typical theatrical magic, teasing out from the movie both a love triangle and the pull-push of fathers and sons.

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"A Royal Affair" is a tale of love and intrigue centered on a triangle involving an ailing Danish king, his queen and the monarch's forward-thinking physician, played by former Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen.

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Example: South African crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli was arrested in late March, after he was accused of murder in a twelve-year-old love triangle case.

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And the third is a longtime favorite of mine, the first murder case I ever covered, Texas Love Triangle Murder, set in the Big Thicket.

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The new season of Friends kicked off last month in the US by teasing viewers over the love triangle between Ross, Rachel and Joey.

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