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	June 17, 2003

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...BUT WILL IT LAST?
Actress KATE WINSLET (Titanic, Iris) and director SAM MENDES (Road to Perdition) were married at a private ceremony in the West Indies.

PRO:
• Mendes' notoriously dark world view will create low marital expectations.
• She's already had her show-biz starter-marriage, to director James Threapleton.
• Judging by her movies, Winslet likes acting out roles when naked.

CON:
• American Beauty, Mendes' first film, was not exactly an advertisement for matrimony.
• Mendes' ex-girlfriend Calista Flockhart would make anybody feel fat.
• Judging by her movies, Winslet likes acting out roles when naked.

PREDICTION:
At the very least, they'll make better movies than Guy Ritchie and Madonna.

— Lev Grossman


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FROM THE JUNE 23, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED JUNE 17, 2003