Correction
Due to a reporting error, the Nov. 11 article "Law survives 'Alfie' wreck" states that Jude Law was married to Mary-Louise Parker.
It was UNC alumnus Billy Crudup who actually was married to Parker.
Oh, Alfie. He's incredibly gorgeous, charming, gorgeous, smooth and - oh yeah - gorgeous.
Jude Law stars as the raunchy heartbreaker in this remake of the 1966 "Alfie," but by the end of the film, it becomes apparent that gorgeous just doesn't cut it anymore.
The movie follows the ultimate playboy Alfie, a Brit-turned-struggling-Manhattanite, working for a limo company and sexin' up the women of NYC.
This updated version is another failed case of Hollywood directors and screenwriters trying to put a modern spin on an old movie.
Come on, Tinseltown. When will you learn enough is enough already?
The audience gets to watch Alfie be a male whore for an hour and forty minutes, having sex with the token single mother, (Marisa Tomei), and his best friend's girlfriend (Nia Long).
And of course he has a go with Sienna Miller and Susan Sarandon just to keep things interesting.
The idea behind "Alfie" is that he is just so incredibly irresistible and wonderful that he has to be careful who he lets get attached to him. It's a classic tale of the boy who could have it all but just can never commit, throwing away his women like they're last week's lunch.
