Bah. He and she value very different things, and value them by different scales, as well. Atop that, beauty is a deteriorating asset -- perhaps less so than in the past, but it still fades over time -- whereas earning power and a responsible character are very durable. If the trade were made explicit, rather than papered over with romantic fiction, he'd clearly be trading a lifetime promise of sustenance and fidelity -- bequeathed both to his wife and any children she might bear by him -- for a few years of proximity to a superficial sexual attraction.

Let's hope and pray there's more to the match than those elements alone.

Hillary smiled coyly thinking about how Bill resurrected Bosnia after it had quietly faded away. Now she was going to have the entire Steelers' offensive line to take that damn loose cannon down once and for all.

Granted the real Lovett is not finding difficulty attracting women (or men), it still must be of some shame to him to note that a great many people in America automatically thought of his marriage with Roberts as emblematic of the homely man-beautiful women coupling.

Probably just a chuckle. A year or so after his divorce from Roberts, he wrote "That's Right (You're Not From Texas)" which featured this lyric:

See I was born and raised in Texas
And it means so much to me
Though my girl comes from down in Georgia
We were up in Tennessee

And as we were driving down the highway
She asked me baby what's so great
How come you're always going on
About your Lone Star State

I said that's right you're not from Texas
That's right you're not from Texas
That's right you're not from Texas
But Texas wants you anyway

That's right you're not from Texas
That's right you're not from Texas
That's right you're not from Texas
But Texas wants you anyway

Oh the road it looked so lovely
As she stood there on the side
And she grew smaller in my mirror
As I watched her wave goodbye

After thinking about it for a moment, had I written on this topic, I would have chosen to use the same picture.

Granted the real Lovett is not finding difficulty attracting women (or men), it still must be of some shame to him to note that a great many people in America automatically thought of his marriage with Roberts as emblematic of the homely man-beautiful women coupling.

Now I just have to wait for the ladies to line up.

your picture seems to argue against your theory, given that they're not married anymore, if memory serves.

Heh. Well, incredibly rich, famous people aren't useful illustrations of much of anything. While a woman who looked like Julia Roberts may have been outside the league of a normal dude who looked like Lyle Lovett, the actual Lyle Lovett presumably wasn't having difficulty attracting the ladies.

(chuckle)