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post #1 of 21
1/11/08 at 3:36am
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Help me think of examples of May/December relationships in books and movies, please!

My Fair Lady- Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins.
Jane Eyre- Jane and Mr Rochester

There are so many, many more, but I can't think of any right now!
post #2 of 21
1/11/08 at 4:15am
yeaaahh, all i can think of is snape-hermione fanfictions, which is soooooo not helpful, sorry!! :
post #3 of 21
1/11/08 at 11:23am
Snape/Herm...What????? :0

Laurie King has written some books about Sherlock Holmes marrying his neighbor/protege who is like 50 years his junior or something.

Music and Lyrics...Hugh Grant was about 50 and Drew Barrymore was about 30

This is TV, but:Northern Exposure--Holling and Shelly
post #4 of 21
1/11/08 at 11:48am
Harold and Maude! One of my favorite flicks. Harold is 19 and Maude is 79.
post #5 of 21
1/11/08 at 1:19pm
Lost in Translation.
post #6 of 21
1/11/08 at 1:55pm
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Snape/Herm...What????? :0
[giggles adolescently] I wasn't going to mention that one. But, yeah.

Lost In Translation, Harold and Maude, Music and Lyrics (reminded me to put it in my queue), Northern Exposure!

Excellent, I hope people will add more.....

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Laurie King has written some books about Sherlock Holmes marrying his neighbor/protege who is like 50 years his junior or something.
Thanks for the tip! I looked her up. The first in the series is The Beekeepers Apprentice I'll put it on my list of possible reads.
post #7 of 21
1/11/08 at 2:04pm
Marianne Ashwood/Christopher Brandon in Sense & Sensibility.
post #8 of 21
1/11/08 at 2:10pm
As Good as it Gets

That other film with Jack Nicholson where Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves' characters date for awhile. Can't remember the name.

Frida

The Graduate (of course)

Indecent Proposal
post #9 of 21
1/11/08 at 2:12pm
Little Women - Jo and her professor
post #10 of 21
1/11/08 at 2:15pm
Sabrina
post #11 of 21
1/11/08 at 2:54pm
Thread Starter 
Lupin and Tonks, HP and the Deathly Hallows

Can't believe I didn't remember Marianne and Colonel Brandon. I'm reading S & S currently.

Jo and her professor! For ages after I read that my dream husband was a professor, several years older than me, in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches. Seriously.
post #12 of 21
1/11/08 at 3:16pm
Fawn and Dag in Lois McMaster Bujold's latest two fantasy books (The Sharing Knife: Beguilement and Legacy).
post #13 of 21
1/11/08 at 5:46pm
About a trillion -- male writers in particular loooooove this theme!

Venus (the recent Peter O'Toole film)
Cheri and Gigi, Colette (and the two switch who is May and who is December)
Lolita may be beyond what you're thinking of ...
Memoir from an Antproof Case, Mark Helprin
Last Tango in Paris
A Perfect Murder
Dostoevsky's A Gentle Creature
Atlantic City
Shopgirl
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Four Seasons
post #14 of 21
1/11/08 at 6:28pm
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Venus (the recent Peter O'Toole film)
Bf and I loved this movie so much. Peter O'Toole was so wonderful and the movie was so heartbreaking for so many reasons.
post #15 of 21
1/11/08 at 7:00pm
I love Gary Cooper - I liked Love in the Afternoon (1957) with him and IIRC Hepburn.

Aragorn and Arwen are a reverse May/December (LOTR) of course. Since she was immortal and centuries old, and he was slightly less than 100.
post #16 of 21
1/11/08 at 8:49pm
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Aragorn and Arwen are a reverse May/December (LOTR) of course. Since she was immortal and centuries old, and he was slightly less than 100.
post #17 of 21
1/11/08 at 8:52pm
Oh, if we're going to include Aragorn and Arwen, we need Buffy and Angel! Or Buffy and her "cradle-robbing creature of the night boyfriend," as she puts it.
post #18 of 21
1/12/08 at 2:35pm
I think there was actually a British show called "May December" or something. But I'm getting it mixed up with As Time Goes By since the daughter from that show was the wife in the May/December show.
post #19 of 21
1/15/08 at 1:29pm
There's the one in the Canterbury Tales - but I can't remember which tale it's in!
post #20 of 21
1/15/08 at 1:49pm
"How Stella Got Her Groove Back" (I think Stella was mid 40s and Winston was early 20s)

"Gone With the Wind" (IIRC, Scarlett was around 16 and Rhett mid 30s when they first met)

"Pretty Woman" (I'm not sure they state their ages, but Vivien looks early 20s to me there and Richard Gere looked mid 40s)
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