A more somber gay love story is at the heart of Grease director Randal Kleiser's highly personal comedy-drama It's My Party (March), in which one of the many threads running through a two-day farewell celebration thrown by Eric Roberts, playing a man dying of AIDS, is whether he will reconcile with his ex-lover, Gregory Harrison. Says Roberts, enjoying one of his first sympathetic parts since Star 80 turned him into a perennial screen heavy, ''It's not such a big deal to kiss a man. So what? Everybody has to want us to kiss, to be together, so I had to fall in love [with Harrison] — he's a great guy.''

Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), another actor often cast as a tough guy, also feels the pull of romance in Captives (May) — though the film is hardly a frothy love story. He's a man imprisoned for killing his wife; Julia Ormond is the divorced dentist who comes to work in the London prison where he's incarcerated. ''It's an impossible relationship,'' says Roth, who admits he loathed the location: ''Waking up in the morning and going off to work in a prison is pretty depressing.''

Romantics may be disappointed that most of this spring's loving movie couples don't walk off into the sunset together. But as Hollywood proved years ago, love means almost always having to say you're sorry.

Originally posted Feb 23, 1996 Published in issue #315-316 Feb 23, 1996 Order article reprints
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