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ONCE LOVERS, NOW JUST FRIENDS

Reveling in the ex factor

It's messy to have to relate; it's neat to have once related. Just ask Jerry Seinfeld and his TV ex-girlfriend, Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who get to joke about sex on Seinfeld without having to actually have sex anymore. Ask Juliette Lewis and the ex-love-of-her-life, Brad Pitt, with whom she is now amicably promoting their August film, Kalifornia. Ask Woody Allen, who cast friendly ex-flame Diane Keaton in the role vacated by unfriendly ex-flame Mia Farrow in his next film, Manhattan Murder Mystery. As Allen might say in this case, the part wants what it wants.

Originally posted Jun 25, 1993 Published in issue #176-177 Jun 25, 1993 Order article reprints

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