http://news.bostonherald.com/blogs/entertainment/hollywood_mine/?p=263&srvc=home&position=recentAn intriguing excerpt from this in-depth article about how the love lives of actors affects the public reception of their work:
"Perhaps it was inevitable that this union which had produced two children was doomed with Witherspoon’s ascent to the A list and a booming career while Philippe’s once promising career withered into obscurity. As Eva Marie Saint, long wed to a director, once remarked to me, “It’s not easy with two actors when the phone’s ringing for only one.”
But it wasn’t a stalled career that ended the marriage but Abbie Cornish, the beautiful, young, very sexy Australian ingénue whose on-set romance prompted Witherspoon to call it quits.
While the tabloids buzzed as Cornish’s Aussie heroin drama with Heath Ledger “Candy” opened in theaters, the American moviegoing public was indifferent. “Candy” quickly disappeared and the release of “Stop Loss” was postponed untiil March 28. But obviously that romantic history has become a deadweight for selling the movie. "