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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Romance Meets Life

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Couple Love - Thandie Newton Pregnant - Expecting Baby #3 with Husband Ol Parker

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 09:04 PM PDT


Thandie Newton was at the Toronto Film Festival with her husband, Ol Parker to attend the premiere of her upcoming film, Half Of A Yellow Sun. This is amidst reports confirmed by her manager to US Weekly that the actress is expecting her third child. Thandie Newton has been married to her writer-director husband, Ol Parker for 15 years, and they have two daughters. Congrats to them!

See all the pictures from the Half of a Yellow Sun Premiere, here.

HOAYS Movie - Chimamanda Adichie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Genevieve Nnaji,and More at the TIFF and an early Review

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 06:37 PM PDT


Nigeria is representing with the movie adaptation of  Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun at the on-going Toronto International Film Festival. Arriving at the red capet for the premiere was the author herself among most of the major actors including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Genevieve Nnaji, Onyeka Onwenu, Wale Ojo, and John Boyega. The producers of the movie led by Yewande Sadiku and Muhktar Bakare, as well as director Biyi Bandele were present also.

Enjoy the photos and an excerpt from an early review below...

(L-R) Actors John Boyega, Onyeka Onwenu, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Genevieve Nnaji, director Biyi Bandele, producer Andrea Calderwood, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, actor Wale Ojo, Helen Ogunbiyi, Labi Ogunbiyi, guest and executive producer Yewande Sadiku



















Here's a clip from Variety's review lauding Thandie Newton's performance as Olanna. I'm still seeing an Oscar nod :)

...it's Newton's Olanna who serves as our principal pair of eyes, her initially elevated social standing and dogged devotion to one dubiously deserving man making for a romantic riches-to-rags arc on which to hang her loved ones' struggles.

The film opens in 1960, with Nigeria celebrating its newfound freedom from British rule, and Olanna and Kainene, daughters of a wealthy Igbo businessman in Lagos, newly returned from university in England. Kainene enters the family business; Olanna, to her family's consternation, moves to Nsukka to live with Odenigbo, whom her sister snidely nicknames "the Revolutionary." There, she attracts the scorn of Odenigbo's traditionalist mother (Onyeka Onwenu); the tension between them symbolically foreshadows the class-clash faultlines creating social unrest throughout the country.

As clashes between the ruling Igbo class and the militant Hausa people first leave Lagos under military control and continue to flare up elsewhere, Olanna and Odenigbo are forced to flee Nsukka, heading eastwards to Biafra, the short-lived secessionist Igbo state founded in 1967. It won't be their last panicked relocation. Meanwhile, sundry personal betrayals and infidelities repeatedly recast Olanna's relationship both to her boyfriend and her sister.

Given its sheer amount of incident, this geographically restless story can hardly fail to engross even in attenuated form, particularly with Newton at the top of her game as Olanna, a woman whose unhidden intelligence is nonetheless often at war with her more impractical passions. The actress smartly makes Olanna work for her likeability over the course of the film; her best scenes come opposite the wonderful, similarly watchful Rose, both actresses convincingly etching the unspoken understanding that can make and break a sisterly relationship.

Photos by Jerod Harris/Getty Images

Dear Myne - Articles on RML are One-Sided, Aren't Women Sometimes to Blame in Relationships?

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 03:06 PM PDT


Hi Myne, I truly love your articles on your blog and i'm a great fan. But I'll like to fault you. You lead the young women aright but most (if not all) of your articles I read are women-focused which I think is one-sided. If I may ask... Don't women cheat on men? Don't women keep men waiting in terms of making marital decisions?


Just read your post on "When Will a Guy Initiate a Relationship?". Is it just only the guy that delays a relationship? Sometimes don't you think the guy will open up early enough but the girl will be checking her options as regards other offers from other men before she decides where to settle?

What if a guy proposes to a woman, and she turns it down? Or she accepts the ring and changes her mind months later and returns the ring just because she gets a better offer (or she thinks so). Or maybe she's just being influenced by richer friends, mother or (and) pastor in her church.

I don't mind if you publish these questions because I think by RML being more balanced it will also help single women who are gambling to decide on their future husbands because they have options, and most of them tend to choose by sight. Thanks so much.

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Response - RML is certainly women-focused, we aim to be progressive towards women-positive content. Sure, women cheat and sometimes fumble in relationships [See top 10 reasons women cheat] but RML believes that those decisions and mistakes are for the woman to own and grow from, rather than for us, or any one else [especially men] concluding women are stupidly "gambling" or choosing "by sight". Here on RML, we try to be less quick to judge.

And some men-focused content;

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/09/this-is-for-men-gerald-rogers-shares.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/09/bathing-baby-nigerian-fathers-who-are.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/08/happy-birthday-to-my-lovely-wife-wale.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/08/micheal-douglas-on-marriage-fatherhood.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/08/klint-da-drunk-and-wife-on-marriage.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/07/how-to-keep-your-wife-happy-10.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/05/dear-myne-how-do-i-teach-my-wife-how-to.html

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2012/09/25-life-tips-young-men-need-to-know.html

Yemi Sax and Wife Shotalayo Welcome Their Baby Boy

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT


Saxophonist Yemi Adeosun, known as Yemi Sax, and his wife Shotalayo welcomed a baby boy this morning, their first child together [see couple's wedding pictures]. The proud and happy father tweeted; "The happiest day of my life. Biggy Biggy bouncing baby boy for me. Thank u my wife and thank u the creator of heaven and earth." See more photos of the baby and proud dad below...

Couple Love - 2Face and Annie Idibia in Online PDA

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 12:16 PM PDT


@2FaceIdibia1 recently opened a new personal Instagram account and has been sharing some sweet and cute pictures of himself, and some of him with his wife Annie Macaulay Idibia. The couple were in South Africa for a few days but are now back in Nigeria. Enjoy some more of their online PDA below...

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Joselyn Dumas at the Muyiwa Goes to Nollywood Concert

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 10:15 AM PDT


Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Joselyn Dumas were special guests at a Nollywood themed concert in London last night. Omotola chatted with the host of the show and also performed one of her songs. These are some pictures from the event via syncphotosonline.com. Enjoy...
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