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Article: The Fallout From `Fatal Attraction'
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- The Washington Post
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- October 16, 1987
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Forget Bork. Forget Casey's Confession. The hottest debate in
Washington these days is over "Fatal Attraction," the Michael
Douglas-Glenn Close film that explores the chilling consequences of
an extramarital affair gone amok. It's "Brief Encounter" remade by
Alfred Hitchcock.
The box-office boffo movie, which explores the sexual politics
of a one-night stand and the tragic consequences when an emotionally
unstable woman won't take "Let's do lunch someday" for an answer, has
become something of a phenomenon among single and married people
alike.
"People haven't stopped talking about it," says Washington
divorce lawyer Glenn Lewis. "In my office. At the courthouse. I
think it's right up ...