Celebrities Galore Caught Up In A Virtual Web Of Romance
Soon-Yi Previn and Leon Trotsky? Not quite, but amazingly enough there’s a direct line of lovers between the two and a new Internet game that challenges users to find it.
Every day at 3 p.m. Pacific time the Mr. Showbiz site, based in Bellevue, Wash., throws out a seemingly impossible task - find the shortest romantic path between two wildly disparate people. The first person to post the decisive links wins a T-shirt.
The site gives users a list of more than 350 featured personalities, each displayed with his or her photographic romantic resume and a short biography.
Thus we find that Ali McGraw reputedly once spent a “pseudo-sexual’ evening with surrealist artist Salvador Dali during which he sucked on her toes and later marked the occasion by sending her a flower box containing a live iguana.
The fine print, under the rubric “What Kind of Sickos Are You, Anyway?” notes that for the purposes of the site, the term ‘romantically linked’ has been granted all its peculiar sweep and scope, as much by logical necessity as by the inability to have a verifying official present in every celebrity boudoir.
Further down, the obligatory lawyer’s note reminds users that Romantically Linked does not imply in any way that the given relationships actually occurred, but simply that they have been reported.
And Soon-Yi and Leon? Take a deep breath, it goes like this - Trotsky to Frida Kahlo to Paulette Goddard to Burgess Meredith to Marlene Dietrich to Frank Sinatra to Mia Farrow to Woody Allen and, finally, to Previn.
xxxx TO PLAY The Romantically Linked game can be found on the Mr. Showbiz site at http://www.mrshowbiz.com