>>734 thank you!

>>735 I had forgotten about Wimbledon. Good point.

As to whether he would go with a girl who dumped her finace, I think the fling happened as part and parcel of his well documented method intensity about the project. Most people want to create a story around their own lives which they can buy into, and for him I wonder if it was going to be "intense [Oscar winning] role during which we realised that we were one another's one true love." The characters I believe had an entangled relationship too and so the complicated aspect of their own entanglement becomes almost part of the roles they play.

But that story ceases to sound so great when it starts from "well meaning dud that Hank and my fans didn't much like which didn't get picked up by any festivals and garnered no Oscar nominations as everyone preferred Miles Ahead." That doesn't lead on so neatly to the fairytale ending. I know that shouldn't rationally make any difference to how he sees the relationship now - either they like each other and want to be together or they don't - but human nature being what it is, I imagine it may. And so he's back to real life where he made an ok but not earth-shattering movie, and she was an on set fling who dumped her finance to be with him and is now telling him via the press she wants to have his little babies. I doubt he has given it up completely yet (and he may still be hoping for the fairytale ending where they walk the red carpet together as lovers and Oscar nominees) but I don't sense much enthusiasm at the moment and that may not be entirely unrelated to the current slightly languishing fate of ISTL itself.