Yidio Question of the (Valentine's) Day: Bogart and Bacall, Hepburn and Tracy - does this generation lack a defining romance?

With celebrity splits happening left and right, it seems no one in Hollywood can stay in a relationship nowadays. Back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, movie star romances were almost a staple of the celebrity world, and America ate it up. That brings us to our Yidio Question of the (Valentine's) Day.

Bogart and Bacall, Hepburn and Tracy - does this generation lack a defining romance?

Yes:

There are almost no tales of Hollywood love in the news anymore. Tabloids and the paparazzi have taken over, and now the only headlines we care about are sensationalized ones about cheating, break-ups, and scandal. But it's not all the media's fault: celebrity couples just don't stay together anymore. Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson split, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman split (and TomKat is just weird), and the only people that care about Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are "Twilight" fans. Even Brangelina--Hollywood's biggest power couple and the closest thing we have to a defining romance--stemmed from a split between Brad and Jennifer Aniston. Where's the love?

No:

What about Annette Bening and Warren Beatty? The two are Hollywood royalty and have been married for almost 20 years! Sure, they're not front-and-center in the Hollywood spotlight, but both are timeless, famous, and very much in love. And sure, Brangelina got together out of a high-profile split between Brad and Jen, but doesn't that just help make the romance more intriguing? It doesn't have to be perfect: after all, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy never got married, they just spent 27 years as a couple, and even referred to each other as "friends". Even if the big romances don't last as long nowadays, they can still be "defining".

Judgement:

The problem doesn't lie with the celebrities on this one. The problem lies with us. Our attention span as a culture has dwindled to a point where if there isn't something scandalous going on with a couple, we don't care anymore. Brad and Angelina are the closest thing we have to a "defining romance", but when they're happy and getting along (and not adopting or having more children) then we're not interested. The times, they have a-changed. But who knows? Maybe sometime soon we'll get a couple with a story like Hepburn and Tracy's that you just can't ignore.

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