

Gavin implies his own parents' decade-long marriage was also pretty bad.Once they get divorced, things really start going to hell. The Rose couple's marriage already became passionless and boring.Oliver constantly loses the fight because he simply can't let go of Barbara, who not only can't stand him anymore but can more easily manipulate him. The least harmful way is for the parties to part ways as quickly and cleanly as possible. Divorce proceedings may try to remain civilized, but can quickly devolve into acrimony, greed, and even physical violence.Oliver may act amoral or immoral at times, but not while engaging in his legal career.Amoral Attorney: Gavin is an aversion, actively trying to steer both Oliver and Barbara from doing anything stupid or unethical (such as when he rather pointedly sets up a recorder when Barbara tries to seduce him to make it clear sure it couldn't be said he'd done anything untoward).Part of it is that the lawyer has knowledge to events he couldn't possibly have known. All Just a Dream: Implied that the entire story is fake, one that a lawyer tells to convince a client not to divorce his wife.The title is a Shout-Out to the English war between the noble houses Lancaster and York. Brooks and directed by (and co-starring) Danny DeVito, about an escalating war over marital assets between wealthy, divorcing spouses Oliver and Barbara Rose ( Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) that gets taken to a ridiculous and tragicomic extreme. In this first episode of our two-part series, we’re joined by Curator of Collections and Interiors Dickon Whitewood to discuss what the Wars of the Roses were, how they started and the early battles that ended with Yorkist triumph.Based on a 1981 novel by Warren Adler, The War of the Roses is a (pitch) Black Comedy from 1989, produced by James L. The series of conflicts – which took place between 14 – spanned multiple different reigns, involved numerous foreign kingdoms, and heralded changes in English politics, social order and battlefield technology. The Wars of the Roses, fought between the two powerful houses of York and Lancaster, pitted families against each other. Less than 100 years after the Black Death, England was again uprooted by dramatic upheaval.
