Love in the Time of Cholera (film) the film, showed an unreleased final edition of the film to Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico who at the end of the film is said to have exclaimed "Bravo!" with a smile on his face. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though beautifully filmed, the makers of "Love in the Time of Cholera" fail to transfer the novel's magic to the screen." On Metacritic, the film had an
The Love Machine (novel) The Love Machine (novel) The Love Machine is the second novel by Jacqueline Susann, the follow-up to her enormously successful "Valley of the Dolls" (1966). Published by Simon & Schuster in 1969, the book was a "New York Times" #1 best seller. "The Love Machine" tells the story of ruthless, haunted Robin Stone and his life and career in the cut-throat world of 1960s network television. Handsome but promiscuous, the latter earning his nickname the Love Machine after he describes television with the same sobriquet, Robin is loved beyond all reason by three women: Amanda, the beautiful but doomed fashion