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Why architects are often leading men (and women) in the movies

Why are so many love interests in romantic comedy or romance movies architects? NPR finds out from an Architectural Digest writer.

Well, Charlotte Collins tackles this burning question in a piece for Architectural Digest headlined, "Why Is The Love Interest Always An Architect?" But if you think of an example, there is Michelle Pfeiffer in the rom-com "One Fine Day," and she's a mother depicted as, like, kind of harried, frenzied, running around trying to take care of it all - trying to have it all, so to speak. (SOUNDBITE OF LONNIE LISTON SMITH, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD SONG, "LOVE CAN BE")

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