Fiction imitates reality. Or other way around?

   Is Tucci the Right Man?

In A Modern Affair a professional woman played by Lisa Eichhorn hears her biological clock ticking. She decides to resort to a sperm bank as she has not found Mr. Right. Becomes obsessed with the donor. Meets the donor. A very charming Stanley Tucci who is unaware that the woman he just met ... is carrying his baby!

http://amodernaffair.com/

Here's another plot. A woman finds her self in the same situation, in Boston. She acquires a sperm sample and makes an appointment for insemination. But she meets a very charming man BEFORE she  has time to use the sample. Sample 8282. She passes the sperm sample to a woman who's also single and desperate for a baby. She in turn immediately meets a man and finds herself without the need of the donated sperm. 8282, clearly a lucky number. She passes it on to the next woman in line. Who, you've guessed it, also meets a man. A bit contrived of a plot, isn't it? Except that it all happened in real life, as told in the book Three Wishes.

http://threewishesbook.ning.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/fashion/23sperm.html?8dpc

Modern methods of procreation, as well as the unusual ways of meeting a partner they can lead to, were topical when A Modern Affair was made. And still are today. Witness the flurry of movies on the subject being produced this year. We mentioned The Backup Plan. Next one out will be The Switch - formerly knows as The Baster (don't ask)(trust me). This time the sample from the donors gets switched around. Hence the title. Obviously.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/19/the-switch-movie-trailer-an-artificial-insemination-romantic-comedy/