"Dates From Hell: The “Must Love Dogs” Ladies tell All!”
Jul 27, 2005

By: Lynn Barker

Whether you use internet dating, as Diane Lane’s character does in the new romantic comedy Must Love Dogs, zero in on someone across a crowded room, or get fixed up by friends or family, the search for that perfect someone can be heaven… or hell. Just ask actresses Diane Lane and Elizabeth Perkins who play sisters in the film. Hey, that’s just what we did. Both of these dating horror stories (can’t believe they were willing to tell us) just cry out ‘hey, top this!!’ Oddly, both stories have to do with bodily functions….

TeenHollywood: So, ladies, tell us about your worst date ever!

Diane Lane: Well I was the date from hell. I was young and can use that as an excuse. I went to a rock concert on a blind date. My grandmother set me up with somebody in Texas, she’s a Texan. I just wanted to go to the concert and we drove there in his car. I think it was Billy Squire opening for Queen – oh my God! They serve these really huge Texas sized drinks and I had one. I was wearing leather pants and was kind of sweaty and sticky and I’m not used to leather pants. Actually I think it was the last time I ever wore leather pants.
Anyway, the concert’s over and everyone is leaving and I really needed to go to the bathroom. I’m carrying around this huge bucket sized container and I’m thinking this is possible, I can do this. I asked the gentleman if he would allow me to go in the car and pull down the leather pants and went into that huge trough – you can’t hold it in one hand, it’s so big. Texas size, right. Everything was fine until I had to pull the pants up and I knocked the bucket over (laughter). And I wiped it up with the t-shirts from the concert. And I never told him and I can only imagine what it smelled like the next day!

TeenHollywood: I take it he never called you again.

Diane; No he didn’t. That’s really sad.

Elizabeth Perkins: My sister had a really good date from hell story. She went on this scuba diving trip by herself and there was this guy on the trip by himself as well and he was this really obnoxious guy and, secretly, he told everybody that they were together and he was sitting next to her all the time so everybody assumed that they were. The first day they were out on the scuba boat, he came down with diarrhea and had to be held over the side of the boat so he could [poop] as the boat was moving along.
[We say OMG!] Everybody thought my sister was with this loser and it wasn’t until they were getting on the plane to come home that the other people on the boat said ‘well, how long have you been together?’ This is the guy they hung out of the boat while he….whooo one of those guys. She had no idea that the entire boat thought they were a couple. Then… he asked for her phone number! She’s like ‘you know what? Don’t think so’!

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