A couple put their arms around each other and move in close for a heartfelt kiss.
She tilts her head and closes her eyes; his are open, looking at her with protective devotion.?
They seem happy in each other's company, clearly lovers and good friends, comfortable with each other and in their own skins.
So far, so touching.

But equally, so what? The red-carpet shot published in the Mail this week is nothing exceptional, surely... save for the fact that he is , the 58-year-old film star - and his girlfriend, Alexandra Grant, is not only 50 but has grey hair, too.
Yet shock - even horror - is expressed every time a new picture of the couple emerges.?
Shock - even horror - is expressed every time a new picture of Keanu Reeves? Alexandra Grant emerges
People can't seem to get over the fact that a heartthrob is dating a mature woman, rather than a lithe young girl with puffy lips and a spookily immobile face.

(Grant's grey hair always gets a mention in the press coverage.)
What is it that bothers people about this relationship? Is it their similar ages? Is it that, while she is a handsome woman, she is not conventionally button-nosed pretty?
Nor does she appear to have had cosmetic tweakments to make her look like every other woman in Hollywood.
Grant may be a successful artist who is trilingual, teaches and is a regular doer of good philanthropic things. But where are the boobs, hips and lustrous long hair that suggest she could squeeze out five kids in as many years and do the Pirelli calendar?
Hot babes are male accessories like big watches and fast cars? That juicy, youthful, fecund look so many women seek to emulate long after that particular evolutionary asset has gone.
For it is a truth universally acknowledged that a hot rich guy should forever be in want of a younger, hotter wife.

Unless she has been married to him for aeons, we've been indoctrinated to believe that a middle-aged woman just doesn't sit right with a middle-aged male icon.
I admit I'm a serial offender. If ever I see a male celebrity with a