This week Facebook, the Twitterverse and a surprising number of our despondent co-workers unleashed banshee-like cries of anguish, pounded their fists on their desks and typed away the pain by joining the collective mourning for a cold, unforgiving world that rarely makes any sense.
Was it the ongoing unrest in Syria? The “unprecedented scale” of violence witnessed in Egypt since the army ousted democratically elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last July? The continued gay rights violations by the Russian government leading up to the Winter Olympics?
No… it was the announcement that after 39 years of marriage, ’70s hit-makers Captain & Tennille are getting divorced.
News spread faster than a case of circa-1978 chlamydia that 73-year-old Toni Tennille, whose real name is Cathryn Tennille, filed for divorce from Daryl Dragon (the Captain), 71, on Jan. 16 after nearly four decades of marriage. Did Tennille finally have enough of her husband’s insistence of wearing a captain’s hat? Did the pressure of keeping up the façade behind the couple’s biggest hit “Love with Keep Us Together” weigh too heavily and paradoxically become their undoing? Or was it the morbidly tantalizing prospect of seeing their most famous song subverted by dozens of media outlets who predictably resorted to using “Love Won’t Keep Them Together” in their headlines?
We have no idea. Besides, we’ve always been more of a “Muskrat Love” fan.
