Name That Genre with People Magazine

When People magazine reviews a movie, the review usually starts out with an information box that lists the genre of the movie. The following picture is an example from the May 24th issue review of Robin Hood.

The same issue also includes a review of the movie Letters to Juliet.

Here is a closer look at the information box from this review.


Unless there is a new movie genre named, simply, "genre" I have to believe the article writer/editor forgot to fill in the genre in the layout for this review.

Poor Semantic Word Choice in People Magazine

The December 8th issue of People magazine included the following:
I have to say that I have a problem with the choice of one particular word in the first sentence.

"Three months after her split with Michael Bolton, Nicolette Sheridan cozied up to another familiar face, David Spade, 44."

If you haven't guessed already, the word that bothers me is with. As far as I am concerned, when you split with someone, you are leaving for somewhere with that person (ex. John went to England with Megan). And for that matter, anytime the preposition with is used, it semantically implies togetherness. I believe a better word choice here would have been from, as in she split apart from him.

What do you think? Please comment.