Playing By Heart

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, Mark is dying of AIDS, and his mother comes to his bedside, men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, the trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit, an adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex, Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars. By the week's end, their parallel stories converge.