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These alone would make Heartburn a useful anthology of insults. But Ephron has another purpose. It is no secret that her marriages were more the stuff of Congreve than Cosmo. The first, to Comedy Writer Dan Greenburg (How to Be a Jewish Mother), ended in 1973. The second, to Journalist Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men), was finished shortly after the birth of their second son. Bernstein's association with an ambassador's wife had been Topic A at Washington parties. When Ephron discovered the liaison, she headed back to New York City and retribution...
Anna seems almost alarmingly controlled, unreachable-as modern as any Cosmo girl. But what about her Victorian twin? Is Sarah, as Irons describes her, "the breath of a new century"? Or is she simply mad-driven to psychosis by the conflicting pulls of passion and repression? "I hope by the end she establishes that she's probably not insane," muses Fowles. "Or if she is, it's a fruitful kind of insanity." Mad or just modern, it hardly matters, for Sarah is above all an actress. In one of the film's most powerful scenes, we find...
...home for sex ... it only takes a few minutes to change the sheets"). But it also carries some closely reasoned political advice: a 3,700-word article by Columbia Law School Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg urging passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. To give the ERA cause a boost, Cosmo and 32 other women's magazines from Ms. to Playgirl, from Vogue to House & Garden agreed to run pieces about the amendment in their next month's issue...
Even though the 33 magazines have a joint circulation of 60 million, one editor at least had few illusions about their collective clout, especially head to head with Opposition Leader Phyllis Schlafly. Says Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: "All the women's magazines together may not be as effective as Phyllis Schlafly with her rabble-rousing TV appearances. But we hope reason will prevail...
...issue he raises--is the Wall Street rat race worth it? Weston's friend, Littlefield, drops out only to land gloriously as a Yale Law School professor, and Weston and Newton, although they leave Bass and Marshall, still seem in awe of the grand old head of the firm, Cosmo Bass, and are fairly well indoctrinated, if somewhat rambunctious...