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...GYLLENHAAL and PETER SARSGAARD will share parenting duties. Gyllenhaal, 28, whose most notorious role was as a secretary who liked spanking, and Sarsgaard, 35, who co-starred with Gyllenhaal's brother Jake in 2005's Jarhead, are engaged and are expecting a baby. The two have conducted a quiet courtship since they met four years ago. No public spats. No embarrassing photos in the tabloids. Still, we're sure the marriage will work out fine...
...Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (UPN). Not that I expected the story of the celebrity horror-pair's courtship to be good, but I deeply hoped it would be so-bad-it's-good. Instead, it was a tedious home movie that made Crossroads look like Citizen Kane, and Nick and Jessica look like the Curies...
...revolutionary idea for a sitcom--in 1994. Overshadowed by more distinctive sitcom debuts this fall (see #10), Mother does for the young-urbans comedy what Everybody Loves Raymond did for the bickering-in-laws genre: proves that originality isn't everything. The gimmicky hook--narrator looks back on his courtship from 25 years in the future--is a distraction; what stands out is the crackling dialogue and rapport among the ensemble cast. (When Neal Patrick Harris isn't slipping the show into his tailored breast pocket, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan are so cute you could sprinkle powdered sugar...
Finding a spouse remains the priority. Internet dating sites, like LDSHearts.com are popular. But the church prefers to encourage more traditional courtship. When Oaks, the Mormon leader who fretted about the rise of singles, declared in May, "It's marriage time," imploring young people to lay off group activities and date more, single Saints across the country took heed. Even in Manhattan--with a vast support network of unmarried Mormons--Jeffrey Jackson, 27, says he and friends in his singles ward immediately put "more focus on one-on-one relationships," proposing more dates and trying to consider their female friends...
...short, the people’s will on the matter was abundantly clear, and there was no need for Romney to reintroduce a settled issue for a third time in a decade. Indeed, the attempted reintroduction of capital punishment is only the latest installment in Romney’s courtship of the GOP’s conservative wing. Romney has already become something of a national symbol of the opposition to same-sex unions. Despite strong support for gay marriages in his own state, Romney has repeatedly tried to advance his own ideology in the legislature, which, in turn...