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...Marty Dinn ’03) and his swashbuckling, scene-stealing cohorts Henry and Mortimar (Thomas Odell ’05 and Neil G. Ellingson ’05). El Gallo and associates stage the rape of Luisa and her rescue by Matt. As planned, when Matt saves his damsel in distress, the two fall more deeply in love, and the fathers find themselves with an opportunity to end their public feuding—for who could hate the father of his sweet daughter’s savior...
...dictates - Teresa Heinz Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton - even occasionally offering to fetch the coffee. On the way down, she has to be even more careful if she ever hopes to rise again. Even for the strongest of the breed, the best strategy is to feign weakness, to play the damsel in distress. Martha Stewart, that means...
...Lucky for Martha, there's another vilified damsel to provide guidance: Hillary. The two have a lot more in common than first-name recognition. Both rose to the top by dint of brains, resolve, and marriages that jump-started their careers - Martha's to the publisher of her first books, Hillary's to a governor-to-be. Both have had their financial transactions investigated by ambitious prosecutors. Both were humiliated by husbands who fell for younger women. Both are loved and hated for driving while blond...
...Martha took a step in that direction on Wednesday, giving in to the disgrace of the moment, looking distraught and wounded and disheveled for the first time ever on camera. Like that other distressed damsel Hillary, who had Ken Starr, Martha has a villain: James Comey, the U.S. Attorney for New York. He may protest too much when insisting he's indicting Stewart not for "who she is, but because of what she did." Other federal prosecutors readily admit that going after a celebrity is a cost-effective way to deter all the potential lawbreakers out there. But note there...
...Your damsel in distress, of sorts...