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Reese Witherspoon, 26, was a critics' darling (especially in Election) before she earned fame last year in Legally Blonde. Superficially, Sweet Home Alabama is a similar fish-out-of-water scenario. Blonde sent a Beverly Hills fashionista to Harvard Law School; Sweet sends Southern gal Melanie--who had fled to...
Anita Cali sat with her old college friend Gloria, talking about Gloria's ex-husband Peter. Suddenly tears sprang to Anita's eyes. "I miss Peter," she said of her friend's husband. Gloria rolled her eyes in exasperation: "You're just like the kids!" she said. Gloria and Peter...
Nevertheless, their friends felt compelled to choose between them. Gloria, who had instigated the divorce because she realized she was gay, kept her old friends, like Anita, but nearly all the Orthodox Jewish couple's married friends sided with her husband. Peter, who told his ex-wife that of the...
But the situation is infinitely more complicated when a couple makes friends as a couple and there are no clear loyalties. For starters, many married people read the divorce of close friends as a threatening act. It breaks the cocoon that surrounds the foursome. The intact couple sometimes doesn't...
One of the hot tickets at the New York Film Festival last week was Ten, a deceptively simple movie about an Iranian woman and her car. Its two screenings sold out immediately, says festival director Richard Peña. But one key invitee wasn't able to make it - the...