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In Sweet Home Alabama, a romantic comedy opening this week, Reese Witherspoon plays a Manhattan fashion designer who returns to her rural hometown to get a divorce from her high school sweetheart. She does not, however, fake her own death as a joke. She does not, while drunk in a...
SWEET HOME ALABAMA. Like most recent vehicles for Reese Witherspoon’s wide-eyed spunk, Sweet Home Alabama is all about being out of place, usually with native charm shining against cold elitism (see Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions, etc.). This time, Witherspoon plays Melanie, a trailer trash expat who...
Because most corporations have policies that prohibit gender discrimination, membership of company officers at Augusta could be viewed as a conflict. Such leading lights as Sanford Weill of Citigroup and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway are members. So is Kenneth Chenault of American Express, one of a handful of black...
As little and as much as we like, as it turns out. Diana, unlike other celebrities of her time, provided us with a deep pool of collective memory: The wedding, the divorce, the funeral. Where did you watch it? Where were you when you heard? Only loosely-defined standards of...
Think back. Was that Betsy Carter's name you saw in the gossip columns in 1986? That was the year that Carter, the former editorial director of Esquire, launched New York Woman, an edgy, sophisticated magazine for urban women. For Carter--accomplished, energetic, at center stage of the Manhattan magazine...