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Many of the teas have themes: one this year was based on the works of British author Evelyn Waugh and featured a teddy bear named Aloysius and strawberries and champagne, details taken from Waugh's Brideshead Revisited...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
Minnie, by relating this story to Evelyn, inspires the dissatisfied, middle-aged housewife--"I'm too young to be old and too old to be young,"--to forget trying to please her clueless couchpotato husband, take charge of her life, and replace her boxes of doughnuts with celery sticks and Reebok step workouts. And the two become fast friends...
...despite the movie's heavy-handed and obvious themes, it has both unique twists--how Idgy disposes of the body of Ruth's husband--and hilarious scenes, such as when the transformed nineties-woman Evelyn impulsively rams the car of two sweet young thangs who have stolen her parking space at the shoppin' mall: "I may be slower, but I'm older and have more insurance," she yells triumphantly...