Word: ex
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...Rindge Ave. resident reported her boyfriend's ex-wife has been harassing her. At 8:45 a.m. on March 31, the ex-wife threw a bicycle at her, injuring her foot and bruising her thigh...
...clinic consent form directing that any unused embryos be donated for research. But a month before she sued Steven for divorce, Maureen told the hospital she didn't want the embryos destroyed. Her lawyer, Vincent Stempel, points out that she had surgery to create the embryos, while her ex-husband only donated sperm. "She went through a lot of physical pain to have these eggs extracted," he says. And, he notes, they may represent her last chance of becoming a biological mother...
...five frozen embryos, made from his sperm and her eggs, left over from their married days of trying to conceive by in-vitro fertilization. Maureen, who is 40 and childless, wants to use them to have children. Steven, 38, is adamant that he doesn't want kids with his ex-wife. He is seeking to donate the embryos to research. Their fight has ended up in New York's highest court, which hears arguments this week. Legal experts expect a landmark decision that will reverberate nationally on the hotly contested question of just who controls frozen fertilized tissue that...
...Tell Dad, neatly rescuing it from another-bygone-celebrity-spills-his-guts status. And HELEN HUNT'S agent. Two Emmys and an Oscar really help in renegotiating your client's sitcom contract. Then there's CHER. Just when folks were thinking of her as the late Congressman's ex, Bob Mackie and that hat reminded us why she's famous. Mothers were also big winners this year. MATT DAMON and BEN AFFLECK brought theirs, as did Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams and Naomi Judd. And finally, Stanley Donen. His sweet, self-effacing song made a pointed contrast to Titanic director...
...ex-children have created an elaborate culture of fantasy. The more brilliantly our moviemakers and television makers succeed in their work of the technological and artistic imagination, the more their audiences are transported back into the realm of the child-id that is most hospitable to fantasy--a zone of suspended disbelief wherein all things become possible, including deeds of graphic violence. It is sometimes said that too many television shows and movies are cynically targeted at 12-year-olds. That's not exactly the point: the makers of those shows in effect appropriate the imaginative world of the child...