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...True feminist points, though, might go to Otherwise Engaged, which, while no paragon of craftsmanship, takes on the subject of female commitment fear, not a topic feverishly discussed in McCall's. The novel deconstructs a year in the life of Eve, a successful ad executive, as she prepares to marry at 36. She has dated her beau for four years. All along she has thought happiness would come in a ring box, but once Eve gets her gem, all she can do is panic over the foreverness of it all--aren't all married people miserable? It is comforting...
...each day Leno drives to the cramped offices of the Feminist Majority Foundation in her blue BMW in which the red engine light keeps coming on (she says Jay coddles only his vintage cars). She recruited Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (creator of Designing Women) to help grab attention for Afghan women. Together, they battled compassion fatigue to mount a $150- per-head buffet dinner with more than 100 A-list names. Despite Leno's spending 12-hour days on the phone, performers and guests were dropping out days before the March 29 event ("You mean Sally Field's not coming? Well...
...around to be at the event. Her story of brutality shocked me out of my fear of a middle seat. She'd fled here with her mother, leaving behind a father in prison and female relatives plunged into the Dark Ages. No one has misinformed her. Leno and the Feminist Majority look like her best chance to go home again...
...BONDED WITH MADONNA: Asked to appear in a Material Girl-produced film about a young pyromaniac, Stiles took an informal meeting with her longtime feminist influence. "She's very assertive, and nobody's bossing her around," the younger actress says, mimicking Madonna's screwy new British accent. "I've always kind of tried to emulate that...
...Despite my appreciation, I don t know what to do about the awkward ambiguities feminism left for me and a couple other billion women: what to do if I m not the perfect feminist? So if you know, let me know. I ll be vacuuming or plucking my brows...