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...something inconceivable to Shakespeare." Things happen to Shakespeare's women; Middleton's make things happen. Characters like The Roaring Girl's Moll Cutpurse, who flaunts social rules by wearing trousers and refusing to marry, and The Changeling's Beatrice Joanna - whose plan to hire a servant to kill her fiancé backfires when the hit man blackmails her into bed - are the architects of their own destiny, for better or worse...
...come on, you do too remember Ben Affleck. He and then fiancé Jennifer Lopez were like the proto-Brangelina, the honey pot upon which the insistent swarm of paparazzi and show-biz magazines feasted in 2003, which, admittedly, in tabloid years is the Paleozoic era. They appeared together in two movies that didn't do well but delighted many in their flopitude. Before that, he was a movie star who commanded millions of dollars for movies that usually co-starred a cataclysmic threat and had names like The Sum of All Fears and Armageddon and I Lost My Memory...
...Thursday, however, a front-page New York Times story raised many doubts about the veracity of Head's story. Among other things, the family of her supposed fiancé does not believe the relationship ever existed, the story claims. And her supposed employer has no record of her, either, according to the Times...
...Head over the years through survivor events. "We just assume we're always on the brink of getting emotional." He remembers noticing one inconsistency in Head's story: Miller was there when I met Head for coffee three years ago. During our conversation, he heard Head refer to her fiancé. Years later, while conducting tours of Ground Zero alongside Head, he heard that she had called this man her husband. "I just thought, 'That's odd.'" He asked her about it, he says. "She said, 'Oh, yeah, we did get married...
...After that, Miller's recollection is hazy. "I may have asked, 'Well, then why did you refer to him as your fiancé?' But you don't want to press these things. I don't even remember what her response was, if I did indeed press her. I was sort of of the mind-set, 'whatever makes her feel better.' Her story was just so much more horrible than anything else...