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Consider a job at Tennessee's Easter Seals Camp Lindahl, in the Nashville suburb of Mt. Juliet. Camp Lindahl needs counselors to provide supervision, personal care and friendship to children and adults with disabilities...
...months in the life of Barbs, she never once pauses to consider the effects of her dramatic actions. She never once considers the difficulties of being a single parent, the effect her affair with a 26 year old student, Grant Steel (Ciaran Crawford) will have on her close friendship with Grant's mother, or how to effectively communicate with her own mother. By the end of the play, one leaves wishing that at least one of these serious issues had been resolved...
...duplicates many of the elements of the initial diary, incomplete sentences and all. The diet books of the first diary may have been replaced by self-help ones, but Bridget's pick-and-mix approach, choosing only the advice she enjoys, remains, as do the dynamics of her tripartite friendship with Jude and Shazzer. As they work their way through their various relationships, that friendship is both funny and genuinely warm. The casual acceptance of smoking, alcohol use and sex (aside: could Renee Zellweger, recently cast as Bridget, duplicate this very British aspect of Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less...
...parade. She tells us that her two best friends since childhood keep her grounded-but then we find out that these girls are also her "personal assistants." Meaning that she forks over a wad of cash and they "draw her baths at the Ritz." Now that's friendship. When traveling, Jennifer "requires that she sleep on sheets with a minimum thread count of 250 and that she be driven in a black Mercedes with a male driver" (hmmmm...). And she has the ability to demand the Body Shop's opening after hours in case she needs an extra canister...
...Mailer had trouble establishing positive relationships with women. He hardly endeared himself to feminists with lines like "I like to marry women whom I can beat once in a while, and who fight back." Married six times with mistresses on the side, he was still able to develop a friendship with Gloria Steinem. Mailer's comments seem absurd, and seem less a result of male chauvinism and more a tool with which Mailer attempted to get more popular attention...