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...mordant humor and terrific cast. But it trades on a dated image of ticky-tacky suburbia that Hollywood has been spoofing for decades. (One character makes a batch of ambrosia, the marshmallow-studded salad that is as au courant in today's upscale 'burbs as a beehive hairdo.) And there's something smug and icky about a bunch of TV professionals essentially implying that if their female suburban viewers only realized how empty their Susie Homemaker existences were, they would blow their brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Straits: The Days of Our Wives | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...classroom hours he would need to graduate. When McBride told him, Tillman shot back that it was McBride's job to make sure he didn't do any more or any less. "I had a weird reaction," says McBride. "I almost said, 'Yes, sir'--except he had that surfer hairdo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Of A Volunteer: One For The Team | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...much of her premakeover existence, Tammy Guthrie, 41, a mother of three in St. Petersburg, Fla., was a drab, weary homemaker in sweat pants and a T shirt. Then the Hollywood fairies intervened. They gave her a bright porcelain smile, a sassy California hairdo, a neck lift, a face-lift and, at least for a while, a bold new attitude that revved up her relationship with her husband Wally. "Our romance had really waned over the years," she says. Wally felt as if he were having an affair in the weeks that followed Tammy's return, but since then things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Makeover | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...kids' birthday party at New York City's American Girl Place costs $30 a head. Ditto for a ticket to the doll retailer's in-store musicals. Twenty smackers will cover a new hairdo for your doll at the store's salon. But if you want to buy a doll, you'll have to shell out four times that. Despite such hefty prices, the three-story doll emporium that opened in midtown Manhattan last month is mobbed. So too is Chicago's five-year-old American Girl Place, which ranks as the Magnificent Mile's top-grossing store. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Girl: Rise Of A Toy Classic | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...photo was taken, the style crew of trained professionals appeared and fairy godmother Oprah whisked the woman away to the faraway salons of makeover land. At the end of the show the new-and-improved mom would dash onto the stage grinning from ear to ear, chic new hairdo unnaturally bouncing from side to side. The dad cried, the children cheered and Oprah gave mom a quick hug, a five-year supply of Pampers for the kids, and if her sponsors were feeling particularly generous, a brand new minivan for the ride back to suburban Wisconsin. It was any mother?...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bubblegum Machine | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

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