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Until recently, 11 residents of Greenwich, Conn. have suffered in silence. For on their mailboxes, in fine rubber-plastic, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold glitter, appear the words, “Hooker Street.” Not Hooker as in Rev. Thomas Hooker, the esteemed colonial minister who helped create the model document for the U.S. Constitution. Hooker as in the family name of the wife of the guy who developed the strip in the late 1960s. Big difference, though not the biggest issue for embarrassed residents...
Crime rate will likely decrease as a result of the name change. The Hooker Street sign has been stolen countless times for its novelty value. In response to these annoying pranks, residents have moved the sign high enough so that potential crooks can’t read it. Effective, but more can be done. If the street name was changed to “Stonebrook Lane,” the only people who will want to steal it are senior citizens eager to decorate their backyard ponds...
...says Randy, 53, "I don't believe that men should be together. I never will. But I love him as my son. And he and his partner are good boys." Randy says his first reaction to Bryan's teen homosexuality was, "I'm going to find him the best hooker I can." But he says he and his wife sent Bryan to Casa not because he was gay but because he was a "totally unruly kid" who was "just so mean ... To go get that scholarship, I understand he had to be the poor little victim. But for three years...
...Desperate Housewives did that for drama and soaps. But a genre show can hook viewers fast through sensational plots. Guy gets drugged by a hooker--bang, you got 30 million people's attention. Sitcoms depend on gradual bonding with characters, and today's networks, part of media conglomerates, want instant hits. "Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them," says Phil Rosenthal, creator of Raymond, which--like Seinfeld and Cheers--had poor ratings its first season...
Even with its carefully tatty pseudo-documentary air, Working Girls is not novel or shocking. Nor does it astonish in its insights. The transaction between a hooker and a john is not complex. The women are justifiably contemptuous of their clients, who are mostly in wan pursuit of dismal fantasies. To imply that this is a paradigm of the male-female relationship is closer to feminist propaganda than to home truth...