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...targeted to women - are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids by her business-traveling husband. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is abandoned emotionally by her rich spouse. They get mad and get even, through affairs, subterfuge, even poisoning. When her husband asks for a divorce, Bree (Marcia Cross) serves him a salad with onions, to which he's deathly allergic...
...three stories into a meditation on anxiety and loss amid the placid routines of life in urban Japan. The kitchen salesman's elephant fixation ruins a potential romance. The larcenous couple learn they don't really know each other ("What was she doing with ski masks?" asks the exasperated husband. "We've never gone skiing.") The sleepless housewife realizes she despises her well-ordered life and runs off to a potential date with the Big Sleep-death. Things taken for granted suddenly seem out of place, and cause becomes separated from effect. "Our world has become so bright," muses...
...with a physical disability is incredibly difficult. The day to day aspects of life are so difficult and to do much beyond that is hard to comprehend, Ellison said. [Reeve] was not only giving speeches, running his foundation, and [directing] this movie, he was also a father and a husband...
...previous 3,000," says historian Stephanie Coontz, author of a forthcoming history of marriage, to be published by Viking Penguin in May 2005. The tradition of the bride's parents' financing the nuptials, she notes, derives from the old dowry system, in which parents were essentially reimbursing the husband or his family for agreeing to take on the task of supporting their daughter...
Take, for example, Pauline Cotnoir, 82, who last year decided to sell the house in Newark, Del., where she and her husband had raised eight children. Eager to move to Sunrise Senior Living in nearby Wilmington and also to help her daughter and son-in-law, Jacqueline and Peter Hannaford, who had lived with her for eight years, Cotnoir offered the couple the chance to buy the 1920s colonial for 80% of the fair market value. "Essentially my mother gifted us the equivalent of a 20% down payment," says Jacqueline, 37, "which helped us a lot financially." Cotnoir...