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...spouse is pretty much the only person you can't cut out of a will," says Wynne Whitman, an estate-planning lawyer in New Jersey. Although the law differs from state to state, attorneys say statutes and courts tend to favor surviving spouses in determining inheritances, especially if there are minor children. (The Hoppers have a 6-year-old.) The court might even posthumously change a prenuptial agreement, which the Hoppers also have and which Victoria Hopper is challenging...
...contrast, on “Jersey Shore,” the producers subtly pit themselves against their subjects. Their very objective is to showcase a lifestyle completely foreign to the viewer. Footage is mercilessly (and brilliantly) edited for punchlines, and great pains are taken to highlight the cast’s frequent malapropisms. The effect of this is to invite us to view the housemates not as reflections of ourselves, but as something entirely different...
...many of us—the college-educated, the pale, the deeply neurotic—each episode of “Jersey Shore” is an ideological vacation. Its appeal lies in the consummately indulgent philosophy it espouses. You can’t spell “guido” without “id.” For every hour the rest of us will spend working overtime at the office, they’ll spend another on the dance floor...
...honest with myself, I’m a little jealous. The housemates on “Jersey Shore” embrace the vapidity of their lifestyles wholeheartedly, as if there were no other option. I have more self-doubt in one finger than Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino has in his entire body, including—lest we forget—his infamous six-pack...
It’s not that we should abandon our responsibilities, crank up the house music, and flee to the boardwalks of South Jersey, but there’s a lesson here to be learned—life is short, but not too short for another shot of Jager...