Word: karens
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...known it by watching lately. Like post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question--that he learned "to listen to them"--was According to Jim politics. He's the likable hubby who needs Laura to point...
...film features a so-so B-list cast with Sarah Michelle Gellar starring as Karen, the non-vampire-slaying, non-mystery-solving exchange student in Toyko, Bill Pullman as Peter, an ill-fated professor and Grace Zabriskie as Emma, an elderly woman who’s either a heavy heroin addict or a precog. Except for Zabriskie reinventing the doped-up old woman role, the rest of the cast disappoints—especially Gellar. Sure, she can wield a wooden stake, seduce her brother and spot Scooby Doo like no one else, but Gellar just can’t handle...
...known it by watching lately. Like post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question - that he learned "to listen to them" - was According to Jim politics. He's the likable hubby who needs Laura to point...
THERE IS TO BE NO SCOWLING this time, George Bush's counselors told him, even if John Kerry attacks your mom. Campaign officials say it took Karen Hughes a good while to convince the Commander in Chief after the first presidential debate that he had looked irritated. "I was not irritated," he told her, irritated. "Sir, you were," she said. Hughes is one of the few who can tell the President what he might not want to hear and show him what he might not be able to see for himself. Within 72 hours of losing that first debate, which...
...recently encountered in West Virginia guarding a house with menace in its eye. Rosenthal laid down a challenge to his canvasser: Get past the turkey. It took a few tries, but it was worth the risk. Says Rosenthal: "It turns out there were four Democrats in that house." --By Karen Tumulty...