Word: mcgann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that in addition to Rowlands' diary, the woman in Texas with whom Morris had fathered a child six years earlier was giving television interviews and was rumored to be shopping her own book, despite the fact that Morris had faithfully paid her $4,000 a month in child support. McGann knew she had made the right decision when, after a few days back from California, she was so besieged by reporters when she showed up at the courthouse for a murder trial that she had to drop the case. "I stayed out of the limelight when...
...when your prefeminist, stand-by-your-man performance prompts millions (including me) to label you a doormat, it is hard to reclaim your anonymity. Like a state trooper who keeps hundreds from speeding by pulling over one scofflaw, McGann might have slowed down a few philanderers with a decisive show of force. But she resisted playing to the crowd or saving face, to the near universal scorn of the sisterhood. "I didn't know that feminists had decreed what the politically correct rules were for personal relationships," she says. "I did what was right...
...begins the next day with the two sisters, a brother and a niece she adores, thanks, she says, laughing, "to the $299 Air France special Bob Dole advertised right after the election." Whereas Morris was a slug for preaching family values to the campaign while violating them himself, McGann really believes in the notion. Over Christmas, she welcomed Morris' daughter to their Connecticut home for the holidays...
...asked McGann earlier in the day if she would consider taking Morris back, but she made a persuasive case that hers was a thoughtful decision. Though she had missed Prime Time Live on Wednesday night, she knew that her husband had gone into Duke of Windsor mode, pledging on four networks to win back the woman he loves. While she was airborne over the Atlantic, he was recounting to Larry King how he had got a huge lump in his throat earlier that evening at the sight of pompano on the menu--because he and Eileen had discovered it together...
There are worse things after 20 years of marriage than a man who gets teary over a fish and who has entered intense therapy. But all McGann would say is that "life is complicated, and I'm old enough to never say never." It's easy to see why Morris leaned on her. Any one of us unlucky enough to find ourselves with just one call from the police station would want to do the same...