Word: motherhood
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Somewhere Dan Quayle is clenching his fists. Two decades after the then Vice President bemoaned single motherhood - calling out the sitcom Murphy Brown for having its eponymous main character choose to have a child on her own - the latest data on U.S. births show that a full 40% of babies are now born to unmarried mothers. (Read about the Quayle/Murphy Brown controversy...
...There's been voice work (Charlotte's Web) and favors to friends, including two irritatingly meta parts for Steven Soderbergh, in Full Frontal and Ocean's Twelve. (Addressing the self-spoofing, she told Allure recently, "I'm just lazy. It's so easy.") In 2004, just before her motherhood-necessitated work slowdown, she veered into intriguing adult territory with Owen in Closer, projecting a chilliness that felt a bit forced but suggested she was willing to forgo audience adulation...
...unintentional vanishing acts or inspires unfortunate experiments with surgery. Roberts could toss aside her career--unless Bernie Madoff managed her money, she shouldn't need the paycheck--but she doesn't want to. Working, she has said, brings some form into the "shapeless blob of happy chaos" that is motherhood. I've already seen Duplicity, but I'd be willing to give her my $10 just for summing up the working mother's perspective so nicely...
...Motherhood, by the way, looks good on her. Onscreen, she's lush and full: any woman who has breast-fed will recognize the source of her Duplicity cleavage. Her Claire makes Owen's Ray even more swoon-worthy; we know he appreciates a real woman. If you're nostalgic for the pretty woman in pink-and-black spandex, too bad. Roberts isn't shoehorning herself back into a prostitute's work outfit. She's too sensible to even try. All the more reason to hope she's still a trendsetter...
...Motherhood did not keep Richardson from taking strong stage roles. On Broadway, she was one of the four erotic flagellants in Patrick Marber's biting comedy Closer as well as the one touch of tattered grace in a plebeian revival of Streetcar. And though Londoners shouldn't have been surprised by the way Richardson could wrap an audience in her spell, she was a revelation in Trevor Nunn's take on Ibsen's Lady from the Sea. The plot is high harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free...