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...Manhattan 10 years ago from her native London, Brown, 34, has been a perennial rising star. For a while she was also something of an art babe, with spreads in Vogue and Vanity Fair that dwelt as much on her looks as her brushwork. And like any good postfeminist, she took her bows and played to that image, working in a palette heavy on girly pinks and occasionally signing her canvases "Cecily." You know, like Cher...
...looks like fun for MARCIA GAY HARDEN and JULIA ROBERTS, but filming Mona Lisa Smile, due out in December, required some serious study. Roberts plays a professor at Wellesley College in 1953 who tries to inspire her students to think beyond marriage. Director Mike Newell made his cast of postfeminist women, including Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles, take manners lessons and wear rubber girdles. "They complained about it," says Newell. "It was antithetical to the way they were brought...
Writers like Quinn are reinventing the romance novel for the postfeminist generation. Although she hasn't discarded the conventions of romance, Quinn is more than willing to tweak them. In Romancing Mister Bridgerton, her 11th novel, which spent a month on the New York Times paperback best-seller list last summer, the heroine is a plump wallflower. Her hero actually complains, with a sigh, that he isn't "dark and brooding." He is not a sexual predator either. "I can't think of anything in my books that any feminist would find objectionable," Quinn says. "And I consider myself...
...Half's blowing the lid off why men don't look at maps.) But at best, these series show TV arriving at a more nuanced understanding of manhood. In the dreaded '70s "sensitive man" era, feminist guys tended to simply, implausibly, deny what made them different from women. The postfeminist backlash of the '90s gave us the chest-thumping likes of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Today's post-postfeminist TV man isn't perfect. But at least he's trying to strike a balance between being Alan Alda and being The Man Show's Adam Carolla...
...Juan Miguel Gonzalez who had died in the Straits of Florida and the mother who waited back in Cuba, Elian would have been sent back to her immediately, on the premise that the mother-child bond trumps politics. It's natural. But the father...that's different. In the postfeminist tabloid subconscious of America, fathers are problematic figures with bad track records--a certain smudge of anger and potential violence in them, untrustworthy, given to rotten behavior, if not now, then later. And, by association, this particular dad morphs vaguely into a bearded Stalinist dictator...