Word: pregnant
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...contempt for love stories. It may be actually getting harder to get people to believe in them, acknowledges Richard Curtis, writer of such indelible romances as Four Weddings and Notting Hill, because our expectations have changed. "If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it's called searingly realistic, even though it's never happened in the history of mankind," he notes. "Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some...
...take the teen-pregnancy numbers. It's not enough to credit the virtues of responsibility and better sex education. Something racier is desired. According to some writers, fewer teens are getting pregnant because they've all switched to oral sex. Or maybe the phenomenon is due to a still unexplained decline in sperm counts...
Like all good fairy tales, this one starts with Claudia Schiffer. Once upon a time a fireplace fell on Schiffer's foot. She was pregnant at the time. "When a marble fireplace falls on your foot," Neil Gaiman explains, "and you're 7½ months pregnant, you stop going places. You sit around, and you read." Schiffer read Gaiman's novel Stardust and told her husband that it was the best book she'd ever read. Schiffer's husband is the director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake). And thus it was that Gaiman finally made his big Hollywood movie...
...Both sides of the aisle pointed to presidential waivers that had allowed about 700,000 low-income adults, parents and pregnant women to receive S-CHIP coverage in 2006, and that Bush's own Administration has encouraged governors to expand the program...
...Indeed, the current screen sensation Sorry, I Got Your Wife Pregnant, showing in several major cities, has yet to provoke the ire generated by Kiss Me Quick, yanked from screens because of its supposedly racy title. Yet, the notion of adultery in Sorry seems not to have upset the censors. "We allowed it because the wife was actually separated from the husband," explains Titie Said, the 72-year-old head of the Film Censorship Board. "We have guidelines, but if we cut everything we want a lot of films would be pretty short...