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...everything they play," says McEachern. "You see a representative number of hands, exciting hands, to be TV friendly." In between the action, there are refreshingly cheese-free player profiles introducing the likes of Annie Duke, the top poker-playing woman, who came in 10th in 2000 while eight months' pregnant; Dutch Boyd, a math genius who went to college at age 12; and Chris (Jesus) Ferguson, a graduate student at UCLA who can slice a banana with a thrown playing card from 50 ft. away...
...When you come in, you see Seven Jeans, Chaiken jeans, Earl Jeans, which are all names you know if you're not pregnant," says Mavridis. "Girls grab the clothes, get into the dressing room and then say, 'Why do these fit funny?'" The would-be clients are often embarrassed by their mistake, but Marin County's pregnant fashionistas are thrilled that mainstream designers are finally creating clothes for their expanding waistlines. Over the past two years, couturiers like Chaiken, Diane von Furstenberg, Lilly Pulitzer and Anna Sui have all made their maternity-wear debuts...
That today's pregnant woman--who, compared with women 30 years ago, is often older, has a more high-powered job and is working later in her pregnancy--wants fashionable clothing isn't a particularly new idea. One of the first to translate it into reality was Rebecca Matthias, president of Mothers Work, who says she didn't buy a single maternity outfit when she was expecting her first child in 1981. "The industry was run by men," says Matthias, whose company claims to be the largest maternitywear retailer in the world. "Everything was pink flowers, frilly, really inexpensive...
...DIVORCE. Two of Hollywood’s hottest actresses team up in this romantic comedy with raunchy, satirical underpinnings. Naomi Watts stars as Roxanne, a just-divorced Parisian (and pregnant no less). Isabel, played by Kate Hudson, arrives to cheer up her distraught, hormone-addled stepsister. Both drop their worries and emotional baggage, living it up and enjoying the French nightlife. Romantic implications are obvious. Watch this Hollywood-French-farce hybrid for its bedroom humor, international wisecracks, and romance. Le Divorce screens 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, and 9:45 p.m. on Friday, August...
...notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by Richard Wagner in his opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded...