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Everybody you meet at Apple will echo that precise sentiment, in almost Stepford-like unison. Not only have they all drunk the Kool-Aid; they all have the same favorite flavor. They're on a hot streak, and they know it. ("The Sony guys are over there across the street with binoculars," jokes a senior vice president. "They rented space on the fourth floor." High-tech trash talk!) It's almost eerie: Apple employees all like one another, and they have a strong sense that they are the chosen of the earth, and they're not going...
Except not. Filming ran long on The Stepford Wives, causing Kidman to bow out and leaving Liman to scramble for a new Mrs. Smith. "Which is crazy," says Liman, "because now I'm trying to convince Brad to stay in the movie, when he's the one who sent me the script! I could just see the whole film coming undone." Liman wound up casting Jolie, who was in England doing publicity for Tomb Raider II, over the phone...
Laura can't win over the Bush haters. But a comedy routine that was at times racy is a reminder that Laura is not a founding member of Focus on the Family. Whatever hard-core Democrats may imagine, she has never been a nodding Stepford wife. Her bookshelves contain Gore Vidal and The Da Vinci Code. In Austin, Texas, she had out-there, colorful friends like Kinky Friedman, the writer-musician who toured with his band the Texas Jewboys. She told TIME last year that she had no problem with a gay couple staying at the White House, although...
Jessie Sullivan is 42--"just old enough for the bottom to start falling out of things," as one character puts it--and suffocating in a Stepford-perfect marriage. "I lived molded to the smallest space possible," she says, "my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers." When word arrives that her mom has cut off her index finger in a fit of religious mania, Jessie rushes off to take care of her, back to the tiny island off the coast of South Carolina where Jessie grew up. (She's secretly grateful for any excuse...
Dad’s DVD gift can be none other than the remake of The Stepford Wives. Though the film has a lot of difficulty presenting women as anything but bimbo-blonde housewives or bull-dyke businesswomen, and thus fits nicely into a shameful tradition of post-feminist narratives that ultimately regress to gender stereotypes and thinly-veiled Victorianism, Dad can still learn a few lessons from the film. For example, don’t turn your wife into a sex robot because she is occasionally bothersome. Most importantly, Christopher Walken is actually a machine, carefully programmed by Glenn Close...