Word: supermoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to be a voice for working women, to get the same kind of roar from them that Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor did from their subgroups. I see myself as a role model for people left of normal, a three-dimensional woman, not a token, not a supermom. I'm trying to show that there's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but that there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. Motherhood emotionally and physically changes a woman. Your head and your body get connected...
Talk about having it all. Jessica Lange is juggling three golden balls: a life with playwright-actor Sam Shepard, status as a celebrity supermom (two children by Shepard, one by Mikhail Baryshnikov) and, when she can make time, movie stardom. Is Lange's part-time job as exemplary actress a hobby, as football is for Bo Jackson? If so, it can be no less punishing or rewarding, because Lange -- any actress, really, in today's Streepstakes -- must find the core of feminism, of flinty self-fulfillment, in a modern movie role. No wimpering-wife parts, thank you. Just Joan...
...roles as wife, mother and natural stunner. But what if Alex is a creature of insatiable lust and leeching possessiveness? And if Dan's amiability has made him too soft to resist Alex's attentions or, later, to protect his family from her vengeance? And if Beth, supermom in disguise, is roused to confront the beast Alex has become? Oh, and what if somebody made a movie about this trio of '80s Everypersons...
...calls on the job from Daughter Alexandra. TIME's Olivia Stewart drives from her San Francisco office to Oakland during lunch to ferry her daughter from summer school to the afternoon sitter. Says Atlanta Reporter Joyce Leviton: "These working mothers are the heroines of our time." Nadasdy rejects the supermom tag. "My success depends on my family's support and love," she says. Mothers are not alone in doing double duty. Staff Writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt regularly cooks breakfast for his two-year-old daughter Elizabeth, while Wife Mary gets some extra shut-eye. "It's my favorite part...
...QUESTION that Schumer leaves underdeveloped is how the women's college experiences influenced, for good or bad, their choices and priorities later in life. Each left college believing she could balance marriage, family and a high-powered career. But the shattering of the Supermom ideal hardly is a new or exclusively Radcliffe phenomenon...