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...amazed to read that Bernanke's wife "makes him do the dishes and take out the trash." Perhaps you should have included the corollary that he makes her cook? Or perhaps there is no coercion, but each has accepted certain responsibilities within their marriage. Elizabeth Corwin, BERLIN...
...scandal seemed ready-made for the British tabloids. First, Peter Robinson, the head of Northern Ireland's government, admitted that his 60-year-old wife Iris had embarked on an affair with a teenager two years ago. Then came the allegations that she had obtained $80,000 from two property developers to help her lover set up a café and that Peter Robinson, upon learning of the deal, failed to report it. Finally, following days of lurid headlines, the political fallout began...
...marriage - hang on, that's not the moment - in which the husband Tim, a high-powered lawyer, is cursed with a bizarre affliction: every once in a while, without warning, he starts to walk compulsively, and he can't stop until he falls down from exhaustion. He and his wife Jane have tried dozens of cures, but nothing works. Then, a quarter of the way through the book, they get a letter from a famous neurologist, an Oliver Sacks type who kindly and compassionately explains how interested he is in Tim's case...
...wise Desirée, singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She divorced Brooks in 1977, struggled with alcoholism in the '80s. She had summed up her two marriages by observing that "when I wanted to be a wife, Jimmy [Granger] would say, 'I just want you to be pretty.' And when I wanted to cook, Richard would say, 'Forget the cooking. You've been trained to act - so act!' " So act she kept doing, with skill and delicacy and diminished visibility...
...director to want still more booty, he may well reap gold, in the form of statuettes for Best Picture and Best Director, on Oscar night. At the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17, Cameron was a semisurprise winner as Best Director, besting his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker. That exemplary Iraq war drama, which won most of the critics' awards, earned just $12.7 million in its domestic release and $3.4 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $16.1 million - less than Avatar amassed at the North American box office...