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...movies, all happy couples are alike: they don't exist. The cinematic notion of a contended man and wife, gliding through life on a cloud of kisses, kind words and double martinis, pretty much died out with Nick and Nora Charles 60 years ago. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the crime caper with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is about as close as you could come lately, and they kept trying to kill each other. Maybe wedded happiness is considered static, undramatic, a minuet of compromises. It could also be that depicting the satisfaction of people over 30 just doesn't appeal...
...That, anyway, is the conclusion to be drawn from two new indie films opening today in New York and, a little later, around the country. In the just-OK Married Life, a cheating husband schemes to be permanently rid of his longtime wife. Snow Angels, the one you should track down, has nothing but unhappy marriages, some of them slowly, painfully, disintegrating, and one ready to blow...
With a sweep of four more states on March 4, John McCain officially captured the delegates needed to become the GOP nominee. By noon the next day, he and his wife were at the White House having lunch with onetime rival President George W. Bush and enjoying the embrace--albeit belated--of his party...
...Number of roses an Iranian court has ordered a man to pay his wife for her dowry. The couple have been married 10 years, but Iranian law holds that a wife can claim her dowry at any point in the marriage. The court has seized the man's home until he pays...
...Arkansas state legislator once said of Bill Clinton that he would pat you on the back while he urinated down your leg. The corollary for Clinton's wife Hillary could be that she will tell the world how honored she is to share a stage with Barack Obama even as she's gearing up to smash him. When it comes to politics, the Clinton philosophy is simple: It's war, and wars are for winning. Bill put it this way, back in 1981: "When someone is beating you over the head with a hammer, don't sit there and take...