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...Americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis--not to be confused with osteoarthritis, which through normal wear and tear eventually stiffens the joints of virtually everybody who lives past age 65 or so. Rheumatoid arthritis, by contrast, is a disease of the immune system that often strikes people in their 30s and 40s, and sometimes earlier. It is a hot area of research right now because doctors believe a successful approach to rheumatoid arthritis could lead them to treatments for other immune disorders, including lupus and multiple sclerosis...
...argue that interest in news has declined mainly because the news is less interesting today--or at least less crucial to people's lives. For much of this century, the news was dominated by stories that had a direct, often life or death impact: the Great Depression in the '30s, World War II in the '40s, the cold war and threat of nuclear Armageddon in the '50s, civil unrest and Vietnam in the '60s. In just one eventful year, 1968, there were two assassinations, of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; the Tet offensive in Vietnam; black-power protests...
...from Lucy to Roseanne. Those actresses who stayed in films found themselves playing caricatures. Davis devolved into a harpy, sharing the horrific What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Joan Crawford and a rat. Younger actresses took the bimbo route. Both groups were deprived of the intelligence of the '30s, the malefic grandeur of the '40s. Movies were now a man's world. If women wanted to survive as more than sluts or nutty aunts, they had to be as burly and aggressive...
First Wives is only a movie, and not nearly a perfect one. And its makers are, darn it, men. But it restores a little balance to phallocentric Hollywood. It says women can thrive in the good old '30s way: by being smart, sexy, human. Best of all, it doesn't stand alone, a defiant Thelma without her Louise; instead, it mingles with its sister films in a proud, growing community. If women can create, star in and see more movies like this one, that will be their sweetest revenge...
...unkempt-for-their-age pals and hangers-on, but the cast and creative team have undergone major overhauls since the show's beginnings. The current characters have little chemistry and seem like odd, unfathomable choices to support DeGeneres. Why Ellen, a neurotic but sensible woman in her late 30s, rooms with her temperamental frat-boyish cousin Spence (Jeremy Piven) in her Los Angeles apartment is anyone's guess...