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Women scorned, women afraid of being scorned--and some curious men along for the ride--are helping The First Wives Club break records. Its $18.9 million opening weekend was the highest ever for a so-called women's film and captured more than one-third of the movie-going market from competition such as Bruce Willis' Last Man Standing. The characters played by Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler are like the Furies crossed with the Three Stooges--college friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners...
Turner says she entered the contest because she was "curious, but in addition to that, I was somewhat challenged. I was always disciplined in my piano practice and disciplined in school...
This is a curious time: the people had created the government in their image, which is the way it is supposed to work, and then they waved goodbye...
...speak. But in the end, the choice was mainly symbolic. Readers get both cover-length packages in this week's magazine. As we continue a year of covering down-to-earth politics with a passion, we'll likewise over the coming months (and years and decades) keep our curious eyes on the doings of any other cohabitants of the cosmos. It's all part of our own temporal mission to tell the tales and synthesize the complexities of our fascinating world--and universe...
...lonely souls, and the possibility of blubbering breakdowns and bondings hovers constantly over the movie. But its young writer-director, Lisa Krueger, making her first feature, will have none of that. Her compassion is as unforced as the comedy that is also implicit in the creation of this curious menage. She has a capacity that far more experienced--or should one say more wearily knowing?--filmmakers lack: she trusts her tale, whatever its improbabilities; she also trusts her characters to find their way, in their own sweet time, to such awkward accommodations as they eventually make; and, most important...