French Comedy 'Potiche' Mixes Laughs With Social Message
For women, and men too, weary of nuance and yearning for a straightforward liberated woman to cheer and a tyrannical and pompous husband to deplore, the French comedy "Potiche" is for you. Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in this delightful confection with a social message. Set in 1977, Deneuve is a stay-at-home "trophy wife" treated like an exalted maid by her sexist pig of a husband who's got a mistress on the side. The husband, played by Fabrice Luchini, struts around and issues orders and comes across as an all-around fool while his wife busies herself catering to his every ...
Gabrielle Giffords Listed Among 15 Most Vulnerable Democrats by DCCC
It has only been four months since the midterm elections, but Democrats are already building a safety net under their most vulnerable members. Of 15 lawmakers dubbed "Frontline Members" by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, one is Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. She, of course, is recovering in a Houston rehab facility from a gunshot wound to the head. Fellow Democrats are looking out for her, getting fundraising underway that she can't do personally -- and not presuming there will be a big sympathy vote carrying Giffords to reelection. Politics has a way of turning nasty when ...
Grand Jury Investigating John Edwards Expected to Report Soon
It's hard to feel too sorry for John Edwards, once a golden boy in Democratic politics and now scorned for the way he betrayed his wife and made her last years harder than they should have been. Elizabeth Edwards succumbed to her cancer last year, and in the months since, Edwards has kept a very low profile, moving back into the family home in Chapel Hill, N.C., that he had left when he and Elizabeth separated. But according to an exhaustively reported story in The New York Times, Edwards' self-inflicted solitude could soon come to an end. Related Stories For John ...
Screen Actors Guild in Solidarity With Wisconsin Protesters
I've been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since the early 1990s when the McLaughlin Group had a cameo appearance in the movie "Dave." Hollywood director Ivan Reitman came to Washington to film us, and when the lines written for us failed to elicit the spirited debate the group is known for, Reitman went to Plan B. He described the plot of the movie, which has a president falling into a coma and a lookalike taking his place, and the confusion that ensues. He told us to talk about it like we would any other issue, and that's what we did. At the end, John McLaughin, creator and host of the ...
Arizona Bill Would Ban Abortion for Gender or Race Reasons
In Washington and in state capitols around the country, newly empowered conservative majorities are introducing and passing a variety of laws aimed at curbing abortion rights. Much of it is straightforward, but in Arizona, anti-abortion advocates have titled their bill after two historic figures, a suffragist and a civil rights icon, presumably to make their legislation more attractive to more people. The "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011" handily passed the Arizona House on Monday and is expected to win Senate approval and then the signature of ...
Marching in Madison: Are Union Workers Welfare Queens, or Friends and Neighbors?
On cable television for a time this week, it looked like Cairo had come to Madison, as up to 70,000 people demonstrating for their rights marched on the Statehouse in Wisconsin. Fourteen Democratic lawmakers fled the Capitol, crossing state lines to avoid giving a Republican majority in the state Senate the quorum needed to pass legislation that would curb the collective bargaining rights of public employees and mandate they pay more for their health care and pension benefits. The clash over workers' rights and benefits sparked the kind of demonstrations that the liberal capital had not seen ...
Gabby Giffords and Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Power of Friendship
As everybody pulls for Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords to fully recover from the bullet wound to her head, it's no accident that Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was there with Giffords for two milestones. She was in the hospital room in Tucson when Giffords opened her eyes for the first time, and early this week, Wasserman Schultz was in Houston, where Giffords is undergoing rehabilitation, when she spoke for the first time, asking for toast along with her oatmeal. Their friendship is not political, it's personal, and Wasserman Schultz spent Sunday and Monday in Houston with Giffords, ...
South Dakota Lawmakers Push Bill for Mandatory Gun Ownership
Americans feel strongly about protecting the right to own a gun, and many feel equally strongly about their right to forgo health insurance. One doesn't necessarily follow the other, but there's enough of a correlation that in South Dakota five legislators have introduced legislation that would make it mandatory for anyone who reaches the age of 21 to purchase a firearm that they would then use for their self-defense. It's known as the "Act to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self-defense of themselves and others." In political terms, it's a smackdown to ...
How Sargent Shriver's Family Helped Him Cope With Alzheimer's
In reading the many tributes to Sargent Shriver and his generosity of spirit throughout his long record of public service, the one point I don't think has been adequately made is how he and his family handled his Alzheimer's disease. Shriver, who died Tuesday at age 95, revealed in 2003 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It didn't dim his cheerful outlook on life, and his family made sure that he was front and center in everything they did. At events for Special Olympics and its offshoot, Best Buddies, founded by Anthony Shriver to help people with intellectual disabilities, "Sarge" ...
For John Edwards, Indictment in the Balance as Grand Jury Wraps Up Its Investigation
Just when you thought there was nothing more to say about John Edwards and his fall from grace, there's word that the grand jury weighing evidence against him for more than a year is expected to soon conclude its work. Then we'll know whether the two-time presidential candidate will be indicted on that evidence, or if federal prosecutors will close down the investigation into his finances that has dogged him since late 2008. The scandal that damaged Edwards' reputation and destroyed his marriage -- his affair with Rielle Hunter and the child he fathered with her even as his wife, Elizabeth, ...
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