2010, Samantha Stevens Style
Season 2 of "Bewitched" is now available on DVD at our local video store. I rented it because I knew that my kids and their developmentally disabled aunt would enjoy watching it during her recent holiday visit. Maybe I was hankering for a little magic in my life, too. Five minutes into the first episode, I was conjuring a Woman UP post comparing "Bewitched" to "Mad Men," both set in the 1960s, commuting distance from Madison Avenue. The shows feature brainy, shirt-waisted blondes married to advertising executives who must endure boozy, boorish, cigar smoking, white-haired bosses. Between ...
'Up in the Air': Clooney, the Recession and . . . Pupating Insects?
"Up in the Air" is a new film in which the recession plays a starring role. George Clooney gives a brilliant performance as the irascible corporate hatchet man Ryan Bingham, who spends more than 300 days a year traveling to various cities firing people for bosses who lack the courage to "downsize." ...
The Gift of Listening: No, No, No on Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
I'm doing it, although I swore I never would, that insidious thing where halfway through someone's sentence, I say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah . . ." to signal my understanding of his or her point. I've also begun to check my e-mail messages at long stoplights and DVR "Grey's Anatomy," not to avoid commercials but to skip to the story lines that interest me most. Add some holiday-induced freneticism into the mix, and I'm yeah-yeah-yeahing like I've tethered an invisible remote control to my palm. ...
Bad Mothers? What Are We Talking About?
I read Sandra Tsing Loh's Atlantic article "On Being a Bad Mother" because, well, all of my WomanUp colleagues were doing it. Although I appreciate Loh's facility with language, humor and shimmering intelligence, her article and the response to it reinforced my concerns about the bad-mom conversation. ...
'Precious': A Movie That Cracks Open Your Heart
I can't say that I looked forward to watching the movie "Precious," the gritty tale of a black, 350-pound, HIV-positive, 16-year-old rape and incest victim, but I was practically first in line for its Washington, D.C., opening. ...
Halloween Reform: A Postmortem
Not to be a killjoy, but after hearing on NPR last week that the average American child collects 10 pounds of candy every Halloween, I decided to heed the words of Mahatma Ghandhi and be the change I wish to see in the world. ...
Untold Stories of the Olympics, Told by a Pro
Last night I invited my young children to stay up past their bedtime to watch Showtime with me. Typically, my husband and I wait until they're fast asleep before we indulge in recorded episodes of "Weeds," but at 7 p.m., with jammies donned, we tuned into "Bud Greenspan Presents: Beijing 2008 -- America's Olympic Glory."One frame of video zapped me back to the green couch in my parents' den where my dad fiddled with the television antenna to get clear reception of Greenspan's 22-part Emmy Award-winning documentary series, "The Olympiad." I learned from listening to David Perry's distinctive ...
Cloudy With a Likelihood of Obesity
So we've established that obesity is a super-sized health problem for Americans. According to a study published in July, the obesity rates have increased in 23 states and declined in none. What kind of danger does this pose for both adults and children? And what can we to do about it? ...
Don Draper and James Grady's Dante Reflect Our Own Infernos
Soon my 30-day Netflix trial will end, and I will have caught up on Seasons 1 and 2 of "Mad Men." While time consuming and a bit jarring, simultaneously watching old and new episodes of the show illuminates the breadcrumbs the writers dropped to lead us to Don Draper's current juicy pickle. ...
Tall Cotton for Short Stories
My Woman Up colleagues had much to say when the New York Times ran a short story on its op-ed page this summer. While we didn't agree where the story should run, we did uncover a shared allegiance to the form, and a hope that more mainstream media publications would follow suit. ...
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