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If Your Husband Invites You to See 'Eat Pray Love,' Meditate on It
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyWhen a man claiming to be my husband asked if I wanted to see "Eat Pray Love" with him this weekend, of course I played along. That the best-selling book was una stronzata of the first order hadn't kept me from enjoying it, and I hoped the movie would be bad in a good way, too. We were living in Rome when "EPL" author Liz Gilbert was eating her way across town, so we were sure to enjoy hearing the Italian and catching a glimpse of the afternoon light, right? Plus, I think I heard there might be some good-looking food in this movie. The "Pray" portion of the program, set in an Indian ashram, ...
My Intimate Evening With Elizabeth Gilbert (and 750 Adoring Fans)
By Linda Kulman - Politics DailyOne of my acquaintances believes the runaway international best-seller, "Eat, Pray, Love," should have been named "Starvation, Celibacy, Death" to better represent what author Elizabeth Gilbert experiences in its pages. Clearly the multiple pizzas Gilbert devours in Italy and her budding romance with Felipe in Bali don't satisfy my friend's appetites. But for every Elizabeth Gilbert naysayer, there are many more fans -- 750 of whom sold out her Washington, D.C., reading last week -- the second stop in Gilbert's multi-city tour of "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage." See my ...
'Staying True'? Most Marriage Memoirs Do Anything But
By Lizzie Skurnick - Politics DailyMary, I was interested to see your post about the release of Jenny Sanford's memoir being pushed up to February. (Who knew she was writing a memoir?) I'd prefer that it be pushed back a few years, or that it were never written at all. Although you can't make assumptions about what leads anyone to put pen to paper -- perhaps Sanford is a secret memoirist who's been itching to blow the lid off her marriage since the honeymoon -- it seems far more likely that this is yet another contribution to the scorned-wives genre, where the spouse offers insta-insights for the benefit of an enthusiastic ...
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