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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, ...
'Eat Pray Love': Escape for the Common Woman
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWhen I lived abroad I used to say, and I still somewhat believe, Oprah-ishly, that I was my Best Self living away. I shed all the weight that I carry around with me day to day both literally -- I've never been thinner -- and metaphorically: all the anxiety and trivial machinations over ephemera lifted. Abroad I felt purer, somehow.Truth is, life on the road, or life as an expat is somehow bigger, bolder, sharper, keener -- the highs higher, the lows lower, than in regular life. Why wouldn't you choose it, if you could? But try to explain that to friends back home and it comes across as ...
'Eat Pray Love' Author to Lobby for Gay Immigrants
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 13) -- The author of the runaway best-seller "Eat Pray Love," whose foreign-born lover was barred from permanently living with her in the U.S., will go to Capitol Hill next month to lobby for changing immigration laws to allow gays and lesbians to sponsor their partners from other countries. Elizabeth Gilbert, whose memoir was made into a film starring Julia Roberts that opens today, will announce today that she will join gay rights activists to push for passage of the Uniting American Families Act. The measure would allow lesbian and gay Americans to sponsor their ...
Opinion: My 'Eat, Pray, Love' Year
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- Most women I know can't afford to eat in Italy, pray in India and love in Bali. But when I read Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love," I knew I had to attempt my own version. I just had to do it on the cheap. In 2008, I was recently divorced and at a major turning point in my writing career, and I had been unraveling for a blurry couple of years, unsure of what I wanted to do or how I wanted to live. Laureen Reed Katrina Kittle's new book is titled "The Blessings of the Animals." I found myself taking stock. How could I turn my divorce into an opportunity instead of a loss? ...
'Eat, Pray, Love' Author to Lobby Congress for Bi-National Gay-Spouse Rights
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyCall it "Eat, Pray, Love, Lobby." On Sept. 30, Elizabeth Gilbert -- author of the monster bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love" and the heroine of the gorpy new Julia Roberts-Javier Bardem flick of the same name -- will follow the path trod by countless other celebs seeking civic enlightenment: She'll lobby House and Senate members on Capitol Hill. Gilbert hopes to persuade lawmakers to pass the Uniting American Families Act, giving foreign-born, same-sex spouses of gay and lesbian U.S. citizens the residency rights enjoyed by straight, bi-national married couples such as Gilbert and "Felipe," the ...
Are Uppity Women Paving the Way for Gay Marriage, or Closing the Door?
By Helena Andrews - Politics Daily"If you don't like gay marriage, blame straight people. They're the ones who keep having gay babies." That's the new virtual bumper sticker slapped onto my mother Frances' Facebook page. Frances, a lesbian, is unmarried for three reasons 1) it ain't legal -- yet; 2) she hasn't found an acceptable "mate"; and 3) because who the heck wants to get married nowadays anyway? I'm considering coming up with a commitment-phobe catch phrase of my own -- "Marriage is as marriage does." In nearly every state save Hawaii (one of the first to question the constitutionality of banning gay marriage in 1993) ...
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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