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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - Posts

  • Bad news for girls who cut loose . . .


    I thought of one Emily. Little Children -- smart woman cuts loose without regard for her responsibilities. Allows her child to gallivant with pedophiles as a result. Read More...
  • Nikita: The Fun-Loving Spy


    Good question , Emily. The best example of a driven yet playful female character I can think of is Nikita in La Femme Nikita . She's a spy/assassin who's just as tough as the toughest guys, but what she really wants to do is put her gun away and goof Read More...
  • Movie Girls Who Have Fun?


    Meghan's great lament about the humorless fate of the women in Knocked Up has me thinking: In what movies has Hollywood come through for us and provided what we might indeed want more of--women who are smart and also know how to play and cut loose? It's Read More...
  • Birther's Remorse?


    Juliet, your post on the Dutch couple who abandoned their adopted child is a nice bookend to this story I'd wanted to blog about: According to (also!) the Daily Mail , the world's oldest mother—she gave birth to her sons last year at 66—is seriously ill. Read More...
  • A New Way to "Go Dutch"


    Via the Daily Mail , a Dutch couple living abroad abandoned a 7-year-old South Korean girl that they had adopted as a baby. Apparently, the couple took in the girl after failing to conceive. Subsequently, they had two biological children, and then decided Read More...
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