In 1962, Edward Albee debuted his play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” to stunned audiences everywhere. We were not used to seeing a married couple fight in mixed company. The play was unsettling, audacious, and successful.
Continue reading → Trilling, Albee and Pinter: On Marriage as a Competition
Janna and I aren’t big on formal gift giving. We have a saying that is frequently expressed in our marriage: “Every day is your birthday.” That doesn’t mean we’re wild spenders — or that giving a “gift” to each other requires spending money — but it does change our perspective on the “Mandatory Holidays” that drive greeting card sales and generate increased prices for dining out while lowering prices on consumer goods like clothing.
Continue reading → Love by the Calendar: Grift in the Holidays Scam
I have a good female friend who just celebrated her 33rd birthday. She, and about ten of her closest friends, got together in New York City to celebrate her day. After the cake and candy and catching-up and presents were finished, talk quickly turned personal as each woman in the room — all successful and all working good jobs and all well-educated and all touching their early 30’s alone in life in the Big City — realized they were all a failure at finding “Mr. Right” and settling down into a marriage and raising a family, even though that’s what they said they wanted more than anything.
Continue reading → Women, Stop Waiting: There is No Such Thing as Finding a Perfect Man
The Olympic Gold medal for the worst TV series of 2010 goes to Jerry Seinfeld’s horror of a new show, “The Marriage Ref.” How did such a cruel and nasty show make it out of production and on broadcast television?
In Kabul, Afghanistan, women are being newly incarcerated in their marriages even as the USA tries to free the country.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie are splitting up — and we champion the dissolution of their marriage because we never believed it was anything more than a publicity stunt to give Madonna a reason to use her fake British accent.
I have decided to shun Jerry Seinfeld and his stolen sycophant wife. He has a new bee movie coming out soon and I’m not going to see it because
I have come to believe Jerry is not a good person, he is morally corrupt, and he lacks a social understanding of ethical behavior in context. Jerry Seinfeld has become, for me, “the Barry Bonds of comedy” by denying the obvious to protect the ego. Here’s why.
Continue reading → Shunning Jerry Seinfeld and His Stolen Sycophant Wife