The Stepford Wives.The Stepford Wives (Dreamworks, 2004). Ira Levin's 1975 satire about a suburb populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. by a fleet of Mrs. Barbies blasted away at male insecurities about the feminist revolution. Paul Rudnick's remake re·make tr.v. re·made , re·mak·ing, re·makes To make again or anew. n. 1. The act of remaking. 2. Something in remade form, especially a new version of an earlier movie or song. has gone with humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , poking fun at the anti-feminist backlash that has so many men wishing they had married mom. Fired "IV executive Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) has fallen out of the boardroom into a bedroom community where women do aerobics in heels; her friend Bobbie Markowitz (Bette Midler Bette Midler (born December 1 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedienne, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M. She is named after the actress Bette Davis although Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. ) has written a blockbuster savaging her own mom for millions of readers. Why would anyone want to turn these ladies into robots? *** |
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