May 12, 2008
Michelle Triola (formerly Marvin): Once burned but twice foolish?
The Michelle Triola Marvin 1977 palimony suit against star Lee Marvin appeared to exemplify two things: 1) The way so many people in contemporary American have abandoned a recorded marriage for the informality of cohabitation and 2) The inferiority of cohabitation to marriage.
Although Michelle Triola Marvin had changed her last name to that of the [...]
May 10, 2008
On Becoming Fearless by Arianna Huffington, reviewed by Denise Noe
Denise Noe’s note: The book reviewed here is oriented primarily toward girls and women so some readers are likely to criticize me for putting this review on Men’s News Daily. However, I do not believe that it is irrelevant because men have wives, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, daughters, and other female relatives as well as female [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: Activism, Analysis, Book Review, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Families, Family, Feminism, Health, Mating, Marriage & Divorce, Media, Politics, Psychology, Sex & Relationships, Sex and Metropolis, Society, Vox Populi — Denise Noe @ 6:29 pmMay 8, 2008
Robert Duvall, Gary Sinise, Hollywood Stars to Celebrate American GIs at Film Festival
Robert Duvall, Gary Sinise, Hollywood Stars to Celebrate American GIs at Film Festival
by Jim Kouri, CPP
Gary Sinise and Robert Duvall will lead a star-studded festival to be held May 14-18, 2008 at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.
Overall, the five-day festival will present both classic and premier films honoring the nation’s men [...]
May 6, 2008
How Bobby’s Girl refutes radical feminism
Back in the 1970s, there was a song I especially liked listening to when it played on an oldies station. At the time, I considered myself a feminist but knew this song would be anathema to most feminists. I couldn’t help liking it anyway and I still like it.
The song is “Bobby’s Girl” which was [...]
May 5, 2008
Why the cougar phenomenon is more jarring than older man-younger woman romances
There has been quite a bit of publicity recently about “cougars,” older women in romances, sexual liaison, and/or marriages with much younger men. Some people wonder why this should be more jarring that its more common and acceptable reverse of older men in similar relationships with much younger women.
In fact, there are reasons that people [...]
May 4, 2008
Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
In Primitive Love, Jayne Mansfield, sex bomb, plays Jayne Mansfield the noted cultural anthropologist. Yep. If you think the premise is odd, you’re right, and the movie made from it is a genuine curiosity.
Looking her usual glamorous self, Jayne Mansfield checks into a hotel where she is to [...]
May 3, 2008
Successful authors reveal the keys to writing well!
This was originally published several years ago.
Celebrated author Anne Rivers Siddons, who wrote Heartbreak Hotel, Homeplace, Peachtree Road, and King’s Oak believes that “good writing is just about the most subjective thing” there is and “feels she is always at the edge of writing well but never succeeds.”
Now “deep into a [...]
May 1, 2008
Mathematics and Humor: The surprising connections
Many people, especially the math-avoidant, are likely to look askance at the title of John Allen Paulos’ “Mathematics and Humor.” Mathematics and humor! What could they possibly have in common?
Quite a bit, as Paulos points out in this unusual, educational, and (yes) enjoyable volume. “Both mathematics and humor are forms of intellectual play,” [...]
April 26, 2008
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
Reviewed by Denise Noe
John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor, is understandably dismayed at the widespread ignorance of his subject, an ignorance which he calls “innumeracy.” He is also dismayed by the fact that so many of his fellow Americans are math-anxious and math-averse and that [...]
April 24, 2008
FOX Plans Reality-TV “Bad Dads” Colosseum “Lynching” of Poor Men
I was astonished to see that FOX Television, in its nauseating quest for ever tawdry reality-TV shows, plans to turn the problems of poor fathers into an extermination in the Fox Colosseum.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox tagged Jim Durham, Director of the “National Child Support Center”, as the leading lion of the event. [...]
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