Monday, November 29, 2010

Jaws of Dee

I apologize for a sweeping generalization, but I think no one can top the Jews when it comes to breaking up. The drama, the heartbreak, the retaliation, I don't think us Muslims (I'm counting myself loosely) can match the flair for pyrotechnics.

Take Woody Allen, and a number of his wives/mistresses/girlfriends. And there's Nora Ephron.

Nora Ephron has a new book out where she, again, talks about her marriage to Carl Bernstein. It ended in 1980. They were married for 5 years.

When I was growing up, all you heard about was Watergate, and how brilliantly that was investigated. Now you hear about this larger than life character who had a very public affair with Margaret Jay, daughter of the British Prime Minister. Here's the story, in short:
...goes to the Georgetown jeweler to have her ring reset and the jeweler asks her how she liked the necklace. Of course, that rascally husband hasn’t bought his wife a necklace while she was in the hospital giving birth to their second child; it’s a gift for his mistress.
That she can still milk it 30 years later, you have to give it to her.