KathyS wrote:
Wrightly wrote: I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet but this story line reminds me of the new series on the USA network this summer called Starter Wife. The lead character
( Debra Messing from Will and Grace ) was married to a Hollywood big wig for ten years and he suddenly decided he didn't need her anymore. He wanted to be with a new young star. The wife is now snubbed by everyone in their circle of friends, restaurants, etc. She has become an outsider in an instant and needs to find a new identity. She only has a few true friends who have stayed with her. What was very ironic is that the creator of the show is a woman who has been married to a Hollywood big wig herself for ten years. Just last month I heard that they are divorcing. I wonder if she will get snubbed herself.
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Debbie, interesting! I wonder!
K.
Who knows, could be, but then again, Hollywood is so very different than anywhere in the "real" world lol. Most women who have made a name for themselves there, do ok after a divorce..it seems anyway, workwise they do. Sometimes in Hollywood its the man, The Mr Meryl Streep or whoever, who gets snubbed, know what I mean? Meryl Streep just hit me as a name because shes in a new movie i want to see Friday called Evening, some of you may have read the book. It looks good, lots of very famous women who I guess are family and friends who come together and straighten out their lives in their older ages with flashbacks of when they were all young together. That kind of thing I think. I will go just to see Meryl, Glenn Close and Vanessa Redgraves all in the same movie! lol but talking about comparisons, there is something else I think about this book in comparison with a book I just read that was suppose to be a coming of age book. The problem was with the ending, there was none. You dont know what the adult girl is doing or what happened to most of the people in the book or did she come away with anything better than the hard lessons she was learning in her youth so you were at the end looking for that "coming of age" chapter!
I dont think a coming of age book is just one about a youth growing up and how they turn out from the lessons they learned in childhood. I think that like in this book, and I think especially with women, we have coming of age stories that often start in our mid lives and at that time with older women to help us get there. I think sometimes we dont "come of age" until we "age" some, and then we learn more about ourselves and others than we ever knew before. In that regards, stories like these (and maybe the movie Evening, I will let you know LOL) are coming of age books for the mature adult woman and thats why we like them so much. Dot, thats what I liked about this book, besides a lot of other things of course, like the incredible humor. Its a great adult "coming of age" story.
Message Edited by vivico1 on 07-10-2007 02:37 PM
