Publisher's Weekly has a review of her latest, Queen Takes King, and they liked it well enough, though its characters are "celluloid" and totally unbelievable. It tells the tale of an aging ballet dancer who divorces a real estate mogul and oh gosh how are they going to figure out how to still be rich without each other.

After 25 years of marriage-most of it squandered on unspoken disappointment, stifled grief and wasted affection-ex-ballerina Cynthia Power and real estate tycoon hubby Jackson are headed for divorce. At the same time, Jackson's latest condo project is teetering and Carolyn's ballet board is in turmoil. Though lesbian daughter Vivienne counsels Cynthia to "think three moves ahead," Jackson, torn between his ambitious and reckless lover and imperious father, is staying in the game by sheer grit.

So let's see if we can unpack this dense allegory. The ballet dancer—free, creative, supported by chic lesbo daughter—is the saintly Levangie, right? And the gritty one with the reckless relationship is the insane-haired Grazer? Phew. Maybe the ballet dancer demands seven thousand dollars a month for "fine art," too. Or, maybe, because of creative license and stuff, it's like six thousand instead.

We're sure that divorces send both gentlemen and ladies, both rich and poor, reeling—it's the end of an error, after all—but if Levangie continues to insist to solely mine the shallow depths of rich divorcée ennui, we might start thinking she's some sort of opportunist.

Either way, we encourage you to pick up the tome, which drops in June, lest the poor Levangie be forced to scrape by on her $1 million-a-month divorce settlement. The poor dear.

Grazer's cash haul per year is $28 million, 13 mil of which came from just his production co. salary. The rest comes from "corporate distributions ... perquisites ... as well as interest and dividend income."

Gigi is asking for nearly a million per month in child and spousal support ($988,184), including a grand per month for "furniture and appliance replacement" at their Hawaii house. She spends $7K for "fine art" every month ... just for their NYC pad. But here's the good news for Brian — she's only asking for $42 a month to clean the New York pad.

It's really up to the individual to decide when the moment is right to pull open the bedroom drapes and let the sun shine onto a new chapter in one's life. Perhaps it takes a grueling, 28-day laptop Wack-A-Grazer marathon—with breaks only to address basic bodily functions and scrape some sustenance out from the bottom of a frosting container—to emerge from the other side fully intact, confident that $1 million plus cable series residuals will offer enough of a mental cushion to hit the Hollywood husband circuit again.

• Brian Grazer's Got a Lot of Gs to Deal With [TMZ]

Laurie David (soon to be ex-wife of Larry David) was, of course, the ringleader. She started reading about global warming years ago and decided — after watching the SUV trend take hold — that she had to act. She called her friend Elizabeth Wiatt, wife of super-agent Jim Wiatt, and together they formed the National Resources Defense Council Action Committee.

They got all their friends involved: Gigi Grazer (married to Brian Grazer), Gwen McCaw (wife of John McCaw of McCaw Communications), actress Heather Thomas (wife of entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham), Colleen Bell, Sofie Howard and Meyer. The group held fundraisers and traveled to D.C. (All the husbands got involved as well.)

No one was going to ignore them. (Want to know why Al Gore is now the international green poster boy? It's because David discovered his global warming slide show and wouldn't rest until Hollywood had made a documentary about his efforts.)

The story was filed, of course, before today's history-making announcement that Gore had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, arguably rendering the ex-Mrs. Larry the most influential starter wife in modern history. It's a remarkable chain of events that, while perhaps setting the bar unrealistically high, should still inspire her less proactive peers to reach further than the status quo—which for many of them consists of shouting from an upstairs window to the housekeeper lugging garbage across the lawn, "I think there's a Whole Foods bulk granola container in there that I forgot to put in the blue bin! Could you? Thaaaanks!"

• CAUSE CÉLÈBRE: Hollywood wife has a way with green [LAT]

• Whack An Ex [The Starter Wife]
• Previously: The Grazers Call It Quits: June 2007 Edition [Defamer]

A rep for the couple said, "They remain good friends. This decision was both mutual and amicable, and they plan to share custody of their two children."

Rumors of the split surfaced two weeks ago just as Gigi's new "Starter Wife" debuted on USA. The show stars Debra Messing as a spouse whose powerful studio head husband leaves her for a younger woman, but he eventually begs for a reconciliation.

The heavily promoted miniseries had some in Hollywood wondering if the Grazers' breakup could be a case of life imitating art - but we're assured there are no third parties involved. [...]

"They have been together for a total of 16 years," a pal said. "No one can say they didn't give it their best shot." If they do follow through with a divorce, friends said there will be no hard feelings - they have an iron-clad prenup agreement and both are successful and "make their own money."

The assurance that "no third parties" were involved in the relationship's disintegration is little more than a transparent effort to keep things tidy in the press during a turbulent time, as longtime Imagine collaborator Russell Crowe has brazenly conducted a torrid, public affair with Grazer's beautiful mind for some time. And while the pair say they'll jointly care for their children, it's unclear how they will arrange for the custody of their beloved "Jesus Christ, Hunky Ikea Carpenter of Love" project; hopefully, they'll raise this product of their once-loving union without acrimony, avoiding nasty fights in which Brian threatens to put it in turnaround the first time Gigi conveniently "forgets" to bring by a new draft for his weekend visitation.

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