<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, the marrying kind]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, the marrying kind]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/themarryingkind http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/themarryingkind <![CDATA[All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans]]> The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Francis Ford Coppola is a big fat guy who sits in his California mansion, drinking wine and thinking up movie ideas. He is also an astute critic of marriage. His problem? If his wife works, who will cook and clean?

That's a dilemma he mulls in a new Village Voice interview, in which he says that he's tried for all 46 years of his marriage to figure out who will clean the house and make him all the roasted suckling meats he likes to gulp down with his wine if his wife is too busy doing art projects:

More difficult is my wife, because she has many ambitions and talents, but who's going to be my wife? Who's going to fix the house up and make it nice? It's more difficult with a wife because there becomes a job vacancy if your wife is going to go off and become an artist. Who's going to be the wife? We both need one. I'll do the cooking, but who's going to worry about the household and stuff? That's been a very big, frustrating aspect. I've been married 46 years, and it's never been resolved.

Take my wife, please. But leave the maid! Opposite marriage wins again.

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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5277737&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[As Usual, Tobey Maguire is Just Good Enough For His Next Project]]> We've been meta-ed to within an inch of our lives this morning by news that upstart producer Tobey Maguire and resurgent Warner Independent Pictures have optioned rights to Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, Lori Gottlieb's controversial article from last month's Atlantic Monthly. A 40-year-old single mother's admonition to take whatever you can get on the romance front (soon to be a book, natch, which won't likely please our sisters-in-blog over at Jezebel), the story vaguely reminds us of a certain actor's escalation to marquee status — a milquetoast, smoldering dork opposite A-listers like Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett. Any guesses?

Anyway, we digress. The point is that Mr. Good Enough gets things done in the end, and for his part, Maguire's maneuver with Warner Independent was a development we wouldn't have seen coming a month ago as the mini-major circled the drain in the New Line cinema purge. Considering their expressions of good faith and longevity, our only unresolved question is why Gottlieb is settling for such sound partners. Shouldn't she have eloped with Harvey Weinstein before the magazine even hit newsstands?

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