Hey, ladies! Desperate for a mate and/or a father for your sinfully conceived rugrat? Well, pull up a Swiss ball, and listen to NPR’s Lori Gottlieb!
“Don’t worry about passion or intense connection. Don’t nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling ‘Bravo!’ in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go.”
Solid points all, but Gottlieb conveniently leaves out the most viable option: Mr. Nanny.
If you want to learn more, feel free to track down Gottlieb’s Atlantic Monthly article “Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”, which is currently being expanded into a less clunkily-titled tome, Marry Him! Finding Mr. Real. Just don’t try to acquire the book rights, ‘cuz Tobey Maguire’s already got ’em. And if you can’t appreciate the awesomeness of a hunky movie star advocating tepid marital unions between people who don’t find each other the least bit sexually desirable, you must suffer from halitosis and an abysmal sense of aesthetics.
I haven’t read Gottlieb’s essay, but it sounds like the kind of faux-upbeat material that Albert Brooks would’ve skewered in his prime (or a lie James L. Brooks would’ve elegantly put over with Albert Brooks starring as Mr. Good Enough). There’s no telling what Maguire plans to do with it (my guess is make a mush-headed, $100 million grossing chick flick), but I wish him the best. Whatever comes of Marry Him!, it’ll be co-produced by Warner Independent.
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Realizing that he was about to go bust after going "all in", Toby regreted that he had only brought cash to the table. What he regreted even more was spending his last two dollars on a bottle of water that he now realized was not "sparkling water", but only regular bottled water. A tear fell from his eye and slid down his cheek finding it's way onto his parched lips. His anger grew. It was as if the saltiness of his restrained weeping was mocking his poor choice of beverages. Mr Maguire was never quite the same after that fateful day.
Then he went home. Read all 25 reviews of No Country at Chud.com and blew his uncle. But not before buying a bottle of Perrier.
Looking back, he remembered betting the dignity of Spider-Man 3. He did what he did best in that film, no not dance, but cry.
"Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough" –> is there a companion volume called "Cuckolded! The Case for Paternity Testing"?
"And if you can't appreciate the awesomeness of a hunky movie star advocating tepid marital unions between people who don't find each other the least bit sexually desirable, you must suffer from halitosis and an abysmal sense of aesthetics." Jesus, Jeremy, that was a pretty harsh stab at Devin.
Seriously doubt the filmmakers here are gonna let it go at "marry this guy, he's steady, sturdy, and by god, good enough." Got to expect an ending of separation because of another man the woman is more attracted to and then, hey, I love Mr. Luke Warm (possible name??). I love him PASSIONATELY! He understands and puts a pillow under my head, unlike this big lug! And whatever from there.
Tobey Maguire isn't hunky. He's just in very good shape becuse of the Spider-Man movies. His non hunkiness is sort of how he can play Parker, and sort of his appeal.
Mr. Maguire will get my eternal respect is the closing credit dedicates this film to Kirsten Dunst. Oh wait, he already has my eternal respect for strutting like a bad mutha.
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