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Cleavage vs. Crime: Do Law & Order Starlets Pretty Up to Move Up?

by Molly Haskell
Jun. 5th, 2005, 8:00 pm
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Why is there no CSI: Kansas, where they need it?My friend Caroline, a fellow Law & Order addict, can  read more »

Cleavage vs. Crime: Do Law & Order Starlets Pretty Up to Move Up?

by Molly Haskell
Jun. 5th, 2005, 8:00 pm
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My friend Caroline, a fellow Law & Order addict, can pinpoint the precise moment when Jack McCoy's a  read more »

Lost in Renovation: Braving a Tour Of Domestic Duty

by Molly Haskell
Jan. 4th, 2004, 8:00 pm
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Everybody's choice for villain of the year, beating out even Charlize Theron's brilliant and ghastly  read more »

Turning Pain Into Art: How'd Frida Do It?

by Molly Haskell
Dec. 15th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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I went to see Frida more out of duty to the sisterhood than genuine curiosity, and found myself both  read more »

Women: Beware The Dreaded Thank-You Note

by Molly Haskell
Nov. 3rd, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Riding the Madison Avenue uptown bus recently, I sat next to a man reading W.G. Sebald.  read more »

Bad Women Make Me Feel Good

by Molly Haskell
Oct. 6th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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I never thought the sight of wild and wayward women parading across the screen would gladden my hear  read more »

Another Shark Washes Up In the Hamptons

by Molly Haskell
Sep. 8th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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In what passed for news this summer, it was the season of bread and circuses, girl-in-the-well stori  read more »

Like Dickens, I'm a Tourist On Withered Ground

by Molly Haskell
Aug. 4th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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The parties I go to are not the sort of affairs where people exchange stock tips or lay the groundwo  read more »

Forget J. Lo-Take To The Waters

by Molly Haskell
Jun. 30th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Travel that involves the consultation of maps, avid sightseeing and strenuous culture-vulture activi  read more »

On Screen, Off Screen: Viva Adultery!

by Molly Haskell
Jun. 2nd, 2002, 8:00 pm
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A few years ago, some of us leaving a party were standing in the foyer when we got onto the subject  read more »

The Lion in the Living Room: Uproar Over a Rug

by Molly Haskell
May. 5th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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I never realized my husband was so attached to our living-room rug-or could even have told you what  read more »

Has It Come to This: Smart Isn't Sexy Enough?

by Molly Haskell
Apr. 7th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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In 1976, with a certain trepidation, I went to Iran as part of a female American delegation invited  read more »

Two Words for the 'Friendly Skies': Bye, Bye!

by Molly Haskell
Mar. 3rd, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Trying to defeat the terrorists in my own small way, I've gone about my business, traveling a good d  read more »

They've Got Us Reeling In the Aisles

by Molly Haskell
Feb. 3rd, 2002, 8:00 pm
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I recently sat on a hush-hush committee of 13 that met in L.A.  read more »

Beware A Brand-New Kind of Man

by Molly Haskell
Dec. 23rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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In the rash of trend articles in the wake of Sept. 11, a New Man is being envisaged.  read more »

Manhattan's Front Line: The Dinner Party

by Molly Haskell
Nov. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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I should feel elated.  read more »

Of Mice And Women

by Molly Haskell
Oct. 28th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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We've all been a little on edge, so when a mouse scampered across our kitchen floor just after dinne  read more »

Zero Degrees Of Separation

by Molly Haskell
Sep. 30th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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How we Americans, with our sparkling optimism and perfect orthodonture, must grate on our friends an  read more »

I Do Not Go Gently Into the Night

by Molly Haskell
Aug. 26th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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By any measure, the tiny slice of ocean on which I spendJuly and August is a corner of paradise.  read more »

Bigamy: A Modest Proposal

by Molly Haskell
Jul. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Granted, it's been a slow summer for hard news, but with thealarums and excursions over the computer  read more »

Diagnosing Demi Disease

by Molly Haskell
Jun. 24th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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I didn't go to the Jane Fonda tribute at Lincoln Center backin May.  read more »

Where Are the Men of My Dreams?

by Molly Haskell
May. 27th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Most women I know think Johnny Depp has about as much sex appeal as a China doll or a Siamese cat-to  read more »

Our Best Feature Forward?

by Molly Haskell
Apr. 29th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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A scene everyoneremembers from pre-Code Hollywood is Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932), bathing in a ba  read more »

In Defense of Julia's Oscar Nod

by Molly Haskell
Apr. 1st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Life these days is such a cacophony of self-interest groups,screaming their points of view in a dial  read more »

The Feminine Minefield

by Molly Haskell
Mar. 4th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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At the Super Bowl party we attend every year, our charminghostess had arranged card tables in the li  read more »

Like Cast Away , Minus the No-Frills Part

by Molly Haskell
Feb. 4th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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I don't want to give the wrong impression: My husband workshard.  read more »

Can You Love Thy Neighbor?

by Molly Haskell
Jan. 7th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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A few weeks ago,one of those crime stories broke-landlord  read more »

How Feminine Is Feminine Enough?

by Molly Haskell
Dec. 3rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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What lessons are we to glean from Hillary Clinton's unexpectedly large victory, and where are the wi  read more »

Things I Can't Watch on Television

by Molly Haskell
Oct. 8th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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At a recent dinner party, we inevitably got around to the sex-roles conundrum of the hour: Hillary C  read more »

My Husband, the Other Survivor

by Molly Haskell
Sep. 10th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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I found myself caught up in the down-and-dirty Survivor finale, which my summer was coming more and  read more »

Candidates Fail Education Debate

by Molly Haskell
Sep. 10th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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As a teenager, I started smoking because everybody else was doing it and I didn't want to feel left  read more »

Testing My Survival Skills

by Molly Haskell
Jul. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Day One .  read more »

The Old Prize Was Cary Grant, Now It's a Baby!

by Molly Haskell
Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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The great suspense of the Academy Awards was not whether Annette Bening or Hilary Swank would win th  read more »

Is There a Democrat in the House?

by Molly Haskell
Mar. 12th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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I don't get it: Democrats infatuated with John McCain and throwing spitballs at Hillary Clinton.  read more »

Finally, the Bitch Has Her Day

by Molly Haskell
Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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From Reese Witherspoon as Election 's high school overachiever from hell to the Blair Witch bully wh  read more »

Two Pushy Ladies Burning Up Television

by Molly Haskell
Jan. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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I recently received an invitation to a television and video festival in Biarritz, Switzerland, and w  read more »

200 Catalogues? It Must Be December

by Molly Haskell
Dec. 12th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Either because we're cranks and spoilsports by nature, or because we've never had children to give C  read more »

Girls Losing Their Virtue At Fight Club

by Molly Haskell
Nov. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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J.B.'s 12-year-old daughter wants to go to Fight Club .  read more »

Are Our Fantasies Becoming Our Reality?

by Molly Haskell
Oct. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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At a family funeral in North Carolina, a cousin and I exchanged e-mail addresses.  read more »

The C List, or How to Weigh Social Capital

by Molly Haskell
Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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While the kids at Columbine High were being given preschool sensitivity training in order to prevent  read more »

Dear Mr. Kelley: Don't Kill Dr. Kate

by Molly Haskell
May. 23rd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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I am in mourning already. I am a fan of Christine Lahti, who plays Chicago Hope 's Dr.  read more »

The Director Is Rarely a She

by Molly Haskell
Apr. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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A recent retrospective of woman-directed films at the Brooklyn Academy of Music prompted the usual e  read more »

The New Retrochicks Let Men Off the Hook

by Molly Haskell
Mar. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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It's getting to be unseemly, this spectacle of born-yesterday babes elbowing each other and their el  read more »

Why Ladies Have a Beef With Hollywood

by Molly Haskell
Feb. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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The often-heard argument that we can send a man into space but we can't cure the common cold had pec  read more »

Oldest Living Columbia Co-ed

by Molly Haskell
Jan. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Tells AllI'd never have known that a sprinkling of grayhairs hadinfiltrated the sprawling assortment  read more »

Something About Beauty And Integrity

by Molly Haskell
Aug. 23rd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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You love it or you hate it, and not being a gross-out fan, I didn't expect to like There's Something  read more »

I Crave Ignorance, Just a Little

by Molly Haskell
Jul. 26th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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As with so many trumpeted "breakthroughs" in the advance of human knowledge, I reacted to the news o  read more »

A Woman In Jeopardy Saves Own Life

by Molly Haskell
Jun. 21st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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During the day I read all sorts of interesting and challenging books: film theory, the latest works  read more »

Hoarding Men, Avoiding the Single Girl

by Molly Haskell
May. 24th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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After wrestling for longer than usual to get into his formal attire for the Film Society Gala, my hu  read more »

My Husband, The Wizard Of Economics

by Molly Haskell
May. 3rd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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This year, like every other year, my husband and I observe the ides of April by going to the bank wh  read more »
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