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    All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans

    As Usual, Tobey Maguire is Just Good Enough For His Next Project
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    Image of Terrafractal Terrafractal
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Do we HAVE to suggest that Gawker post something to Jezebel every time some behind-the-times-old-fat-white guy acts sexist/misogynistic/stupid? FFC is media people, he is not the "sex" or "fashion" listed at the top of Jezebel's page, and not all of us ladies wanna have to go there to find anything remotely relative to both females and American culture.


    Hpph.


    Loved his movies, hate that, like Updike, he only considers men to be worthy subjects in Art.

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    Image of doggotmyshoes doggotmyshoes
    06/03/09

    @Terrafractal: Yes, you nailed it - love the way Updike turns that sentence, hate his one-dimensional females. They both (Coppola and Updike) simply don't understand women and so can only depict them in a limited way.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/03/09

    @doggotmyshoes: I humbly suggest that the next guy who can be said to "understand" women will also be the first one. Lucky dog.
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    Image of sybann sybann
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Tool. Hire someone. Jeez, I need a wife and can't afford to hire anyone so have to do it all.


    Fricking order a pizza FC - you can dial a phone, can't you?

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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    I just wish he and his wife would adopt me. I would like to drink wine in a California mansion and eat suckling meats. That sounds much better than $3.99 lunch specials or crowded public transportation with broken air conditioning.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    I love him, but within five minutes of meeting this guy, apropos of nothing, he's vehemently defending himself against his wife's portrayal of him in her documentary Hearts of Darkness--with her five feet away and more than capable of holding her own--five years after the film came out. A year later he let me write a film for him (nothing came of it). Francis, call me. Let's restart that puppy.
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    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    The underlying point Coppola is making and that everyone is missing is that "a wife" is truly a valuable thing, underrated, wanted by both him and his artist wife, someone more than the maid, someone who cares about you and cooks with love so the food you eat nourishes you, makes your bed the way you like to sleep in, aaah, the wife is so unappreciated in America. In America, Elliot Spitzer cheats on his wife, Ashley Madison is a way to not hurt your wife and many people actually want the wife to bring in an extra 100K in addition to providing all the above-mentioned goodies. If Coppola appreciates his real wife for all she does and she chooses to do it, then there is nothing wrong with it.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/03/09

    @doggotmyshoes: We all had that at one point - it's called a mom. And then we grew up.


    The idea of someone taking care of me as an adult makes me deeply uncomfortable.

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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    A married gal working? Is this from The Onion?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Shouldn't he be worrying about who is going to clean up the mess he made out of his last film?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Why's he dressed for jail?
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    I wish I could explain why this makes me like him more.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    06/03/09

    @Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: The sort of mindless, pathetic affection one feels for a slightly retarded puppy?
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    06/03/09

    @Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: I imagine it's because in your mental image, there probably is a lot of arm moving and man-boob jiggling.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    06/03/09

    @Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: because the godfathers, the conversation and apocalypse now are some of the greatest movies of all time and yeah that was a long time ago but who gives a shit what he says.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Does anyone remember "Life Without Zoe", Coppola's contribution to "New York Stories"? That's when I concluded that he had run off the rails.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Oh, straight men can be so adorably clueless.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    06/03/09

    @HiredGoons: Some, but this one? Clueless my ass. Major ego needs wifely submission. Such a shame you married above you, Francis.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/03/09

    @SarahHeartburn: I've noticed a definite fat-ass : misogynist ratio in my time.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    So the Coppolas have no friends to sit them down and tell them "hire domestic help."


    Somehow this is unsurprising.

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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Why do I see him lounging by the pool in a toga with his greasy lips wrapped around a turkey leg?
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/03/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Correct.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    06/03/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: I think the word is pronounced:"greezy"
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    Image of shag_carpet_bomb shag_carpet_bomb
    06/04/09

    @momof3wildkids: My husband was watching a young, slim, (probably malaria/stressed induced, but still slim) FFC in "Heart of Darkness" last night, and I went in to say g'night and I thought, "wow, the last time I saw Francis he was sitting, jabba the hut-like on the corner of Columbus and whatever in SF, eating a bowl of cheese and drinking wine with Sofia, and the time before THAT he was rolling around the vineyard in a freaking golf cart, so huge he couldn't walk..."


    so, yeah.

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    Image of ginger rant ginger rant
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    I'm sure Sofia has something to say about this ...
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/03/09

    @ginger rant: first she has to finish orally pleasuring Thomas Mars.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    06/03/09

    In reply to All Francis Ford Coppola Wants Is a Wife Who Cooks and Cleans
    Did I just saunter into Jezebel? Or is a Gawker author really writing this?


    They've been married for 46 years. They have both -- presumably willingly -- entered into a relationship where one partner plays the "breadwinner" role and the other partner plays the "domestic" role. I don't see that he's forcibly preventing her from pursuing whatever it is she wants to do. I just think he's acknowledging that his wife has played the domestic role and that if she suddenly decided that it was for her anymore, there would be a problem. I don't see that there's anything wrong with that.

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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/03/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: Oh, lighten up.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    06/03/09

    @Richard Lawson: Sorry, I really like his wine. Reasonably priced and delicious.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/03/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: You should try his wife's suckling meats.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    06/03/09

    @Richard Lawson: Dirty.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/03/09

    @Richard Lawson: I hear the sheets boeuf are particularly tender.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    06/03/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: His wife has been a filmmaker almost as long as he has (she made a great documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now), for what it's worth. It doesn't seem like they've had their "breadwinner-domestic" roles hashed out the whole time.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/03/09

    @sarrible: she made a great documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now

    This is news to me. You're not talking about Hearts of Darkness, are you, where the filmmakers incorporated a lot of footage Eleanor had shot but seemed to indicate, if I remember correctly, that her own attempt to create a film out of what she'd shot didn't work.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    06/03/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: Yes...I am wandering over from Jez. I actually think it's cute; he's talking about a Wife as a social construct and saying they both need one. I also had to chime in about the wine -- deeeeelish, especially the Claret (as mentioned by someone above).
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