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The Slugger's Wife

A New York Times review of March 28, 1985 written by Janet Maslin began: "It's a shock to find Neil Simon's name attached to something as resoundingly unfunny as this."


A Good Lawyer's Wife

When Ho-jeong catches her teenager neighbour (Bong Tae-gyu) peeping on her undressing in her apartment, she is, at first, angered.

A Mouse Divided

Sylvester's wife, wanting a baby despite his objections ("Every day it's the same thing - pitter-patter of little feet!"), graciously receives the package.

Alex Comfort

In his 1981 nonfiction on sexuality in America, Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese noted, "Often the nude biologist Dr.

Amerigo Bonasera

Bonasera is a proud Italian-American undertaker who tends to keep away from the Corleone Family, knowing they are involved with the Mafia, though Don Corleone's wife is a godmother to Bonasera's daughter.

Aranya Namwong

She also enjoyed popularity in Cambodia after her joint role in The Snake King's Wife Part 2, a prequel of the Cambodian blockbuster and award winning film, The Snake King's Wife starring the famous Khmer actress and former Miss Cambodia, Dy Saveth.

Behind Mansion Walls

The Millionaire's Wife, by Cathy Scott, a true crime book about Barbara Kogan and her husband's murder that is featured in the June 2012 "The Killer Inside" episode.

Bruce Joel Rubin

His writing credits include: Jacob's Ladder, Deep Impact, Brainstorm, Ghost, Deadly Friend (which he adapted from the novel Friend by Diana Henstall), My Life (which he also directed), Stuart Little 2, The Last Mimzy and The Time Traveler's Wife.

Craig's Wife

Craig's Wife is a 1925 play written by American playwright George Kelly, uncle of actress and later Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly.

Edith Hahn Beer

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust with Susan Dworkin (Little, Brown & Company, 1999)

God's Wife

Only two 18th Dynasty queens held this title, being Ahhotep and Ahmose-Nefertari.

Hamo Thornycroft

These included Lot's Wife (1878), Artemis and her Hound (1880 plaster, 1882 marble), the Homeric bowman Teucer (1881 plaster, 1882 bronze), and the Mower (1884 plaster, 1894 bronze), arguably the first life-size freestanding statue of a contemporary laborer in 19th-century sculpture.

Im Sang-soo

2003's A Good Lawyer's Wife was Im's first film to reach #1 at the South Korean box office, thanks in large part to the suggestive poster and trailer campaign centered around star Moon So-ri (who was cast after Kim Hye-soo dropped out to pursue a TV career).

Joanna Taylor

In 2005, Taylor turned to writing, contributing a weekly column to The Times from the perspective of a "footballer's wife" and in 2007, after taking an extended break from acting, she featured in the British independent film Back in Business, opposite Martin Kemp.

Josephslegende

Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph) Op. 63, is a ballet in one act for the Ballets Russes based on the story of Potiphar's Wife, with a libretto by Hofmannsthal and Kessler and music by Richard Strauss.

Karolyn Grimes

She also played "Debbie" in the 1947 Christmas film, The Bishop's Wife starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young.

Lenny Wolpe

His regional theatre credits include The Baker's Wife (Baker), Gypsy (Herbie opposite Betty Buckley), The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Paper Mill Playhouse), A Class Act, Radio Gals (Pasadena Playhouse), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye in six productions), Fiorello!, and She Loves Me (Reprise! L.A.).

Martin Levan

His other credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Blondel, Carrie, The Baker's Wife, Show Boat and Lautrec.

Newberry Library

The Newberry was featured as the workplace of Henry DeTamble, a main character in Audrey Niffenegger's novel "The Time Traveler's Wife;" many scenes in the book are set at the library, and (fictional) members of the library staff play a considerable role in the plot.

Pillar of salt

The pillar of salt into which Lot's wife was transformed in the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Special collections

The protagonist of the 2004 novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, Henry De Tamble, is a Special Collections librarian for the Newberry Library in Chicago.

The Bishop's Wife

Karolyn Grimes also played the (later) famous daughter-role 'Zuzu' in It's a Wonderful Life, released a year earlier.

The Bush Undertaker

Along with "The Drover's Wife", "The Bush Undertaker" is one of Lawson's first sketches, and is among the stories for which he first gained attention as an accommplished writer.

The Butcher's Wife

During their meetings, Doc Tremor begins to speak of Plato's theory of love and the notion of man and woman as "split-apart" halves of one whole being.

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

The work has influenced a number of later artists such as Félicien Rops, Auguste Rodin, Louis Aucoc, Fernand Khnopff, and Pablo Picasso.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

The film opened at #6 in 1,838 theaters making $5,642,137 behind District 9, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Time Traveler's Wife, Julie & Julia, and G-Force.

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife

The documentary was released in the UK as a DVD boxset, together with His Big White Self, in April 2006.

Allan's QC, Charles Gray dismissed Shaw's "wildly unlikely" testimony and stressed the physical impossibility of her claim.

For the majority of the film where Broomfield is unable to get an interview with the Leader himself, his attention is drawn to the driver and his wife (JP and Anita Meyer), hence the title (which alludes to the title of Peter Greenaway's 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover).

The libel suit is mentioned amidst a montage of photos and camera footage of Jani Allan and reporters outside the London court in 1992, in the 2006 Nick Broomfield sequel His Big White Self, a sequel to The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, the documentary that spawned the libel suit.

The Millionaire's Wife

The book was included in an NBC New York story in October 2013 about a juror in the trial of defendant Manuel Martinez.

The Nazi Officer's Wife

Directed by Liz Garbus and written by Jack Youngelson, the 2003 documentary retelling of the book starred Hahn-Beer, who was approximately 90-years-old at the time.

The Preacher's Wife

Too often, he concluded, the plot seemed nothing more than a means of stringing together terrific musical performances by Houston and the Georgia Mass Choir.

The Rabbi's Wife

The Rabbi's Wife is a 1977 novel by David Benedictus.

At the time of its release, the book was reviewed in such publications as The Spectator, British Book News, and The Library Journal Book Review.

The Snake King's Wife

The film starred 17-year-old début Cambodian actress Pich Chanbormey and Thai actor Winai Kraibutr.

The Snake King's Wife Part 2

The Snake King's Wife Part 2 (Khmer:ពស់កេងកង ភាគពីរ,Thai:งูเกงกอง ภาค 2 puos keng kang van Pei, also Giant Snake 2 and Snake Girl 2: Revenge) is a 1973 Cambodian-Thai horror film, a sequel to early 1970s film The Snake King's Wife.

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

The original Manhattan Theatre Club production opened on February 29, 2000 and ran for 56 performances.

Vintage Vinyl

More recently, author Audrey Niffenegger used the store owner, Steve Kay, as a character in her bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife.

Yesterday's Bride

Poe described her role "the most quiet role I have ever played" and far different from the strong-willed and independent characters she did in television series, Legacy and movies, Temptation Island and My Neighbor's Wife.

Zohi Sdom

Lot's wife (Tal Friedman) is a former pop singer whose career went downhill after she married Lot.


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