Catherine Zeta-Jones Expecting Again (Maureen Dowd remains bitter and childless)

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[jimbo123]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (news) and her Oscar-winning husband, Michael Douglas (news), are expecting their second child next spring, their spokesman said.

The 33-year-old raven-haired beauty gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Dylan Michael Douglas, in August of 2000, three months before the two movie stars were married.
Much to the delight of Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, veteran actor Kirk Douglas (news), young Dylan carried on a prominent Douglas family trait -- the dimpled chin of his grandfather.

Michael Douglas, 58, an Academy Award winner as best actor for his 1987 role in "Wall Street," also has an adult son, Cameron, from his first marriage.

[jimbo123]

Poor Mo.

[Pokey78]

Lamps & file folders now being hurled about at the WP.

[cubreporter]

Did I miss something here regarding the Douglas's and the Dowdy? Can someone fill me in please? Thanks. :)

[Tacis]

Does anyone have a pool going yet for how much longer this marriage will last or who Douglas' next wife will be?

Don't understand how Dowd fits in here, but, as a gratuitous comment, there is just some material better left out of the gene pool, if you catch my drift.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

FR rules in these circumstances require the posting of pictures:

[Pokey78]

From this article:

Still, it did not necessarily seem like hypocrisy when she began to be linked with the actor Michael Douglas -- a kind of Bill Clinton's Bill Clinton who, the tabloids report, has undergone sexaholic therapy. Rather, it seemed like part of the logical background of her wrath. Perhaps she is drawn to such men (at the same time, Douglas appears to be involved with ABC newscaster Elizabeth Vargas). That would certainly explain her anger -- it's at her own women-who-love-too-much weakness. Maybe.

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Except, recently, Douglas. The issue of the 47-year-old Dowd's relationships fascinates many at the Times. That she doesn't really do relationships -- at least not openly -- is what's fascinating. At the Washington Star (twenty years ago), she went out with John Tierney, now also at the Times. That ended badly, when, as she claimed in a pseudonymously published magazine piece, she found a little black dress not her own.

When she showed up with Michael Douglas at Ben and Sally's (i.e., Bradlee and Quinn's) twentieth-anniversary party, it was notable not so much for the celebrity factor as it was for the fact that Dowd had a date. Instead of lingering at the fringes of the crowd and huddling with her friends, as she is famous for doing, she was openly mingling and introducing Douglas to colleagues. "She was," says a Times friend who was at the party, "a different Maureen."

[Jim Noble]

>>Does anyone have a pool going yet for how much longer this marriage will last<<

Well, I don't know.

My five-year old asked, "Mommy, who will take care of us if you get killed?"

While she was stammering out an answer about Nana and Auntie, I said (helpfully), "Catherine Zeta-Jones".

Slept on the couch...

[jimbo123]

Dowd and Douglas were an item but he traded her in for a newer model (Jones). It helps explain much of Dowd's shrillness and bitterness over the past couple years.

[angcat]

He was never a father to his first son with his first wife; he is just a sperm donor. I’m sure Katherine is grateful for viagra.

[twigs]

As you should!

[dennisw]

You can say what you want about Michael Douglas but Catherine Zeta-Jones has CLASS and BEAUTY. She's got curves. No ectomorph she.

[Catspaw]

You mean she let you sleep in the house? That's one very forgiving woman.

[dighton]

Lamps & file folders now being hurled about at the WP.

The NYT, whose editor Ms. Dowd is said to have "dated."

[Jim Noble]

>>The NYT, whose editor Ms. Dowd is said to have "dated."<<

"Dated"?

Is that what they call it now?

[egarvue]

Clocking in to do my FR picture-posting duty, as is required on all threads like this:

[Pokey78]

NYT, not WP. My brain fart for the day. hehe

[Hemingway's Ghost]

GDAMN is that one beautiful woman. Why she's with a living corpse like Mikey Douglas is, well, explainable by the $$$$.

[syriacus]

Maureen Dowd

[Catspaw]

My I burst into song about Mo?

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!

[TC Rider]

Baby: Mmmmmm, lunch!

[SunnyUsa]

I love your title! Made me laugh!!! thanks :)

[FreeTally]

Dowd and Douglas were an item but he traded her in for a newer model (Jones). It helps explain much of Dowd's shrillness and bitterness over the past couple years.

Wasn't it Dowd who cured him of his "Sex addiction"?

[jimbo123]

The Dowd threads here are always fun to read.

[Intimidator]

Now that is ONE HOT CHICK!

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Didn't know Dowd could smile or look attractive. This sour picture mirrors her bitter and repulsive columns:

[MeekOneGOP]

Maureen Dowd

---

Pulitzer prize winning columnist Maureen Dowd,
captured in a candid moment

---

(Dowd --- as you may have noticed from the Constitution's Viewpoints page,
                             which sometimes uses her columns --- enjoys tongue-in-cheek writing. The
                             day before George W. Bush's inauguration last month, the Constitution
                             published a column where she made up quotes from an inaugural planner
                             about how the Bush campaign wanted a return-to-the-Confederacy theme for
                             the festivities. It was intended to be funny. Some readers took it seriously. I
                             had to tell them it was a joke, just not a very good one.)

                             

[Hacksaw]

He was never a father to his first son with his first wife; he is just a sperm donor.

That reminds me of Liv and Steve Tyler - we always hear about Liv referred to as Steve's daughter. But what is little known is that she was raised by Todd Rundgren and her mother. Steve was MIA.

[NeoCaveman]

Ping for a great title....

[Slip18]

Yes, it is!

I'm very happy for the parents-to-be!

[Miss Marple]

My prediction: we are going to see some very, VERY nasty Bush columns over the coming weeks. La Dowd has some sort of weird transference where she blames George Bush for Michael Douglas's dumping of her.

Note also the post#6 by Pokey78, which indicates that my comment that she was looking to queen it over everyone at her high school reunion was fairly close to the mark. HA!

I really, REALLY hope some overworked, mistreated mail room kid at the New York Times is printing these threads and leaving them on her desk.

As I said, I have no mercy when it coms to Dowd.

[LisaFab]

La Dowd has some sort of weird transference where she blames George Bush for Michael Douglas's dumping of her.

That's part of her problem but let me reach for the more obvious (not to Mo) reason:

Ms Dowd has a crush on GW himself!

Yes, little Mo, like most 'dowdy' gals in high school who wrote scornful articles for the school paper about 'lunk-headed' jocks like W, probably prayed every night that one of them would ask her out or even deign to speak to her. Trust me, I quit journalism because of these hypocrites (I hung out with the jocks dontcha know).

She excoriated the i42 in lieu of Mr. Douglas on matters of sex, but is has always been the 'jocks' that have turned-on but eluded the Dowdy one. She can never admit such 'improper' thoughts to herself, ergo her perennial PMS-like state.

Also, IMHO she also longs for non-squishy father/authority figures like Rummy and Cheney who represent the REAL MEN she has probably never attracted.

Schadenfreude never felt so good!

[woofie]

Wow look at her dimples

[Miss Marple]

Indeed he was a jock. He played baseball and basketball. Cheerleading ws done at Andover, which had an all-male student body. He was not a sissy cheerleader.

No more sissy talk about a guy who uses a chainsaw!! Go to your room!

[Miss Marple]

I agree with your theory. Perhaps W needs to invite her to dinner and turn on the charm, and perhaps introduce her to a nice widower or single guy in his circle of friends.

I am really mean, aren't I?

Marc Racicot was just on Fox, and I am once again struck by how many of the men in this administration are both pleasant and attractive. Surely we could find one for Mo! It would be our duty as patriotic Americans.

[MadIvan]

Marc Racicot was just on Fox, and I am once again struck by how many of the men in this administration are both pleasant and attractive. Surely we could find one for Mo! It would be our duty as patriotic Americans.

Speaking as an unmarried (but now very attached) male, I would suggest that Ms. Dowd would have as easy a time finding a date, as I would in having success panning for gold in my shower. The mystery is not why Michael Douglas left her. The mystery is how he could tolerate her in the first place.

Oh, and if Ms. Dowd is reading this, to rub salt in the wound: I rather delighted that it is a British woman who stole Mo's thunder.

Regards, Ivan

[Caipirabob]

At least it was indoors!

ROTFL!

[LisaFab]

He was both, but not as good an athlete as his pop

[Miss Marple]

Actually, I think Michael Douglas was sent to woo her by Clinton, so that her columns would become less critical (they were very scathing on Clinton during the Monica scandal). Once Clinton escaped being thrown out of office, Douglas dumped her. I believe that part of her vendetta against Bush is that she thinks if she is really, REALLY mean to President Bush, Michael will come back.

That falls in the fat chance category, methinks.

[LisaFab]

I agree with your theory. Perhaps W needs to invite her to dinner and turn on the charm, and perhaps introduce her to a nice widower or single guy in his circle of friends.

LOL! I'm afraid that if she got W in a room alone she might whip out her thong, before being shown the door in degradation and humiliation...I like it!

And yes, you are mean. It comes easy when we red-blooded American gals have to defend our heroes from the likes of 'women' like Maureen.

[PJ-Comix]

Not to worry. Reports have it that Maureen is performing multiple Lewinskis and making sure that Howell Raines.

[PJ-Comix]

Actually, I think Michael Douglas was sent to woo her by Clinton, so that her columns would become less critical (they were very scathing on Clinton during the Monica scandal). Once Clinton escaped being thrown out of office, Douglas dumped her.

BINGO!!!

p.s. Cladia Cohen performed the same service on Senator Al D'Amato. She got Senator Al to get off Clinton's case when he was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Then once Senator Al was defeated, she dumped him like a hot potato. BTW, does anybody remember when Senator Al called a press conference to announce that he was "IN LOVE!" with Claudia? Pathetic!

[Darlin']

aaaaah-ha. That 'splains why the tone from the Times has been especially hateful and nasty of late. LOL

[MadIvan]

Actually, I think Michael Douglas was sent to woo her by Clinton, so that her columns would become less critical (they were very scathing on Clinton during the Monica scandal). Once Clinton escaped being thrown out of office, Douglas dumped her. I believe that part of her vendetta against Bush is that she thinks if she is really, REALLY mean to President Bush, Michael will come back.

That would make Michael Douglas little more than a gigolo. Given what he did with Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, this is not an unreasonable assumption however.

Regards, Ivan

[Miss Marple]

Unfortunately for Andrea Mitchell, she had to actually marry her target!

[operation clinton cleanup]

I got two words for the Dowdy one: HA, HA!

[Miss Marple]

What, you think these people have ethics? That is EXACTLY what happened! Douglas wooed her as the Impeachment was starting, her columns on Clinton muted, and after the Senate failed to convict he dumped her. Note also PJ's comment on D'Amato, and my additional comment about Andrea Mitchell, who ended up marrying the head of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan.

Notice also how now Hollywood has been enlisted to diss the entire Bush administration...Harry Belafonte, Woody Harrelson, Barbra Streisand, etc. Clinton calls the shots on this stuff.

Maureen can't admit she was a dupe...hence her transference of blame(accompanied by a crush, as LisaFab says) and nasty columns about President Bush.

[angcat]

Liv’s mother was such a whore oh my god what a dysfunctional environment that child grew up in it’s a miracle if she is mentally normal. Can you imagine reading a book about all the men your mother slept with? Sicky Sicky Sicky.

[dighton]

Actually, I think Michael Douglas was sent to woo her by Clinton, so that her columns would become less critical (they were very scathing on Clinton during the Monica scandal).

I've long suspected something of that nature. Douglas, an accomplished rake, could have done and has done much better.

[stands2reason]

ROTFL!!!!