Romance for Real Women

Are you as bored as I am with the apparent national obsession with Christie Brinkley’s divorce from Peter Cook? Of course you are. Real women find the intrigue surrounding the Madonna/Guy Ritchie split much more entertaining. It, after all, features a major sports figure who may or may not be having an affair with the material girl, but who is certainly and probably not co-incidentally also getting a divorce. Add to that, a mystical Jewish sect and celebrities who still have star power and you have the recipe for at least some relief from our summer dog days.

The Brinkley/Cook debacle features a middle aged man having an affair with an eighteen year old. (And, frankly, could his face lifts and professional tan be any more obvious?) Haven’t we, as a nation, already gone through the angst of a middle aged man diddling a young intern? We have. And there are no spotted dresses here to titillate.

We also apparently need to know about Cook’s obsession with internet pornography. What’s new or interesting about any of this? The only thing we don’t know yet is whether he takes Viagra and I’m betting he does.

And, this may sound harsh, but with all due respect to Brinkley’s past accomplishments both as a model and as having raked up four marriages including one with singer Billy Joel, isn’t she a little washed up?

What tilts the balance for me is that Ritchie and Madonna are not hanging out all their dirty linen. In this case, Madonna is showing an unexpected degree of class. Or maybe just simple concern for her children.

Brinkley had the option of a closed trial and declined it. So, her kids who include a thirteen year old son and a ten year old daughter will have to deal with every salacious detail reported about their parents. So, there go their chances for any well adjusted childhood, if they had a chance to start with and the more I learn about her, the more I doubt it.

So, don’t play the “poor me” tune to me, Christie. I ain’t hearing a single note. My sympathy stops well before the court house door.