European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Voices Annette Bening and husband Warren Beatty Star in love affair a film released recently in the states. Beatty grows into the age faithfulness by Barbara roessner Hartford courant the shocking truth is out. Warren Beatty that human Monument to Perpetua promiscuity has acknowledged to the world and Connie Chung and vanity fair and Usa today and a dozen other Media outlets that he is monogamous. And Surprise Surprise. According to an exhaustive new study by the University Chicago s National opinion research Center so Are the great majority the rest us married mortals. Seventy five per cent married men say they re sexually faithful to their spouses As do 85 percent married women. In Short an epidemic marital Fidelity is Loose in the land All the Way from Hollywood fantasy to Hoboken reality. What gives the most obvious explanation is that there has Al ways been a huge Gap Between Hollywood and Hoboken n.j., but social researchers just never bothered to identify it before. All the big sex surveys Over the past several decades by masters & Johnson and Shere Kite for example have based their findings on interviews with people who sought to be Guinea pigs. This latest Survey is the first to use a random Sample average stay at Home folks who might not consider their sex lives interesting enough to Volunteer them for analysis. It May also have something to do with the current 50 percent divorce rate. These Days a husband and wife Aren t Happy they split up rather than stay together and play around on the Side. The married couples who Are still married May actually lust to re main hitched. Or it May be As various sociologists contend that some kind Post sexual revolution backlash is under Way spurred by a widespread fear aids. But Warren May provide the Best explanation. Warren and his liver spots. Warren and his bloated physique. Warren and his crinkled hands. Warren and his 57 years. The most striking thing about the Connie Chung interview was Warren s visible aging. When Connie Cut away from the real live Warren to those old clips Warren As the svelte hyper sexed Hairdresser in shampoo i immediately thought no wonder he has settled Down. He looks like hell Row. He looks even worse when juxtaposed with his Lithe creamy skinned 36-year-old wife with the Little girl Mouth and the Pixie Hairdo. One can Only conclude that even men have their biological clocks and Warren heard his ticking. As he told an interviewer for Lisa today family keeps you from spinning out narcissistic ally into in other words even Warren who just had his second child with Annette Bening Felt the need to connect. Remember a doddering Hugh Hefner experienced the same phenomenon a few years Back when he looked mortality in the face and then hobbled Down the aisle with his favorite playmate. Now he too is a doddering dad. They say Fidelity does not come naturally to the human species. Well maybe not unless and until the species instinctively fears it May die out. Then suddenly it does what it must to keep itself going. And As Beatty says promiscuity and marriage i always thought it would be serious serious trouble Todo both simultaneously interestingly Beatty says he has no regrets about the fun he had discovering the wonders Monog Amy and his first and Only marriage somewhere around his half Century Mark. Middle age marital Fidelity then does not in anyway preclude or negate the premarital or Post marital Romp. And the University Chicago study while portraying a nation sexually contented spouses also notes that the median number sex partners Over the lifetime an american Man is six for a woman two. One the men surveyed however counted 1,016 mates one woman reported 1,009. That Means there were an awful lot numbers in Between. The real question then is not whether Warren will Honor his vows but How Many women it took him to get to the altar. And monogamy really is Back in Vogue How Long until Johnny Depp takes the pledge a xes Angeles times Washington Post news service missing the Rush night football by Diane Werts new Day re you ready for some football ill you bet Hank. Crank up that Rockin Boogie and i m As primed As the rest pm to get Rowdy. Love that song. Love that. Sport. But i Don t love abcs monday night football anymore. And this Breaks my heart. Hey it was Roone Arledge s Post weekend prime time brainstorm that helped addict me to football Back in the 70s, Back in the playing Days Joe Namath and Terry Bradshaw Back when o j. Simpson made his to appearances on the Gridiron. Monday. Night football did it better than anybody the up close and personal approach More cameras More stats More sound those massive Waves super miked grunts and crunches. And More announcers three to the other net works pairs. / .v.v,.,.f that s where the difference lies for me today. Cur rent in callers Al Michaels Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf most sports writers Wax rhapsodic about How solid and knowledgeable and professional they Are How they work together like a Slickly oiled machine. Pine. True enough. That s exactly my problem. ,. After years abrasive Booth combinations abcs thrilled to have finally found such a comfortable Trio. But they re too comfortable together a chortle chortle nudge nudge nod nod like a Bunch frat brats sharing the same inside joke Cool you re in the fraternity. Not Cool when you re not part the crowd. Watching monday night football these Days i feel like some kind interloper who has stumbled on a secret society where the jokes Are either Macho esoteric or altogether not Tunny. All their fraternal Jovia Lity and hey buddy asides just remind me three hours a week that they re in some club where everybody has the same Point View. It does t reach out beyond your Basic Jock mentality. This is not what monday night football is Tup posed to be at least not you remember the Origi Nal show that burst onto prime time in 1970 like meteor. Arledge s Crew pumped up every week s match into a cataclysmic Battle lending it through music and narration and isolated closeups a sense Story and epic drama. That made it a bang up sports event. But More than that with color commentary provided by Veteran quarterback Don Meredith and cogitation maven Howard Cosell to Gifford s play by play every monday night game became a cultural event an absolute social collision betwee Dandy Don s Texas folks Ness and Humble How Ard s Northeast intellectual pontification. Word was they actually did t like each other butt was t just the personal squabble that made them a asclraun8t their skirmishes often seemed to be about More than the game they grew out the two men s different backgrounds lifestyles and be ii Eft and they made in part a larger cultural fabric in the conf Catious 70s. This weekly prime time show was t Jost coverage a sporting event i became part the Mains Tresnon Vanwri Ollife so in the 70s, did football. The ongoing de Makei football important. Cosell Espe sports fans. For a while football seemed aare i say it smart. Cps Ell left in 1983, Meredith in 84, and so soon Educ for Versy three years lathe show be Ted into its current comfy combo. The show went kind Nfn g i avocation to som kind private clubhouse. Los Angeles times Washington Post news service i i ii i Page 20 sunday november 13,1994
