Reply #6: Funny thing... [View All]

If you are a big fan of "All About Eve" you know that Dowd's reference to the movie only works on the most superficial level. First of all, everyone gets pretty much what they wanted by the end of the movie. Eve becomes an award-winning actress. Addison DeWitt finds a worthy object (Eve) for his manipulation and sexual coercion. Lloyd the playwright gets a much-younger actress (rather than the middle-aged Margo) that he wanted in his play in the first place. Margo and Bill the director finally decide to get married, and maybe have kids. And Karen, who initially seems the most innocent of the group but turns out to be a petty manipulator as well, gets her husband, Lloyd the playwright, back from the seductive Eve -- but only because DeWitt is not willing to share.

As Addison DeWitt points out: we're all improbable people.

Anybody notice that Dowd didn't point out that the Miss America who had to step down over nude photos was the first-ever black Miss America? I wonder if Dowd just didn't catch that or decided not to bring that up.