Woman to woman: Diane English on Sarah Palin, single motherhood

Narciso Rodriguez staged a fashion show in the film "The Women," which opens this weekend, but he's been fairly low-pro when it comes to promoting the remake, starring Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan and Annette Bening among a bevy of other beauties.

None of them was in the audience at his real-life fashion show Tuesday night, but the film's director Diane English was in attendance. She said she'd been getting a lot of questions about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter being pregnant, because of the single mom storyline in her TV show "Murphy Brown," and the outrage it sparked among the GOP, specifically Dan Quayle, VP at the time.

"I'm very piquant about it," she said. "She and her family are posing for the cover of US Weekly, so I figure they are fair game. I just wish I still had my show."

Oh, the fun she could have.

-- Booth Moore

Comments

[richsinglemomma]

I loved Murhpy Brown and remember that Dan Quayle comment. But alas we'll have to wait and see how it all pans out.

As a single professional mom, its hard making it but not impossible. Little Ms. Palin will have lots of support, but her unwed pregnant status is certainly a slap in the face for all the moralistic Republicans out there.

Just goes to show it can happen to anyone, anywhere, and at any station in life.