Where Have All the Cary Grants Gone?

Note to Hollywood: High-powered women deserve lovers, not losers

Pity poor Uma Thurman. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, her new movie, she plays a superhero who falls for Luke Wilson, a not very successful architect. He does not reciprocate, a less than shrewd response to a woman who, with one glance, can set you alight--and I don't mean with desire. In her last romantic comedy, Prime, she played a high-powered fashion consultant who's dating a man who worked as a kitchen hand and moved into her apartment and played a lot of video games. Those are the men Uma Thurman gets. Or doesn't.

But she's not alone. In this summer's The Break-Up,...

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