The Boston Globe
November 10, 2005
Men just wanna have pot roast
By Joanna Weiss
Amid all this talk about men who may or may not be necessary, women who may or may not be hopelessly retro, and who's responsible for the whole mess, pop-relationship writer Dalma Heyn (right) arrives with news: The problem isn't women. It's men. Just as we always thought.
That's the subject of Heyn's new book, ''Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy," which purports -- New York Times columnists, take note -- to spell out the problem explicitly. The issue, Heyn told us from her Westport, Conn., home this week, is a certain set of single men who live in the 21st century but pine for the 20th. They're attracted to bold, independent types, but they really want someone content to cook them a pot roast at the end of a long day.
They're confused, ladies. Steer clear.
Heyn is reluctant to give us real-life examples, save one. Tom Cruise. Sorry, Katie. That whole no-antidepressants thing, Heyn says, is ''a very 10th-century thing to say." But based on Heyn's five examples of the form, we've culled some candidates from pop culture.
The Easy-Going Guy
Traits: Laid-back. Cuddly. Mysterious private life. ''His whole answer to everything is sort of 'Whatever,' " Heyn says.
Examples: Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey, above) on ''Grey's Anatomy," Vaughn (Michael Vartan) on ''Alias," Ethan Hawke, George Clooney
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