You might want to ask Mrs. David Lettermen — I’m guessing she’d say no (although, one of Letterman’s paramours, Merrill Markoe, joked, “As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.” Gotta love her sense of humor).
And so Letterman’s wife, Regina Lasko, becomes the latest in a string of wives who have been cuckolded — actually, cuckqueaned, but that just sounds so not OK— by their spouses (although the affairs occurred before they were married, Lasko and Letterman were in a long-term, committed relationship at the time).
If you’ve ever been cheated on — as I have — you know that it’s devastating. So, when I heard a lot of laughter around me in the movie theater when the trailer for “It’s Complicated” came on, a movie with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin playing a divorced couple who have an affair a decade after they split — and Baldwin’s married to the younger hottie with whom he cheated on Streep — I had to ask myself, what the hell?
Because the movie clip seems geared to have us rooting for love the “second time around” (when Streep admits to her girlfriends that she’s having an affair with her married ex — “I’m the other woman; I’m the one we hate!” — a friend tells her, “You had him first”).
The ex wants her back — “I’ve never really learned how to live without you,” he says — and wouldn’t that be a fairy-tale ending? I’m guessing, given the writer/director, Nancy Meyers (“What Women Want,””Something’s Gotta Give”), that he gets her.
But, the idea that cheating is somewhat amusing — even if it’s with your former husband — rubs me the wrong way. What about you?
