Tuesday April 12, 2005

This Is the End?

Isn’t it a shame about David Duchovny and Tea Leoni? Sure, their marriage isn’t on the rocks yet, but now that they’re on the cover of the April issue of Redbook, can scandal be far behind? While Redbook’s cover couples present with five times the national average of marital bliss, their split rate has lately outpaced the national average as well. Of the last four couples to appear on the mag’s cover, two are headed for divorce (the Sheens and the Simpson/Lacheys), one pair was (literally) defunct at the time they appeared (John and Carolyn Kennedy), and one set co-starred in Dodgeball (Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor). Adjusted for mortality, that’s a failure rate of 66 percent. And the failures have been truly spectacular. A tip for photographers: If you get a Redbook cover, go ahead and shoot the “after” photo and file it away. You’ll be glad you did.