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How 'bout we wait until we've had a female president before making a comedy featuring one?

Battered by Senate hearings, Avenger delirium, "Game of Thrones" anxiety and the news that Aaron Sorkin did not get nominated for a Tony, I took comfort in the positive reviews for "Long Shot" and raced off to my local theater on Friday morning for a little technically job-related escape.

Two hours later, I emerged more depressed and angry than I had been before, and not just because of all the blatant Dell product placement.

As a longtime fan of rom-coms, I was prepared for the requisite insistence that what every deeply committed professional woman needs is a "real guy" who can persuade her to just lighten up for a second. That this case involved a secretary

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