Last summer a disturbance occurred in the lesbian realm, which the Sapphist Gazetteer felt much in the way Obi-Wan Kenobi detected a disturbance in The Force. It happened when Jodie Foster and Cydney Bernard split after fourteen years when Jodie's gaze fell upon another woman, Cynthia Mort.
The story—reported with vigor in The National Enquirer—said Mort was a "younger, prettier woman," and that Jodie ditched Cydney, her considerably older partner, for someone younger.But that was not entirely accurate. Mort, 53, is indeed younger than Bernard, yes, but only by a few years. Foster, ever the youngest child, is seven years younger than Mort. The one person in this scenario who dumped her wife
for a younger woman was none other than Mort, who apparently left longtime partner Melanie Mayron, 56, in favor of Foster, who is looking good, if studiously earnest, at 46.
Mayron is best known as the cute one on "thirtysomething," but in recent years she's evidently been busy as a director for television shows—including directing several episodes of Mort's creation, "Tell Me You Love Me," which, despite abundant sex, lasted one season on HBO in 2007. Mayron also recently gamely played The Older Woman in "The Itty Bitty Titty Committee."
One of the appealing elements of this dyke drama was that it involved no one under 40. In fact, Jodie is the only one under 50.
While it is impossible to know, as it should be impossible to know, the private maneuverings of Ms. Foster, who is particularly protective of her privacy by typical Hollywood standards, we can, however, take a look at the current professional activities of the new Foster-Mort pairing. If it even still exists, naturally.
Foster is connected with several projects in development, including:
• Director, producer for "Flora Plum," a film about circus freaks starring the once charming but increasingly unlikeable Clare Danes
• Actor, producer for "Investigation," a crime thriller with Al Pacino in which Jodie will probably reprise her ice princess role from "Inside Man"
• Actor, producer for "One Hundred Years On," which is described as: "A woman struggles to keep her cattle ranch despite the interest of greedy interlopers." We pray this will be a nice companion DVD to "The Horse Whisperer" with our fave Kristin Scott Thomas!
• Actor, Producer for "Sugarland," a flick about the sugar industry in Florida. We envision a Catherine Deneuvian plantation mistress role รก la "Indochine"
• Actor, producer for an untitled biopic of Leni Riefenstahl, which could be tricky territory for Foster, who has already been linked in friendship to the very high profile anti-Semite Mel Gibson. We just don't feel good about this.
• Actor, Producer for "Soviet Cowboy," in which Jodie will be creatively cast as Vladimir Putin. At least, that is our hope.
Cynthia Mort, in the meantime, does not seem to be taking advantage of any string-pulling her new Oscar-laden girlfriend might provide. While no doubt keeping busy taking out the trash and unloading/loading the dishwasher at the Foster manse, Mort is filling her off-hours by writing screenplays for the following:
• "Miss Captivity," a film about a reality TV show in a women's prison. Oh dear.
• "The Guide," a film about a Native American detective who helps people disappear. Halle Berry is slated to star, which is its only hope.
• "Bullitt (Remake)," which, unless this stars Foster in the McQueen role, is doomed to fail.
