Cradle Robbers

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• fetish
• sugar daddy
• scenario
• young buck

• getting busy
• twenty-some
• heels
• towers over

• robbing the cradle

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You see it all the time: an older man walking hand-in-hand with a younger woman. Neurotic filmmaker Woody Allen is married to a woman 35 years younger than he is. AND, she is his adopted daughter! He and his former wife, Mia Farrow, adopted the girl when she was eight years old. Thirteen years later it was discovered that Woody was getting busy with his adopted daughter, whom he later married.

Dialog

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Dave

John

Dave:  Now, Tom Cruise is getting married, or he actually just had a kid with, ah, what’s her name?

John:  Did they have the kid, or is she just pregnant?

Dave:  I thought she had the kid.

John:  Oh, I didn’t know that.

Dave:  Yeah, either way he’s dating someone who’s, like, twenty-some years younger than him.

John:  Yeah, what’s her name?

Dave:  Katie Holmes.

John:  Yeah, Katie Holmes. She’s really pretty.

Dave:  Yeah, she is really pretty.

John:  I think she’s like eight or ten inches taller than him, too, isn’t she?

Dave:  Yeah, he’s a short guy.

John:  And then she puts on heels and she towers over him. So he’s, he’s kind of robbing the cradle there.

Dave:  He’s really robbing the cradle. It’s kind of a fetish, I guess.

John:  Well, sometimes it can be the older man being the sugar daddy...

Dave:  Yeah.

John:  ...and supporting the younger girl. But, you know, Katie Holmes does pretty well for herself.

Dave:  I think she does really well. You also have Demi Moore, who’s dating Ashton Kutcher.

John:  Right.

Dave:  And again, there’s like an eighteen to twenty-some year difference.

John:  But that’s the opposite scenario. That’s the woman being older…

Dave:  Right.

John:  ...and him being a lot younger. So that’s kind of funny. To each his own.

Dave:  I guess.

 

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