THE HOME SITTING/2

How better to perpetuate this conceit than showing the stars in their homes, with their families, miming normalcy?

Elaborate at-home charades to depict the stars as just real folks.

Editors and fans alike ate it up.

Here were the icons of the movies doing everyday things everyone did – diapering a baby, frying an egg (though more often than not, this was simplified to boiling water for coffee), cleaning the pool, mending the roof, going to church.