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I was watching an old episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm last night (as in-demand It Girls often do), and when I heard frequent guest star Ted Danson tell Larry David that he and his wife—the actress Mary Steenburgen, who also often appears on the show—were separated and headed for divorce, I cannot tell you how hard I sweated. You would think my parents were telling me they were splitting up (again!) .

Distressed, I rushed to Google to fact-check and quickly learned that this was the definition of “a joke”; indeed, Danson and Steenburgen a

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