It’s not that we don’t love the guy who played Ferris Bueller.  He was the guy we all wanted to be best friends with.  Our love for him began with “WarGames” in 1983, and only grew over time as he threw his adorable self into adorable roles left and right.  When he and Sarah Jessica Parker started dating, it was like the two cutest little people on the planet found each other.  When you exchanged wedding rings on May 19, 1997, the world sighed collectively, like when we see a new litter of puppies or fuzzy duckies waddling after their mom.

But there was one little glitch.  It was all of those rumors that flew around Hollywood—the same ones that plague Anderson Cooper and Tom Cruise.  We were all pretty sure that you were batting for the other team.  And we didn’t love you any less for it.  We just didn’t understand why you didn’t just ‘come out’ and say it.

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And then you did.  You went on Broadway.  With Nathan Lane.  You wrote it on a great big marquee for everyone to see in bright, flashy lights, as it should be.

All while married to Sarah Jessica Parker, who we loved from “Sex and the City”.   Maybe Sarah just really adored you, and, like any good fruit-fly of a certain age, decided that you should have a baby.  And you did.  An adorable one.  Last year, the rumors started flying around that Matthew Broderick was caught having an affair with a much younger ‘stunning redhead’.  The tabloids assumed this was a woman.  I, for one, would like to know the whereabouts of Prince Harry at this time.  Hollywood insiders, however, were quick to dispel the rumors and SJP and Matthew were seen in public as a united front.  And why shouldn’t they be?  If there’s one thing SJP could rely on, it was her husband’s lack of interest in other women.  Maybe she would have been upset if he had been caught helping another woman pick out new Jimmy Choos or something from the latest line of Chanel.  But not for this.

Now, Sarah Jessica is moving out.  After 11 years together, she is looking for her own apartment and putting an end to the marriage.  According to various sources, the two have been living separate lives for a long time.  Duh.  They stayed together over the holidays to create a good family environment for their 6 year-old son.  But as soon as January came, so did the rumors that Sarah Jessica was house-hunting. 

According to “Star Magazine”, a family insider claims that: “Sarah and Matthew still do love and care about each other, they just aren’t in love”.  It is probably a good thing for all involved that Sarah moves out and gives herself to find true love.  And, hopefully, Matthew can do the same.  Whether or not he ever does anything to prove those persistent rumors true or not is still a mystery.

But I’d be looking for someone dressed as Inspector Gadget hovering around the Buckingham Palace, waiting for young Prince Harry to make an appearance.

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