The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller-drama film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Fred Walton with a screenplay by brothers Ken Wheat and Jim Wheat and starring Donna Mills, Michael Ontkean, Cindy Williams, Sarah Douglas and Louise Fletcher. It is the third in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives". In a prologue, a docile man suddenly kills his wife in a violent method and then commits suicide. Several months later, graphic artist Jodi and struggling author
Bernard Levin with "Truth's" support of the Anglo-French military action in the Suez Crisis. The proprietor and editor of the long-established weekly "The Spectator", Ian Gilmour, invited Levin to join his staff. Levin left "Truth" and became the political correspondent of "The Spectator". He declared that he was no expert in politics, but Gilmour advised him, "review it as you would review television". Levin wrote his column under the pseudonym "Taper", from the name of a corrupt political insider in Disraeli's 1844 novel "Coningsby". He followed Gilmour's advice, becoming, as "The Guardian"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Simon Hoggart said, "the father of the modern parliamentary sketch":