henpecked

I was raised by a sweet henpecked father, who would have said something disparaging about himself to get me to help him with his computer or read tiny print.

In “The Best Man,” she plays a stripper named Candy, and she and Perrineau share one of the film’s most memorable scenes as Candy treats Perrineau’s henpecked youth counselor, Julian “Murch” Murchison, to a spirited lap dance during the bachelor party.

Michael Burlingame, a professor of history at the University of Illinois Springfield, said that other than treating Lincoln as a “classic henpecked husband,” at face value there’s nothing funny about Mary Todd Lincoln.

“His shoulder-rolling caricature of this suave, foppish and thoroughly henpecked kingpin is the film’s biggest treat,” wrote New York Times movie critic Janet Maslin.

“That ever I should live to see you a henpecked husband and enjoying it!” cried Jo, with uplifted hands.