Once unhappy housewife Cate Blanchett makes it a trio, however, things go right off the boil.
Like many people given to tropes of questing and conversion, O'Keefe, a former marketing executive who lives in Murray Hill, was once unhappy with his life, which he approached, he writes, "with the blinders on toward maximum performance".
He was once an unhappy law student; then he turned to food.
Used to work as: Like Mrs. Obama, Ms. Jarrett was once an unhappy lawyer who fled a big firm for city government.
When do we want her? Sometime in September". Once the unhappy few reached parliament, no one could quite remember what they were meant to be doing there and everyone shuffled away in a state of embarrassment.
Ms. Solana, 27, a single mother of a 1-year-old daughter who lives with her mother, her cousin and her cousin's two children in Washington Heights, was once an unhappy statistic.
Dorothy Parker, once an unhappy writer in Hollywood, had an image of the town's power structure as "a block-long limo with a gloved, jeweled hand sticking out the rear window holding a bagel with one bite taken out of it".
Homer was once again unhappy at his work, but as with all the Simpson children, when Maggie was born, Homer instantly fell in love with her.
If, as a writer in a far colder land than this once wrote, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then the Auburn family's unhappiness seems particularly Southern, tangled in byzantine politics, ancient grudges and, above all, college football.
Jean-François, she says, became bitterly unhappy once she became famous.
Mitt Romney, seeking the Republican nomination once again, is unhappy that the tax cuts have not been made permanent.
