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Weekend Must-See: Sins Invalid in San Francisco
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Tonight, I am headed to the 2009 production of Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility, and I can't wait.
Chloe interviewed the Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Patty Berne, last week, and in another interview, Berne explai...[Read on] |
A 300,000 Square-Foot Room of One’s Own: Scientology Buys a Production Studio
| A Scientology center in Boston. Photo by “Cryptic C62”/Wikipedia.
The Church of Scientology, the historically litigious and totally normal and non-scandalous religious organization, has purchased a 300,000 square-foot studio on Sunset Boulevard, in Lo...[Read on] |
For Colored Girls – Review
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The actresses who star in the new film For Colored Girls have been saying on the press tour that the film is not just for colored girls. I find it crazy that women have to stand up and say that a film that stars some of our finest African American actr...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the Press
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Here are two pieces about New Moon where Women & Hollywood was featured last week.
From CNN.com – Hey Hollywood, the Fangirls are Calling:
But successful female-centric films often are dismissed as flukes instead of viewed as trends, says Melissa Silv...[Read on] |
The Princess and the Frog: Old School Awesome
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When I found out Disney had reopened their hand-drawn animation studios and announced plans to do another 2D feature in the tradition of their old classics, I was SUPER excited. So I braved the weekend crowds on Saturday to check out The Princess and the ...[Read on] |
Tangled and the Future of the Fairy Tale
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After the box-office failure of Disney's The Princess and the Frog, rumor was that Disney decided that fairy tales were a thing of the past; according to the LA Times, targeting only the little-girl market just wasn't enough. The studio's latest offering,...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: August 13-15
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The dynamic of the weekend was set up as adversarial all week.
Will the girls beat the boys? Will the boys punch the girls? No wonder we are still so fucked up about gender at the movies. If we didn’t set the movies up as an us vs. them dynamic...[Read on] |
Newsflash: Women Over 40 Are Not Over the Hill
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Today is my 43rd birthday. Hollywood wants to make you believe that 40 is old, passe. But I want to just say out loud that is bullshit.
And now maybe Hollywood is thinking that us 40 somethings are still worthy, at least of magazine covers. It se...[Read on] |
Trafficking Victims at U.N. Highlight Need for Recognition
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UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)--The U.N. has held hearings and sessions on human trafficking many times before, where professional advocates and police authorities have offered evidence.
But an Oct. 22 gathering before an audience of several dozen, which i...[Read on] |
Young women save The Lovely Bones
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Back in November The Lovely Bones was on all awards watchers list just due to Peter Jackson previous pedigree. No one had seen it, yet it was based on a best selling book and had awards potential written all over it. Then people starting seeing it and...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: July 23-25
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Salt starring Angelina Jolie didn’t make it to number 1 thanks to the growing cultural obsession with Inception (which I liked a lot), but it was number 2 for the weekend bringing in a total of $36.5 million (the budget is estimated to be between $110...[Read on] |
Jennifer's Body
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Jennifer's Body, the latest from 31-year-old feminist screenwriter Diablo Cody (of Juno fame), is hitting theaters September 18th and already it's causing quite the buzz. The Times ran an interesting story this weekend about how Cody and her crew tried to...[Read on] |
'Eat, Pray, Love' Heads into Box Office Showdown
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(WOMENSENEWS)--I don't usually urge female moviegoers to flock to buy first weekend tickets to support a movie that clearly caters to the female audience.
But the face-off looming on Aug. 13--when "Eat, Pray, Love" opens against Sylvester Stall...[Read on] |
Why every parent should watch Huge (with their kids)
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It’s kind of a shame that the brilliant new show Huge from Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life) and her daughter Savannah Dooley is airing during the summer when people are busy, outside, not watching TV and many of the targeted audience kids are at act...[Read on] |
Movie Review: Made in Dagenham - Striking a blow for women
| I had the chance to attend a screening of Made in Dagenham last night at the Raleigh Studios and recommend it to anyone with a social conscience who might have trouble remembering that women didn't always have equal rights.
In fact the film should be req...[Read on] |
President Obama Addresses the Economy
| It’s been a busy week for Barack Obama. Tuesday, the president unveiled his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. Today, in the wake of his announcement of 30,000 additional American troops headed overseas, he addressed another daunting issue of his ...[Read on] |
An Annotated Guide to Every Harvard Crimson Article Mentioned in The Social Network
| Photo by Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan.The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s romp through the infancy of Facebook, did quite well at the box office this weekend, taking in $23 million and handily beating its prime competition, a film about owls whose titl...[Read on] |
Al Qaeda's Latest Jihadist Women's eMagazine
| Tips on how to meet a terrorist husband? Ideas for keeping your skin beautiful underneath a niqab? Poetry about the Holy War? Enter the bizarre world of Al Qaeda's newest Cosmo-like magazine for women.
Al Shamikah--The Majestic, features stories on pleas...[Read on] |
Interview with Allison Janney
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I’ve been a big fan of Janney since I saw her onstage over a decade ago in A View from the Bridge and LOVED her as CJ Cregg on the West Wing. I recently saw her as Violet in 9 to 5, a show much maligned by critics but loved by audiences. She’s als...[Read on] |
Race and Film: The Release of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Interesting story out of England about how director Anthony Fabian is resorting to guerrilla type outreach tactics to raise awareness and get an audience to see his new film Skin starring Oscar nominated actress Sophie Oko...[Read on] |
Ladder to the Top: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
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This post was submitted by Bridget Copes, WCF Development Fellow
Audience members gathered and watched, rapt with attention, as women climbed ladders in a darkened ballroom. From atop their ladders,...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Po...[Read on] |
The invisibility of female professional sports
| This might seem insignificant to some, but it is another example of how female professional sports are erased. Last night I was at the Sugarland concert at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Near the end of the concert Sugarland played a cover o...[Read on] |
Once upon a time, the WNBA reached out to female bloggers…
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And they lived happily ever after.
This is not a fairytale - it’s truth.
Today, the WNBA reached out to me (on behalf of Women Talk Sports), @techmama Beth Blecherman of Silicon Valley Mom Blogs’ Techmamas, @PunditMom of PunditMom and Sarah, @GoonS...[Read on] |
First fruits of a beautiful labor: Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy graduates inaugural class
| Andre Agassi and one of the first graduates from the Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy on Saturday, June 13, during the graduation ceremony.(All Photos by Wireimage)by Kyle Hansen for the Las Vegas SuncontactLas Vegas, Saturday, June 13 -- The first ...[Read on] |
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch: Ice Dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White
| Charlie White and Meryl Davis. Courtesy of NBC/USOC. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend, Charlie White, 22, flipped Meryl Davis, 23, over his shoulder and skated backwards on one leg as she faced the opposite direction and balanced on h...[Read on] |
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