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The newest Beauty & the Beast is “Beastly”
Pretty Smart: One of our fave characters is Belle. Now comes word their will be a live-action, modern retelling of the children’s classic “Beauty and the Beast” told from the Beast’s point of view. CBS Films has signed actress/singer Vanessa Hud...[Read on]
Danica Patrick joins the celebrity fragrance circuit
IndyCar driver, Danica Patrick, recently announced that she will be joining the NASCAR racing circuit. But it’s not only her racing that fans have to look forward to, as Patrick is also on track to launch her own fragrance this year. SA Fragrances, an ...[Read on]
John McCain Is Best Friends with New Jersey’s “Snooki”
Last night, John McCain’s Twitter engaged in some important discourse about the health-care bill’s 10 percent tax on tanning salons with “Snooki,” which is the chosen name of one of the Jersey Shore people. See if you can spot the pop-culture pun....[Read on]
A Practicing Omni-Sexual Weighs In on Miss California, Gay Rights and Perez Hilton
Mr. wOw vents about the brouhaha at the beauty pageantMr. Wow Blasts Perez Hilton | 05/01/2009 4:15 pm Editor’s Note: Mr. Wow writes upon occasion for wOw. He is the ultimate Hollywood insider who live-blogged Oscar night for us. Today he dro...[Read on]
Women Only Pink Cabs Provide Safety and a Beauty Kit In Mexico City
No, this pink car has nothing to do with Breast Cancer Awareness. Instead its intended to keep women safe in a different way but I’m not sure if this is an incredibly sexist or incredibly smart idea. Mexico has figured out a way to curb sexual haras...[Read on]
White House Party Crasher Michaele Salahi Insists That Whoopi Goldberg Hit Her
Oh dear: Real Housewives of D.C. participant Michaele Salahi has alleged that during her Wednesday appearance on daytime television’s The View, host Whoopi Goldberg perpetrated “outrageous abuse” upon the White House party crasher. Salahi’s lawyer...[Read on]
Susan Boyle: 10 Tips for Taking Off 20 Years, by a Top Beauty Editor
Let’s be honest: At 47, Susan Boyle looks 67. Charla Krupp suggests ten ways she can take 20 years offMakeover Tips for Susan Boyle | 04/28/2009 5:00 pm Editor’s note: Charla Krupp wrote the essential 2008 bestseller How Not to Look Old, whi...[Read on]
Meghan McCain: Republican Party Has to Become More Gay Friendly
Young blogger seemingly has no qualms about taking her party to task on traditionally taboo topics; new gay Republican group launches this weekMeghan McCain on Gay Republicans | Today 1:25 pm Meghan McCain makes no apologies for being a Republican and p...[Read on]
America's Next Top Model Contestant Over 6 Feet Tall and Weighs Less Than 100 Lbs.
Wow. This isn't right: she's 6'2 , weighs less than 100 pounds, and shows up to audition for Tyra Banks' ANTM in a corset. Um...wat? Time for this show, which has tried so hard in recent season to break color and beauty norms in the fashion industry (...[Read on]
Meghan McCain Blasts Ann Coulter: 'I Find Her Offensive'
John McCain’s daughter Meghan doesn’t have many kind words for conservative commentator Ann CoulterPost | Today 3:05 pm The increasingly outspoken Meghan McCain has turned her attention away from matters of the heart and toward another light...[Read on]
The hot new color for beauty? Green.
Everyday women have to make choices regarding their appearance.  What jeans will make your legs look two feet longer?  What shirt will hide that extra five pounds?   What shoes will hurt your feet less? What kinds of beauty products should you use ...[Read on]
Anne Rice has left the building
That building would be the Catholic Church.  Rice was never exactly the follower the Catholic Church dreams of.  She’s known primarily for either the seriously sexual Vampire Chronicles (the first of which was written the year Stephanie Me...[Read on]
Spotlight on Alexis Wolfer: Beauty guru changing the industry with The Beauty Bean
Full of sass and intrigue, one woman’s creation is aiming to make a revolution in the world of beauty and of women’s magazines. Alexis Wolfer, a 25-year-old founder and CEO, created The Beauty Bean, an online beauty and health women’s magazine. La...[Read on]
National Love Your Body Day
A headline from the Tucker Center blog alerted me to the fact that today is Love Your Body Day. The Tucker Center, by the way, is a think tank at the University of Minnesota  that studies  girls and women in sport. Lots of great resources and definitely...[Read on]
Win a copy of Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Michelle Pfeiffer opens in Cheri on Friday (I am helping to promote the film) and the folks who publish Colette’s books that the film is based on have offered 3 copies of the books to Women & Hollywood readers. Here are a couple of questions you need t...[Read on]
The (HOT) Body Issue
I know I may be a little late on this, as tons of pictures have leaked on the Internet and people with subscriptions have been drooling for over a week, but can we all just take a moment and applaud ESPN’s Body Issue?! Don’t worry…if you aren’t s...[Read on]
L'Oréal Just Doesn't Learn
After Beyonce was pretty much airbrushed whiter by L'Oréal not too long ago, it's all the more infuriating to see that their tendency to equate lighter skin with beauty hasn't changed. When they say Freida Pinto of Slumdog Millionaire "is the new face ...[Read on]
Cavalli dresses Shakira for the World Cup
Team jerseys will be the most popular fashion choice in South Africa over the next few weeks. Unless you're Shakira. During her opening ceremony performance at the FIFA World Cup on June 10th, the Latin beauty will be wearing an exclusive look from high-e...[Read on]
Princess Beatrice vs. Alexa Chung: It's On!
Jordan's Queen Rania is visiting Italy, and, boy, has she been Tweeting up a storm. Yesterday she posted a photo in which she appeared to be walking down a tapestry-lined corridor past a row of sword-bearing ceremonial guards. The sentries were wearing ra...[Read on]
Poetry to Inspire, Empower and Encourage
“Golden butterflies embedded in gregarious hearts,” writes Zenith Eliot in his poem “Golden Butterflies”. Such a succinct and eloquent line perfectly exemplifies the flawless inspiration that only poetry can convey. A good poem can make you feel a...[Read on]
French Elle: Celebrities without make-up and photoshop
The April issue of French Elle features eight female European celebrities--including Eva Herzigova, Monica Bellucci, Sophie Marceau, and Charlotte Rampling--all without makeup and, perhaps even more revealing, all entirely without Photoshopping or retou...[Read on]
Is Maria Verchenova the Maria Sharapova of Golf?
 Generally I’m not a fan of labels or comparisons.  But Maria Verchenova, a young female golfer from Moscow, is being compared to her compatriot Maria Sharapova. These comparisons, not surprisingly, are based as much on Verchenova’s beauty as he...[Read on]
Weekend Must-See: Sins Invalid in San Francisco
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]
Autobiograhy of Red: A Verse Novel
Today, we have only fragments of Stesichorus’ original masterpiece, Song of Geryon, which tells the story of Herakles’ Tenth Labor and the death of the red-winged monster, Geryon. In Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson retells the myth with a modern twi...[Read on]
Whip It: A great female empowerment story
Whip It is not deep. It's not complex. It's not going to revolutionize filmmaking. Whip It is just a great female empowerment story with a simple but strong message that's also a lot of fun. And at a time when a lot of mainstream movies targeted at young ...[Read on]
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