"blue-peter" Articles & Blogs:
Sneak Peek: Watch Peter Jackson's 'Lovely Bones' trailer!
| The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Film directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg.
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What we missed: Obama Speech in Cairo Edition.
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There have been some really good posts from around the blogosphere about Obama, Cairo and women's rights. Here are a few that caught my attention.
Sarah MC takes Obama to task on not being afraid to offend religious fundamentalists and make a statement...[Read on] |
Rosie O: Comic Book Female Force
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Blue Water’s comic series “Female Force” is featuring the comic book biography of Rosie O’Donnell and all her kick ass endeavors as a comedian, talk show host, actress, and activist. Blue Water launched this series in 2009, in prai...[Read on] |
Book Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
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Author: Maureen Johnson
Pages: 368
Date Started: 8/1/10
Date Finished: 8/4/10
Simple Summary: Dead Aunt Meg sends shy Ginny gallivanting across Europe through thirteen little blue envelopes. Awkward flirting and adventures may occur.
Rating: ★★★★...[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] |
Legendary Pinup Jane Russell’s 1948 Vanity Fair Cover
| From the Everett Collection.
Jane Russell died Monday of respiratory failure at her Santa Maria, Calif., home, surrounded by family—she was 89 years old. And 63 years ago this month, Russell appeared as the face of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue—prom...[Read on] |
WPS Unveils 2010 Uniforms
| Women's Professional Soccer unveiled the uniforms for the 2010 season (click picture for larger image). In all honesty, they look way better than last years ill-fitted uniforms with the odd, square-shaped neck line. Yeah, I know I said last year's...[Read on] |
Letters to Loved Ones Month
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I know, I know, you’re probably cocking your head to one side right about now and scrunching your face in confusion. Why in August — not February — am I choosing this theme, you might ask? Well, even with the heat bearing down on most of us and wil...[Read on] |
Surgeon “Very Optimistic” About Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s Condition
| Gabrielle Giffords, 40, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in the head this morning in Tucson during a meet-and-greet with constituents. According to The New York Times, 12 people, including Giffords, were injured. As of this afternoon, Gif...[Read on] |
Nine-year-old girl wins competition to design coin for London 2012
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A new 50 pence coin to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, designed by nine-year-old Florence Jackson from Bristol, England, will be officially launched this week.
Florence beat more than 17,000 entries to win the contest, which was spon...[Read on] |
Alice Munro Wins Man Booker International Prize
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Beating out lots of talented, towering literary figures including Mario Vargas Llosa, VS Naipaul, and Peter Carey, Munro was named the third recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
This is what judge Jane Smiley said about Munro:
“Her work is...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Crazy Heart's Maggie Gyllenhaal
| Two-thousand-nine was a very good year for Maggie Gyllenhaal. In February, she appeared onstage in a New York production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya alongside Peter Sarsgaard, her longtime fiancÉand father to their three-year-old daughter. In May, the...[Read on] |
Keeping the Mood Light at The Lovely Bones Premiere
| Susan Sarandon, Christian Ashdale, Peter Jackson, and Saoirse Ronan at The Lovely Bones premiere in New York City, on December 3, 2009. Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com. “I didn’t even recognize you!” Susan Sarandon said to an Alexander Wang-clad ...[Read on] |
Tipsy Tuesday: Best Drink I Ever Had
| The Food Network is a glorious channel. Mostly consisting of hours of reruns and a not very searchable website (I has pet peeves), they do churn out some gems. I mean, it’s a long list! The newest one is Best I Ever Drank — although it’s just an epi...[Read on] |
Shake Those Bangs For Mary Travers
| I grew up listening to Peter, Paul, and Mary–my sisters and I belting ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ dramatically in our kitchen on many a rainy afternoon. While an enduring obsession with sixties culture and folk music grew out of this, so di...[Read on] |
Sexism Alert: The Catfight Begins
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Peter Bart has never been known as being ahead of the curve on gender issues, so it’s not too surprising that his was the first column to begin pitting Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow in a girl-on-girl competition for year end awards for their films Br...[Read on] |
Interview with Lone Scherfig - Director of An Education
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Danish director Lone Scherfig is one of several women being mentioned this year for a potential best director nomination for her critically acclaimed film An Education. Here’s what I wrote earlier about the film. She took some time to answer some qu...[Read on] |
Early Oscar Prediction—Best Directress: Kathryn Bigelow
| Oscar season generally begins after the Toronto International Film Festival, once the bulk of prestige films have screened for critics and picked up distributors, leaving only a handful of latecomers to tip the balance. (This year, these known unknowns in...[Read on] |
New Female Troops Patrol South Bengal Frontier
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BONGAON, India (WOMENSENEWS)--The clear blue sky with twirls of white clouds rises above lush green fields while a soft wind blows.
It is a quiet and picturesque spot in the southern region of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
But Rita Chakla, 23...[Read on] |
Booze Reviews: Jose Cuervo Silver
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Rating: ★★★★☆ I’d be lying if I didn’t say this was one of my top choices for clear tequilas.
A smooth, distinctive tequila, Jose Cuervo Silver is perfect for mixed drinks.* It’s masterful process of distilling the agave make for a hint...[Read on] |
Natalie Gulbis throws out first pitch at A’s game
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We’ve written about a lot of ladies throwing out the first pitch this baseball season. LA Sol Soccer player Marta, golfer Michelle Wie, and Sparks players Delisha Milton Jones and Tina Thompson graced the blue carpet by throwing out the first pitc...[Read on] |
Women’s College Cup: True Blue
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In a battle between the NCAA’s most storied program and an unbeaten Stanford squad, history won out, as North Carolina took a 1-0 win to claim its record 20th national title.
It was a heartbreaking outcome for Stanford (and after UCLA lost in the semis...[Read on] |
Top Three Parties: Coachella, Coachella, Coachella
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Paul McCartney. 2. The Killers. 3. Lupe Fiasco. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Every Monday, VF Daily usually picks the top three parties around the globe that happened over the weekend. But this weekend, there was only one party that mattered: Coachella. Coa...[Read on] |
Variety honors a variety of Hollywood women
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Yesterday while I was taking editor in chief Peter Bart to the woodshed for his sexist comments about Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow the paper that he runs, Variety, was about to honor a plethora of women (including both Campion and Bigelow) for their c...[Read on] |
Olympic athletes to sport vintage-inspired style
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The Countdown to the Olympics includes a lot of important preparations, not the least of which is what the athletes are going to wear.
As he has done before, Ralph Lauren will have a hand in outfitting the athletes. His affinity for Americana will be...[Read on] |
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