"comedy" Articles & Blogs:
The Proposal tops Sex and the City
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This kind of snuck up on me. The Sandra Bullock film The Proposal has now surpassed Sex and the City in its domestic gross. Sex and the City earned almost $153 million and this week The Proposal passed $155 million and its still going.
Interesting.
I ...[Read on] |
Mo'Nique's Spreads The Love With New Comedy Tour
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Mo'Nique doesn't stop! After winning a number of awards (including a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and the Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Film Critics Award) being nominated for an Academy Award, and hosting a successful...[Read on] |
When Meryl met Tina
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When I saw this picture I tried to come up with my idea of what these two awesome women said to each other on the red carpet at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards this past Saturday. Every scenario I wrote was so lame that I can’t post them. Any of y...[Read on] |
Margaret Cho drops a bomb
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(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Here’s a doozy. Leave it to Jessica Wakeman via the frisky to get some juicy news. This time in a conversation she had with Margaret Cho, Margaret started talking about women comedians and how straight women are less succe...[Read on] |
Women and the Emmys
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Dearbhla Walsh
Here’s a list of the women (and shows about women) that won at the Emmys.
Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC.
Actress, Drama Series: Glenn Close, “Damages,” FX Networks.
Actress, Comedy Series: Toni Collette, “United States of Ta...[Read on] |
An Unlikely Romantic Comedy
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I don’t want to give away too much about the quirky little diddy, Obvious Child, but I will say that it’s an unlikely romantic comedy in that it features Jenny Slate as a woman named Donna, heartbroken and one half of a one night stand who w...[Read on] |
Lena Dunham gets HBO Pilot
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Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture which made its debut at SWSX is a really great film. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and loved it. I’m not going to write too much about it here since it will be released in November, but it is smart and a breath of f...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: The Jay Leno Show- Where are the Women Writers?
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Jay Leno does a lot of good things with his piles of money. He funds very important work being done to support women and girls in Afghanistan through the Feminist Majority, but as Nancy Franklin pointed out in a recent New Yorker story on his new show, ...[Read on] |
Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch
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Here are the women on Variety’s 10 screenwriters to Watch. It is really focused on comedy writers and seems to have a bit of a feminist bent. Here’s to hoping these women make some good films that we get to see in theatres.
Emma Forrest
“I’m...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Ben Stiller
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Thought this quote was interesting from Ben Stiller in an interview for his new film Night at the Museum Two that appeared in Time Out Dubai (yes, I guess there is a Time Out Dubai)
Question: Most of the comedy in this film and most others comes from men...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Sarah Silverman: "'Penis' and 'Vagina' Should Be Equal Comedically, but They're Not"
| Like a cheerier version of Jeremy Renner’s demolitions expert in The Hurt Locker, Sarah Silverman is the kind of comedian who loves nothing better than venturing into the treacherous topics of race, sex, and religion to nimbly navigate some potentia...[Read on] |
Three Cheers for Diablo!
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It's official...one of our favorite BUST-y ladies, Diablo Cody, has sold a pilot to Fox! So far, the only thing anyone knows is that it is called The Breadwinner and it's a comedy. I can only imagine where it could possibly go from there. My mind is runni...[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] |
Knocked Up: Feminist Filmmakers Celebrate Roe
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In celebration of the anniversary of the infamous pro-choice ruling of Roe v. Wade, local New York feminist filmmakers are holding screenings of two films this Thursday, January 14th. Obvious Child, co-written and produced by previous BUST intern Anna Bea...[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] |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gets star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Some good news. The awesome comedy of Julia Louis-Dreyfus is being publicly recognized this morning in Hollywood with Julia receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In a piece in Variety Dreyfus talked about her comedy idols:
I’ve always adm...[Read on] |
First Lady of France Carla Bruni Spotted Filming New Woody Allen Film
| Photo by Remi Jouan.In November of last year, Carla Bruni announced that she had agreed to appear in Woody Allen’s then-unnamed new film. “Perhaps I will be very bad,” she mused. Maybe—we will soon find out. Yesterday, photographers snapped pictur...[Read on] |
Double Standard: SATC 2 v. Grown-ups
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Here’s what bothers me. The women of Sex and the City 2 get skewered for being not mature, and self-centered and out of touch and the thousand other things that were used to put down that film, but Grown-Ups a movie that celebrates the lack of male ...[Read on] |
DVD Alert- Revolutionary Road and Spring Breakdown
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I really loved Revolutionary Road. I thought it was a great feminist film and was really surprised that it did not get more play around the awards. I thought that Kate Winslet’s performance in Revolutionary Road was her better one of the year, and that...[Read on] |
Memo to Hollywood: Women go to movies
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We talk about this issue on this site all the time, but I love it when a woman in Hollywood gets down and dirty about how Hollywood treats women.
I love it even more when that woman is Nia Vardalos the keeper of one of the highest grossing romantic comed...[Read on] |
Sony to release Mommy and Me starring Meryl Streep and Tina Fey
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Sony Pictures is having a good summer on the women front. It’s got Salt in theatres now and will be releasing Eat Pray Love in two weeks and I just realized that it will be also releasing Burlesque with Cher and Christina Aguliera this Thanksgiving ...[Read on] |
The Emmy nominations
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The Emmy Award nominees came out last week. Here’s a look at how women did:
DRAMA SERIES
“The Good Wife” (CBS) – co-created by Michelle King
COMEDY SERIES
“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime) – created by Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem
“30 Rock”...[Read on] |
Good Girl Power and Bad Girl Power
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Yesterday, I was so happy to read that Ellen Page is going to write and produce a comedy for HBO with her buddies Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillmann. It’s called Stitch N’ Bitch and
“follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brook...[Read on] |
Movie Review: Leap Year
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The best thing I can say about Leap Year is that it was not as bad as I expected it to be. Films that open in early January are usually really, bad. Remember Bride Wars? That being said I still found the movie at times to be infuriating, especially ...[Read on] |
TV Pilot Pickups and Renewals - May 19
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Fox
Is moving Fringe to Thursdays at 9 opposite Grey’s Anatomy, The Office and CSI making that hour a serious problem for us TV addicts.
Dollhouse will be back on Friday nights.
CBS
The Good Wife will star Julianna Margulies as a politician’s wife...[Read on] |
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