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Drop Dead Diva - Premieres Sunday on Lifetime
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I remember not too long ago when Sunday nights were reserved for some strong Lifetime dramas. Remember Strong Medicine and The Division? I really liked both those shows. After both shows left the air, Lifetime struggled and, to me, got a little too ...[Read on] |
Lifetime orders three cop pilots
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I do think Lifetime needs to get back into the real drama business. The shows aside from Drop Dead Diva and Army Wives has not been very stellar or interesting of late. (Army Wives even at times veers into the way too mushy territory)
They’ve order...[Read on] |
Femme Pedals Mountain Bike Group
| Happy New Year!
If you are into mountain biking in the south Florida area, check out the recently formed Femme Pedal cycling club.
From the Femme Pedal Meetup Group Page
"Our mission is to provide all types of opportunities for women mountain
bikers ...[Read on] |
SNL Returns with Amy Poehler and Katy Perry; But Will There Be Gummi Bears Involved?
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Saturday Night Live is one of those cultural phenomena that refuse to disappear. We will all be dead and gone before SNL goes off air. This fall marks the show’s 36th running year and the entire cast (minus Will Forte) will be returning on September...[Read on] |
Go Girl: Pee Standing Up
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The anchor said, "laugh if you want, but the things taking off!" Imagine that, women are tired of dirty toilettes we can't sit on, waiting in long lines, holding it for miles or when in the woods alm...[Read on] |
Will Michelle Obama Influence Women About Wine the Way She Did With Fashion?
| It didn’t take us very long to notice Michelle Obama’s style on the campaign trail and I’m not talking about arms. I’m a bit under 6 ft. myself and first it was the poise, the grace of motion and that drop dead gorgeous smile that won me over. Lat...[Read on] |
Does Mel Gibson Suffer from Male Menopause?
| • The Barefoot Bandit was sentenced to 18 months in jail for endangering the life of an elderly man during a string-cheese-heist gone wrong. [Gawker] • Both McDonald’s and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are denying The Wall St...[Read on] |
Liz Cheney Is the New Dick
| Who’s the most venomous and pernicious person in American life today? That person who, without an iota of irony or self-dramatizing exaggeration (Rush Limbaugh, in that sense, is rather a kitten), really believes the nation has descended into a malignan...[Read on] |
Where we are as women (in Film)
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There must be something in the water because over the last week there have been several substantive pieces and one panel (which I will blog about later) discussing women and film. These discussions are not new, they happen all the time, but having two p...[Read on] |
An Interview With Randee Heller, Mad Men’s Mrs. Blankenship
| Randee Heller as Don Draper’s indiscreet (and now dead) secretary, Mrs. Blankenship. Photograph by Mike Yarish/AMC. The break-out performance of the current TV season has been Randee Heller’s as Mrs. Blankenship, Don Draper’s atypically mature secre...[Read on] |
Master Photographer Helen Levitt, 95, Dies
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Saying good-bye to the photographer known for shooting New York street scenesIn Memory of Helen Levitt | Today 12:00 pm
Iconic photographer Helen Levitt died at the age of 95 on Sunday.
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Levitt, who was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was ren...[Read on] |
Conde Nast axes four women's magazine titles
| We've been hearing for some time that print journalism is dead. Newspapers and magazines have been cutting back or ceasing operation in alarming numbers.
Now comes news that Conde Nast is shutting down four magazines, including the awarding winning Gourm...[Read on] |
Hell Hath No Fury Like Taylor Swift (Sorta) Scorned
| Taylor Swift is approaching promotion of her third album, Speak Now, with what can only be described as Nixonian paranoia—her label seems to fear that nothing short of a manufactured shitstorm of controversy will save it from tanking. Ahead of the disc...[Read on] |
Faces in Wine: Monique Soltani Wine & Food Journalist to Judge at IWWC in November
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Occupation: Food and Wine Reporter
Description: I am the creator and host of Wine Oh TV and creator and host of the weekly video segments: Wine Wednesdays and Foodie Fridays. I host, shoot, write and edit all of my own work! My Diva days are done! ...[Read on] |
How I decided to run a marathon
| One woman described her foray into running, originally to help her lose weight. Over 100 pounds lighter, she’s now hooked, preparing for a half marathon, then a marathon with a goal of running an ultra event.
Another woman had loved running but was for...[Read on] |
USATF Cross Country: Bringing up the Rear
| Well, I have done it again. Last year on this very day, I swore that I would not get talked into running another cross country race, but here I am, sweaty and exhausted, sitting down at my computer to recap the 2009 Southern California USATF Cross Country...[Read on] |
SAFE! US Ship Captain Saved in Dramatic Rescue
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Navy Seals lead an operation personally approved by President ObamaPost | Today 5:48 pm
Captain Richard Phillips ended Easter Sunday safe aboard the U.S. Navy Ship the USS Boxer, after Navy Seals rescued him from his Somali pirate captors in a dramatic ...[Read on] |
Elizabeth Lambert: Where is the Outrage?
| I’ve watched this video over and over again now, and I still can’t understand why, in any of these egregiously unsporting incidents, none of the women mistreated by Elizabeth Lambert turned around to treat this woman to an elbow in her jaw.
The uglin...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Michelle Rodriguez
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While Fast and Furious may have made $72 million at the box office this weekend, Michelle Rodriguez who has a “reputation”cough cough for being difficult comes clean to Latina.com about what it’s like for strong women in Hollywood.
“Anytime you...[Read on] |
Anna Deveare Smith and Charlayne Woodward — Two One Woman Shows Playing in NY
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It’s not too often that we see one African-American woman leading a show on Broadway or Off-Broadway and this fall, we have two. Awesome. Need to see both of them.
Anna Deveare Smith who has lately been known as a TV and film actress (Rachel Gettin...[Read on] |
The Consequences of Speaking Out
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The news last week was that Megan Fox is off the third Transformers movie. This being Hollywood both camps have differing responses to her departure. Her side told The Wrap that said she walked away because director Michael Bay was “verbally abusive...[Read on] |
Gaultier Women Box in Corsets During Fashion Week
| All I can do is stutter, and periodically I break into uncontrolled laughter that sounds like hooting. I did a quick screenshot so you can hoot too.
When I first saw the pictures from Jean Paul Gaultier’s runway show and realized he’d done the entire...[Read on] |
Every Wall Glares Like a Glass Ceiling: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 4
| At lunch Sunday afternoon at Becco with Elvis Mitchell and Kim Benabib, the conversation turned to Mad Men, as conversations tend to do these days. Regarding Don Draper’s California interludes, when Don visits the widow of the real Don Draper (whose ide...[Read on] |
'Glee’s' Lea Michele tackles “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl XLV
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Access Hollywood has confirmed that Lea Michele, the 24-year-old Broadway ingenue-turned-breakout star of “Glee,” will be singing “America the Beautiful” prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers showdown in Super Bowl XLV.
Pas...[Read on] |
Guess Gets Seductive, Even More So Than Usual
| Clockwise from top left: Shantel VanSanten, Maurice Marciano with Alyssa Miller and party host Vanessa Hudgens, Mark Sailing, Louise Roe, and Solange Knowles. From PatrickMcMullan.com.
The new Guess fragrance, Seductive.
On a serendipitous Hollywood eveni...[Read on] |
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