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Book Review: Olivia Joules & the Overactive Imagination
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Author: Helen Fielding
Pages: 305
Date Started: 7/27/10
Date Finished: 7/29/10
Simple Summary: Olivia Joules is a journalist. She thinks that one of the men who is courting her might be al-Qaeda and investigates.
Rating: ★★★★☆ My Review: With...[Read on] |
Halle Berry Introduces Helen Mirren
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I know, this going to be video day. Here’s Halle Berry introducing Helen Mirren at the Women in Entertainment breakfast.
“The last bastion of civil rights int he movie business is ageism and Helen you have single handedly all by yourself ...[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] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Helen Mirren
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Helen Mirren was honored last week in London with a lifetime achievement award from Women in Film and TV International. She is now appearing in The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy which will probably get her another Oscar nomination. The film is in limi...[Read on] |
The Dame Got Game: Helen Mirren Dedicates Role in The Tempest to Girl Power
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You know who doesn't need eye of newt, ghoulish eyeballs or a big black cauldron to cast a spell on the silver screen? If you answered Helen Mirren, you are right as rain. Check out this teaser of a trailer starring our very first cover d...[Read on] |
A Dame with Game: Helen Mirren Plays Beer Pong with Jimmy Fallon
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BUST cover woman Helen Mirren promoted more than just her upcoming film, "Red", when she went on NBC's show "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" recently. Fallon challenged our Dame to the popular college game of beer-pong, and she proved to be a great sport as...[Read on] |
Helen Mirren shows a real woman’s body
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Speaking of real women’s bodies — you gotta love Helen Mirren who at almost 65 is not afraid to show us a real woman’s body.
Photo by Juergen Teller
She’s got a new flick – Love Ranch – directed by hubby Taylor Hackford opening next week...[Read on] |
Helen Thomas and the Perils of Overstaying Your Washington Welcome
| Helen Thomas takes notes during an informal press briefing with President Gerald Ford, 1976. (Yes, that’s chief of staff Dick Cheney looking on at the far left.) Photo from the Library of Congress. I am old enough to have been present in the White H...[Read on] |
Helen Mirren Kicks Ass At the Women in Entertainment Breakfast
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credit: Mike McGregor / Contour by Getty Images
My day is made. You have to watch this video. I love this woman.
Mirren received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award yesterday morning at the annual Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment breakfast...[Read on] |
From Movie to Musical
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Two beloved films — Bridget Jones’ Diary and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown are being made into musicals.
Helen Fielding who write the book of Bridget Jones’ Diary has been working on the musical which held a recent reading in London att...[Read on] |
Helen Mirren does Prospera for Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor has taken Shakespeare’s The Tempest and given it a gender redo. USA Today has the first picture of Mirren and she looks great. The film was shot around Hawaii, and Mirren plays a woman who has “her whole life taken away from her because...[Read on] |
The End of An Era – It Takes A Team, Rest in Peace
| It is with sadness that I am passing on the news that the Women’s Sports Foundation has eliminated its initiative, It Takes A Team, effective at the end of January when my contract as director of ITAT expires. I’ve directed It Takes A Team for five ye...[Read on] |
Top people in media according to the Guardian
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The Guardian has issues its top 100 people in media list. Women make up on 18 of the 100.
Here is the criteria to get on the list:
A panel of experienced media watchers from the worlds of politics, journalism, advertising, television and the interne...[Read on] |
The Special Relationship doesn’t do justice to Hillary Clinton
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Here’s a bit about something that’s been bothering me for a couple of days since I saw the film on HBO.
I remember being excited when they announced the cast for The Special Relationship, the third in the trilogy of Michael Sheen taking on Tony Bla...[Read on] |
Interview with Sandra Nettlebeck: Writer/Director of Helen
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I didn’t really know much about Helen (except that it was going to be released this summer) until I got an email from Sandra Nettlebeck, the director asking me what I knew about when her film was coming out. I was surprised to get the email from a w...[Read on] |
Best actress contenders – Thinking outside the box
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik has a recent piece about how small the pool is this year for Best Actress.
He talks about how the top three potential nominees are Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Pr...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Women to Watch
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What a great idea. The people who run the Cultural Leadership Programme in the UK know that there is a leadership disparity between men and women in the arts. Lots of times the issue is that the women are just not visible enough in order to get that n...[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] |
Awards Watch: The BAFTA Long List
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Certain of the Oscar categories release long list before the final nominations but BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has produced a long list in all its categories before whittling it down to the final five in each.
An Education (a...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the News
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Two things I wanted to bring to your attention:
I am quoted in a piece on male stars and weight issues in the Irish Independent.
The Real Box Office Heavyweights
We have an expectation of the type of woman that we want to see on screen. We want them to...[Read on] |
WB sells Supergirl the brand but not the movie
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Usually when you read a story in Variety about merchandising, it’s about how a studio is going to create merchandising tie-ins for an upcoming film.
Now it looks like Warner Brothers’ consumer products division is going to by-pass the theatres and se...[Read on] |
Bette Midler talks women and funny
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I can’t think of the last time I saw a movie starring Bette Midler that wasn’t on a basic cable station. I remember a time when she was everywhere. Guess its been over a decade now since her last good movie which I feel is The First Wives Club....[Read on] |
Women Centric Films at Toronto
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It totally sucks that there are so few female directors at Toronto. But since I am a look on the bright side kind of girl (ha ha), there are a great many interesting women centric films that will be premiering that I am excited to see (if I get press ...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Independent Spirit Award Nominations
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Isn’t the indie world supposed to be better for women? Guess not that much better since women were virtually shut out of all the major awards categories for the Independent Spirit Awards which will be held in LA on Friday, March 5th.
Here are some of...[Read on] |
Equal Opportunities for Transgender Student-Athletes
| On October 25-26 in Indianapolis, The Women’s Sports Foundation initiative, It Takes A Team will be partnering with the Sports Project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights to host a national think tank entitled, “Equal Opportunities for Transgend...[Read on] |
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