"jenna-bans" Articles & Blogs:
Tales from the Tee – Better than a Barbie
| I just had to chuckle when I read the latest entry at Women on Course’s Tales from the Tee blog. Author Carolyn Luepkes talks about how she got her 6 year old granddaughter hooked on playing golf – and how well her granddaughter picked it up.
I just ...[Read on] |
Book Review: Compromising Positions
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Author: Jenna Bayley-Burke
Pages: 248
Date Started: 9/28/10
Date Finished: 9/30/10
Simple Summary: David’s a playboy. Sohpie’s a virgin. They both will be teaching a couples’ Karma Sutra yoga class.
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ My Review: While I love...[Read on] |
Why I Love Shonda Rhimes
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In case you don’t already know this, having Shonda Rhimes be a part of the TV landscape has upped the feminist quotient exponentially. Next season she adds a third show to her roster Off the Map created by Jenna Bans. She is now officially a mogul.
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ESPN Bans NY Post for Showing Naked Erin Andrews Photos; Female Sportscaster Finds Allies Everywhere
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As the investigation into who the peeping Tom was violating Andrews’s
privacy, reports and blogs pop up everywhere blasting sexism, voyeurismPost | 07/23/2009 10:30 amThe disgusting ordeal ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has had to face — being the...[Read on] |
Interview with Jenna Milly Co-Creator of TBS’ Micro Series Gillian in Georgia
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Jill Marie Jones as Gillian
Here’s a look at an aspect of the business we have never covered before. Microseries. Writer Jenna Milly (who I had corresponded with previously when she interviewed my for an article) takes us behind the scenes about how ...[Read on] |
Fall 2010 TV Season – Shows Created by Women
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The fall lineups have been set (including some mid-season shows) so it’s time to see how women creatives have fared.
Here’s what we have been able to find out (research assistance from Stephanie Rosenfeld)
Fox – Five new shows- no female creators
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Accidentally on Purpose – Why couldn’t she consider abortion?
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Accidentally on Purpose, the new sitcom on CBS starring Jenna Elfman is based on the real life story and memoir of Mary Pols a film critic who is writing now for Time.
The show is about a woman played by Jenna Elfman who after a one night stand with a yo...[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] |
Casting Call: No Fake Breasts
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Here’s an article from the Times of London on the casting call that went out last week for the 4th installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie to be directed by Rob Marshall.
Here are the requirements to be seen for the role:
beautiful female fi...[Read on] |
What Happens If Stupak Wins? Watch the Video
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
The health care battle isn’t over yet. And anti-choice Members of Congress are hard at work as we speak.
As Congressional leaders work to iron out differ...[Read on] |
Why Chelsea Clinton's Wedding Dress Will Be Oscar de la Renta
| Chelsea Clinton wearing Oscar de la Renta to the School of American Ballet's Winter Ball in New York City, March 5, 2007. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Now that Chelsea Clinton has announced that's she's engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, who ...[Read on] |
Fall TV lineup brings the funny & the drama
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The cool air is starting to roll in again and our evening activities are starting to move back inside during the evenings. This means that fall TV is making its return and Chickspeak is excited about all the new prime time possibilities available to us.
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Franken Introduces Student Non-Discrimination Act
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by Jesse Krohn, Intern, National Women's Law Center
Yesterday Senator Franken introduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA), a bill that bans discrimination in public schools based on one’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender ident...[Read on] |
Hijab ban belongs in the sin bin
| When soccer's world governing body FIFA banned Muslim headscarves from competition, a shudder went through Sydney's all-female football team, the Lakembaroos.
The hijab ban has already this week forced the Iran girls' soccer squad out of the first summer...[Read on] |
Domestic violence survivor evicted for reporting abuser
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When Kathy Cleaves-Milan's live-in boyfriend abused her she did what society is always telling abused women to do: she reported him to the police. And what did she get for bravely doing "the right thing?" She go evicted.
A day after she told police tha...[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] |
Kawasaki’s Green Goes Pink
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Jenna Goldberg
We all love action sports, and sometimes that passion drives us to do challenging and borderline- psychotic things. Take for instance, running a 24-hour motocross marathon, helping riders of all ages to learn to ride a dirt bike, re...[Read on] |
A Chick’s Guide to Clever (Over)packing
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I’ve become a notorious over-packer amongst my family and friends.
My bags are usually hovering on the edge of overweight when I fly (or sometimes just blatantly too heavy, like when I went back to school in August this year with 3 suitcases, 2 of whic...[Read on] |
A Chick’s Guide to Clever (Over)packing
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I’ve become a notorious over-packer amongst my family and friends.
My bags are usually hovering on the edge of overweight when I fly (or sometimes just blatantly too heavy, like when I went back to school in August this year with 3 suitcases, 2 of whic...[Read on] |
Chicago, America’s Next Surf City?
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The Windy City is one of America’s sports meccas: home to the Bears and the Bulls, the Sox and the Cubs, and but can it become Surf City, U.S.A.? Technically no, since that name belongs to Huntington Beach, California but this week Chicago city offici...[Read on] |
What's Next for Women's Legal Rights in the Supreme Court?
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by Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
Every year, the Supreme Court is confronted with cases involving legal issues of the utmost importance to women, including the constitutional rights of women to a zone of privacy and to equa...[Read on] |
Women & Wine – Grape Expectations for Social Media from the Wine Industry
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“It was the best of times and the worst of time..” High hopes, erratic weather conditions, a tentativeness about the economy hovering on the horizon is what characterized this harvest season … or am I describing the Season of Social Media in the wi...[Read on] |
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