"jennifer-lawrence" Articles & Blogs:
An Actress on the Brink
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Photograph by Nino Muñoz
Jennifer Lawrence’s performance in Winter’s Bone which opens on Friday is staggeringly good. It is one of the most honest, realistic, heartbreaking performances I have seen in a long, long time. It feels to me that we ...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
Book Review: Strange Bedpersons
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Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 256
Date Started: 8/29/10
Date Finished: 8/29/10
Simple Summary: Tess and Nick are total opposites but were once crazy about each other. Nick needs a fake fiance for the weekend to impress a potential client and thinks of Te...[Read on] |
Women in Film to Honor Holly Hunter and Jennifer Aniston
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Women in Film will honor Jennifer Aniston, Holly Hunter, Catherine Hardwicke, Elizabeth Banks and Petra Korner at the 2009 Crystal + Lucy Awards in LA on June 12th. The event will be hosted by Chelsea Handler.
Aniston will receive the Crystal Awards fo...[Read on] |
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on GM Bankruptcy: 'We're Hitting Bottom'
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As GM prepares for the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history,
let’s reflect on what GM and its workers have contributed to this
country, and what the future holdsGM Bankruptcy | 06/01/2009 1:10 pm
As General Motors prepares itself for the ...[Read on] |
The Hailee Steinfeld Nomination Debate
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As the debate about Oscar nominations concludes this week, one interesting conversation that has been going on is the debate about whether True Grit actress Hailee Steinfeld should be placed in the best actress or best supporting actress category.
The ...[Read on] |
Book Review: The Cinderella Deal
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Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 288
Date Started: 9/22/10
Date Finished: 9/24/10
Simple Summary: Daisy and Linc are total opposites. Linc needs a fake fiance for the weekend to impress the university’s dean and thinks of Daisy. Unfortunately for Linc, to...[Read on] |
Bill O'Reilly Is (Still) An Asshole
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I know its never good to take to heart the words of a bigot- so I won't . Yet I can't help sharing this clip: a despicable piece within which O'Reilly claims Jennifer Aniston's honest words on single parenthood, are "destructive to society".
Watch are...[Read on] |
Book Review: Maybe This Time
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Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 352
Date Started: 9/4/10
Date Finished: 9/8/10
Simple Summary: After a decade of being divorced Archer asks his ex, Andie, to be caretaker/ nanny for his distant (second) cousins at a supposedly haunted house.
Rating: ★...[Read on] |
Are Team Jennifer and Team Angelina the New Stuarts and Tudors?
| The feuding queens of Tony-nominated Mary Stuart call to mind a pair of Hollywood divas.
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Is Bill O’Reilly’s Feud with Jennifer Aniston His Oddest Ever?
| Bill O’Reilly and Jennifer Aniston are now in a public feud. (In case you had any bets riding on whether/when this match-up would come to fruition, now is the time to collect.) In conjunction with her new film about sperm donation and pregnancy, Ani...[Read on] |
You Give Me One Dollar, I’ll Earn You $44
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Sometimes I don’t know how Forbes comes up with all these lists that they run. Here is their latest. Actresses who provide the biggest bang for the buck.
The woman who provides the biggest bang for the buck is Naomi Watts. She doesn’t star in b...[Read on] |
Jennifer Aniston is not destructive to our society
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A big Friday fuck you to Bill O’Reilly for calling Jennifer Aniston destructive to our society and diminishing the role of dads when making comments in promotion of her new film The Switch.
The film is about a woman who decides to get pregnant with a...[Read on] |
I really appreciate Jennifer Aniston's recent comments on single parenthood
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During a recent press conference, Jennifer Aniston spoke out in favor of non-traditional families, single motherhood, and the wonderful advantages women have today. What she was referring to is the ability of women to have kids , such as the character s...[Read on] |
Women actors make way less money than men
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I’m sure this is no shock to anyone but the new Forbes list of top earning actresses is out and while some women earn a ton of money from acting and endorsements, they make way les than their male peers.
The top female earner was Angelina Jolie with $2...[Read on] |
Women Making Movies
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The New York Times does it again! Just a couple short weeks after their girl-tastic issue of the NYT Magazine, yesterday they ran an article about the surprisingly large presence of female directors at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
In additio...[Read on] |
Winter’s Bone Scores Multiple Indie Spirit Nominations
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Winter’s Bone the big winner at the Gotham awards on Monday evening scored seven nominations for the 26th Independent Spirit Awards. The awards will be given out the day before the Oscars on February 26th.
The Kids Are All Right was right behin...[Read on] |
The Award Season: The Status of Women
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Last week there were two pieces written about women and the awards season. The first from Sharon Waxman in the Wrap lamented the fact that films that star women are being crowded out of the best picture field (like that’s news?); and the second ...[Read on] |
Throwing it back:12 year old girl sues over a milestone baseball
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A 12-year-old Florida girl who grabbed a historic home run ball hit by Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard over the summer has her prize back after suing the team for its return.
According to the AP, the July home run against the Florida Marlins ...[Read on] |
Women dominate top of the Forbes celebrity list
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Two African American women — Oprah and Beyonce — are the two top celebrities according to Forbes. Awesome. They are followed by James Cameron who made a pot of money off Avatar and Lady Gaga who has had a serious breakout year. Other women in ...[Read on] |
The world’s most powerful celebrities are women
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Forbes has published another one of its lists this time the world’s most powerful celebrities. Since it’s a celebrity list and is (as they say) “a measure of power based on money and fame,” I’m not surprised that women dominate the top of the ...[Read on] |
The invisibility of female professional sports
| This might seem insignificant to some, but it is another example of how female professional sports are erased. Last night I was at the Sugarland concert at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Near the end of the concert Sugarland played a cover o...[Read on] |
Become an Eco-preneur
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This fall I had the chance to write an article about three eco-preneurs. Rianna not only started her own holistic beauty line, Organic to Green, she also launched ReuseCycle, a program where she collects, sanitizes, and reuses glass bottles from local re...[Read on] |
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball
| The topic of women and baseball is one frequently mentioned on this blog; just recently we posted about the Indiana teenager whose lawsuit integrated high school baseball in her state. There's also been much buzz lately about the International Baseball F...[Read on] |
Can Fashion Icon Michelle Obama Wear the Same Thing Twice?
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Yes, the day is coming when the First Lady may do the unspeakable — ‘repeat’ an outfit!
Will this cause outrage or applause? Simon Doonan, Isaac Mizrahi and four other top fashion professionals weigh inThe Etceterist | Today 10:25 am
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