"julie-krone" Articles & Blogs:
Female jockey Julie Krone is a “Freak”
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I was delighted to read that award-winning filmmaker Katherine Brooks (”Loving Annabelle,” 2006, and “Waking Madison,” 2009) is making a film based on legendary female jockey Julie Krone. The film is called “Freak,” which refers to a racing...[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] |
Julie & Julia
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If you’ve ever been to a Weight Watchers meeting one of the first things you are told is to never, ever go to the supermarket when you are hungry. The same should be said for seeing the film Julie & Julia which opens today in almost 3000 theatres (mor...[Read on] |
The Tempest picked as NY Film Festival’s centerpiece
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The pedigree for The Tempest directed by Julie Taymor keeps growing. It will have its world premiere as the closing film at the Venice Film Festival in September, and now it has been tapped as the centerpiece film for this year’s NY Film Festival.
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Anticipation Grows for Julie & Julia
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This summer as usual is full of big action packed blockbusters AND for the second year in a row (and the last 3 out of 4 years) a Meryl Streep flick. I still wish we would get over the whole counterprogramming and fluke discussion. The thing I love mo...[Read on] |
Countdown: One Week to Julie & Julia
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While The Proposal with Sandra Bullock has exceeded expectations, we all know the one movie that women have been waiting for all summer is now only one week away — Julie and Julia. I have a sense that women are going to come out and see this in droves...[Read on] |
Anyone Who Says There Is Hardly Any Oil Left Ought to Take a Ride on Barataria Bay
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Julie Dermansky reports from New OrleansJulie Dermansky | 08/06/2010 7:30 pm
The government says 75 percent of the BP oil spill is gone. The well was capped. But when I went back on the water to see for myself, what I saw was as bad as it’s been.
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Female Creative Partnerships
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Julie White (l) and Theresa Rebeck
I am so sick and tired of all the stories about how women compete against each other (lots of them bullshit designed, I believe, to keep women from working together) that it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate wh...[Read on] |
A Green Backyard Barbecue
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July 4th is one of my favorite holidays. I like to celebrate with a backyard barbecue (of course) and by giving my husband an extra BIG hug (eight years ago, Ron and I met on Independence Day). This holiday weekend, Ron fired up the Weber. Over the years...[Read on] |
HBO Finally Gets a Feminist Show
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HBO has long been known for its boy oriented shows. The Sopranos, Entourage and even Big Love. But now us girls are making headway first with the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency and now with Women’s Studies from my buddy Theresa Rebeck.
How awesome is i...[Read on] |
Book Review: No One Lives Twice
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Author: Julie Moffett
Pages: N/A (e-book)
Series: Lexi Carmichael Mystery #1
Date Started: 9/20/10
Date Finished: 10/8/10
Simple Summary: Lexi is a NSA computer geek plunged into the world of spies and corruption after she receives documents from her frie...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: The economics of being Meryl Streep
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It’s too bad the Meryl Streep’s movies don’t come with action figures or a McDonald’s tie-in…because the woman has the midas touch way beyond the box office.
Here’s some other things that can be attributed to the Streep effect:
- The bump in...[Read on] |
Women & Wine - A Rose By Any Other Name
| I'm listening to the birds going crazy in the garden this a.m. - if only I could sing like that! - and all I can think of is Rose. It's not even going to be that warm out today - and the sun is masked by a haze of fog - so why is Rose on my mind? And what...[Read on] |
New, More Realistic "Sex and the City" to HBO
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Lizzy Caplan, who played a vampire blood junkie in True Blood last season and is a co-star of the hilarious Party Down, has signed on to produce a TV adaptation of Julie Klausner's memoir "I Don't Care About Your Band" on HBO. Klausner, Salon's Lady Busin...[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] |
The Backlash of Girly Culture and Online Media
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I’ve recently come across two online sources that take issue with what is basically the infantization of women and women’s media. There’s The Daily Beast’s “OMG! Women's Sites Need to Grow Up” by Tricia Romano and...[Read on] |
Nora Ephron to Women Directors and Writers: Stop Whining and Just Do It
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Ariel Levy who has been kicking some serious ass in writing profiles in the New Yorker of late, spent some time with Nora Ephron as she readies Julie & Julia for release next month. (You can only read the article online if you have a subscription to the...[Read on] |
Women directors in competition at Venice
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The good news is that there are women in competition.
The roster of competition titles was announced and there are 3 women directed films out of a total of 22. Plus we have Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as the closing film.
That’s 13.6%.
Clearly b...[Read on] |
A Woman on the Croisette: Julie Bertuccelli’s Film The Tree to close Cannes
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The Cannes Film Festival has woken up from it’s ridiculousness — they still do not get a pass on the fact that there are no female filmmakers in the competition — and have announced the Australian film The Tree written and directed by Julie Bertucce...[Read on] |
NYWIFT Muse Awards
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the NYWIFT Muse Awards which honored some amazing women including America Ferrara (Ugly Betty); Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Allison Silverman (formerly the Executive Producer of the Colbert Report); Andrea...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Double Dose
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Jeers to the Hollywood Reporter for convening a year end discussion with high-profile producers round-table without a SINGLE WOMAN! Please don’t tell me a single female producer was not available.
Here are two points, from the conversation of note:...[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] |
New York Film Festival announces lineup with only two female directors (plus two in a group film)
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The New York Film Festival which is the centerpiece of NY’s fall film season announced its lineup today and only two women are on the docket with film’s of their own.
That’s 7.4%.
I took out the film Revolucion which has 10 directors (and two ar...[Read on] |
Sarah Gilbert: from Roseanne to Talk Show Creator
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Now that Comic-Con has ended the excitement for us TV addicts is now focused on the upcoming fall TV season. This week began the annual dog and pony show TCA (which I’d love to see in person one day) with all the networks rolling out all the new sho...[Read on] |
It’s Complicated Trailer
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I couldn’t hold this one. Had to share immediately!
As you head out to see Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie & Julia here is Meryl Streep’s next film to look forward to. I am beyond excited for this film.
Nancy Meyers + Meryl Streep = AWESOME...[Read on] |
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