"kate-whoriskey" Articles & Blogs:
A woman gets her own theatre
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Great news. Rising star director Kate Whoriskey has been tapped by the Intiman Theatre in Seattle to take over as Artistic Director when current star director Barlett Sher leaves in 2010.
She will join a small club of female artistic directors in charg...[Read on] |
Pity Contest: Kate Gosselin Visits Sarah Palin’s Alaska
| A forthcoming episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska features a cameo by fellow TLC employee Kate Gosselin, star of Kate Gosselin’s Southeastern Pennsylvania. Gosselin transports her eight children to Palin’s home in Wasilla, Alaska, for a bi-family campin...[Read on] |
An actress you should know: Kate del Castillo
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If you watch telenovelas you will probably know Kate del Castillo very well (she has appeared in nine), but now luckily, the English speaking world is getting to know her better.
I saw her last year in La Misma Luna and now she has an arc on Weeds as P...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kate Winslet
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Winslet just won $40,000 in damages from the Daily Mail which said she lied about her exercise regime.
Just so bizarre. Why does anyone care what her exercise regime is. Seems to me that these papers are finally getting caught out for lying when pe...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Watch: Palace Defends Kate’s “Off-the-Cuff” Diet Comments
| Kate Middleton flips pancakes in Belfast. Photograph by Tim Rooke/Rex/Rex USA.
The royal wedding of Prince William and the future Princess Catherine is just 38 days away. From the daily barrage of tabloid folly, VF.com’s Royal Watcher in London pluc...[Read on] |
Kate Middleton’s Parents to Contribute Six-Figure Sum to Cost of Wedding
| Photograph by Tim Graham/Getty Images.New York, N.Y.—“It is something they absolutely wanted to do, and William graciously accepted,” a senior aide tells Vanity Fair writer Katie Nicholl, confirming the rumor that the Middletons would be making a si...[Read on] |
Waity Katie No More: Kate Middleton and Prince William to Wed in 2011
| After a rather lengthy courtship that began when the two were students at St. Andrews college, Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged to be married. According to a statement by William’s father, Prince Charles, the marriage will take place next s...[Read on] |
Dearth of Female Support for GOP
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The GOP falls 22 points behind the Democrats in terms of women’s allegiancePost | Today 9:50 am
The Republican Party needs to find a way to attract more women, because a recent Gallup Poll shows that only 27% of women identify as Republican. Meanw...[Read on] |
Remembering Elizabeth Edwards, Power Mom
| Elizabeth Edwards with her daughter Cate at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Boston. By Elise Amendola/File/AP Photo. I will remember Elizabeth Edwards first and always as a mom. I think that’s the role she cherished most among the breathtak...[Read on] |
The Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton Breaks with Tradition by Arriving in a Car
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The Royal Wedding date is upon us! On Friday, April 29, the world will watch as Kate Middleton arrives at Westminster Abbey a commoner, and departs a Princess as the wife of Prince William. But there's a modern twist in all this pomp and circumstanc...[Read on] |
Lynn Nottage Wins Pulitzer for Drama
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Playwright Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her play Ruined which tells the story of the women of the Congo whose lives have been “ruined” by systemic rape and torture.
Nottage was inspired by Berthold Brecht’s Mother Courage to tell...[Read on] |
Please Give written and directed by Nicole Holofcener
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To me, a new film from writer/director Nicole Holofcener is a reason to rejoice. One reason is because she unapologetically tells stories from a female perspective. But one would be remiss and quite frankly an idiot to paint her work with the chick fl...[Read on] |
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Rooney Mara
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Here she is folks, here she is world, here’s Lisbeth (borrowing from Sondheim’s Rose’s Turn)
Don’t know anything about her except that she’s the sister of Kate Mara (who’s an actress too), grew up in a family that owned the Pittsburgh Ste...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Weather Watch: Cloudy with a Chance of Majesty
| The MyWeather predictor.Just when you thought every aspect of the royal wedding had been thoroughly scrutinized, we turn our eyes to the skies for a weather prediction. According to the diligent folks at MyWeather, who have pinpointed the Westminster Abbe...[Read on] |
Is Sarah Ferguson's Former Aide Out to Get Her?
| Ever the considerate boyfriend, Prince William has promised Kate Middleton that he'll delay his first official overseas visit until after her 28th birthday on January 9. The Prince's January voyage to New Zealand constitutes his first overseas trip as a r...[Read on] |
Queen Rania's New United Nations Position
| Kate Middleton, the longtime girlfriend of Prince William, second in line to the British throne, was caught on video at the Online Marketing Show, in London. She was attending the two-day event on behalf of her parents' party-supplies company, Party Piece...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Watch: Even Will and Kate Have a Wedding Web Site Now
| A screen capture of the couple’s official wedding Web site. Courtesy of OfficialRoyalWedding2011.org. The royal wedding of Prince William and the future Princess Catherine is just 57 days away. From the daily barrage of tabloid folly, VF.com’s Royal W...[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] |
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] |
Cannes news about women directors
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The good news is that as the Cannes Film Festival has started the press is still asking questions about why there are no women in competition.
Here are some pieces that I found that address the topic.
Jury President Tim Burton in an interview with the N...[Read on] |
Christy Turlington – 41 Years Young and Loving Life
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Also from our Liz, a new controversy in the HamptonsLiz Smith | Today 12:00 am
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p>"The Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct," wrote that cynical philosopher W. Somerset Maugham.
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Can you name "the big six&quo...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Watch: Victoria Beckham to Donate Royal Trousseau?
| Victoria Beckham. Photograph via Patrick McMullan.
The royal wedding of Prince William and the future Princess Catherine is just a few months away. From the daily barrage of tabloid folly, VF.com’s Royal Watcher in London plucks the best for your weddin...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Watch: Libélula Designs “Ivory Satin and Lace” Confection for Middleton?
| Gowns from Libélula’s bespoke bridal collection. Courtesy Libélula Studio.
The royal wedding of Prince William and the future Princess Catherine is just 11 days away. From the daily barrage of tabloid folly, VF.com’s Royal Watche...[Read on] |
Rooney Mara to Play With Fire as Lisbeth Salander
| Rooney Mara in 2009. Photo courtesy of PatrickMcMullan.com. If you are like me, or, for that matter, like just about every other free citizen with functioning eyeballs and a rough grasp of phonics, you have been eagerly awaiting the news of which young ac...[Read on] |
Despite Myth, Anorexics Do Become Pregnant
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(WOMENSENEWS)--As a child with anorexia, I was too young to worry about losing my period.
But many of the older girls and women in my treatment center believed the loss of a regular period was a perk to the potentially deadly illness. With the loss of th...[Read on] |
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