"let-us-play" Articles & Blogs:
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] |
April Movies Spring Open With 'Queen to Play'
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(WOMENSENEWS)--April has already sprung some great movies so let's catch up.
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Nora and Delia Ephron New Off-Broadway Play
| Nora and Delia Ephron. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best...[Read on] |
Golf Like a Girl
| For a long time, golf was a very male (I might even say “white”) sport. Even now, there are some golf courses closed to women during the busy weekend times, and it remains a sport that intimidates many women, partly because many of the opportunities t...[Read on] |
The Tonys and Hollywood
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photo by Brian Bedder/Getty Images
Last night one of the things that was so interesting about the Tony Awards was that three of the four acting trophies were taken by current Hollywood actors. Catherine Zeta-Jones won best actress in a musical for A ...[Read on] |
Cancer Warrior: The Return
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(Guest Blog by Mel Majoros, a breast cancer survivor and avid hockey player)
Most people don’t understand why I play hockey. It is mostly a guys sport. When I tell people I play they just give me “that look” you know the one, oh right YOU play h...[Read on] |
Video: Play Soccer So They Can
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If you play soccer or are a fan, you know why it’s called the Beautiful Game. Soccer is a global language that has the power to unify people. Last weekend, a group of players got together in Los Angeles so that others around the world can have the o...[Read on] |
Bloggers and ethical decision-making
| A recent post on Eye on Sports Media outlines the response of a local paper (the Athens Banner Herald) and that of a blogger who learned about the DUI arrest of a local personality who provides play-by-play and analysis for UGA sports teams. The b...[Read on] |
Judith Ivey is busy
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Judith Ivey as Ann Landers
Judith Ivey has had a long TV career, but lately I haven’t seen her in many things. The good news is that it looks like she’ll be quite visible here in NY as she follows the path of many female actors as they get older ...[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] |
Theatre Awards
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The arrival of marks the end of the theatre season here in NY so it’s awards time. The Tony Awards just deal with Broadway plays and there are other awards that include both Broadway and off-Broadway. I always find the mixed awards so fascinating be...[Read on] |
Mackenzie Brown tells why girls who love baseball should ignore critics — and what she was thinking when she threw out the first pitch at a Mets game
| On April 21, Bayone, N.J. Little Leaguer Mackenzie Brown pitched a perfect game, retiring all 18 boys who got up to bat; she was invited to throw out the first pitch a Met’s game a few days later.
By Mackenzie Brown
I started playing baseball for the ...[Read on] |
Food inside the Obama White House
| I was watching NBC’s Special Inside the Obama White House. I have to take pride in that my husband was on the production team making it happen.
Of course, the food expert in me has to find my personal interest hook – the food! So here’s a play-by-p...[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] |
Katie Reyes: Breaking down barriers one game at a time
| by Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
Yesterday, a quiet thirteen-year-old girl made history just doing something she loves – playing baseball. Katie Reyes may or may not have known that her actions made history, although s...[Read on] |
Guess the Sentences in Bristol Palin®’s Forthcoming Memoir
| Unemployed twentysomething dilettante Bristol Palin® has another bullet point to add to her résumé: “Book Writer!!” Politics Daily has unearthed from the recesses of Amazon evidence of an “Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir....[Read on] |
President Obama becomes first sitting president to attend WNBA game
| U.S. President Barack Obama, his daughter Sasha, and Shelia Johnson, owner
of the Washington Mystics, attend a Women’s National Basketball Association
(WNBA) game between the Washington Mystics and the Tulsa Shock in
Washington on August 1, 2010...[Read on] |
Why police the border between women's and men's sports?
| In 2004, Mexican National Women's Team superstriker Maríbel Dominguez was signed to a two-year contract with Celaya FC, a second division men's team. FIFA stepped in with an official prohibition and the assertion "There must be a clear separation between...[Read on] |
Scarlett Johansson to Be Black Widow in 'Iron Man 2'
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Actress will play spy in next installment of Marvel Comics franchisePost | Today 9:35 am
Actress Scarlett Johansson will don a skintight black outfit when she plays Black Widow in the forthcoming "Iron Man" sequel.
Rumor had it that Johans...[Read on] |
Stereotyping Latina Actresses
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Even though you probably wouldn’t recgnize her name, you have defintely seen Lupe Ontiveros on some TV show or movie over the last couple of decades. I will always remember her as America Ferrara’s mom in Real Women Have Curves.
Ontiveros has spent...[Read on] |
Ways to Stretch Your Golf Budget
| If you’re like most of us in today’s troubled economic times you are finding it difficult to play as much golf as you would like and to afford the necessary equipment. Certainly there more important things in this world than playing golf, like eating,...[Read on] |
Women's Equality
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Going to the polls to vote, or stepping out on the court to play a basketball game, I realize that I have a voice. My voice stands for all women. Women who were not and still cannot vote for anything. For women who cannot participate in sports a...[Read on] |
What I learned as a girl in rec football: How to counter the cheap shot
| By Lindsay Rico
Why did I decide to play tackle football in the 6th grade? Ever see the movie “Little Giants”? It’s about a ragtag football team with a coach who is just as much of a reject as his players. The one girl (they call her “Icebox”) ...[Read on] |
Moms, daughters play ball for cancer research
| Pink will be plentiful at this week’s third annual Susan G. Komen Girls Flag Football Tournament.
The three-day event, which includes two days of competition and a Bigger and Better Family Fun Night, is a fund-raiser for Susan G. Komen For the Cure.
Mor...[Read on] |
WNBA’s Sky to host celebrity team in battle of the sexes
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The Chicago Sky will host the first-ever Basketball Battle of the Sexes game when it takes on an all-male team from the Entertainment League in a June exhibition contest.
The game, at 7 p.m. June 2 p.m. at the UIC Pavilion, will be played with WNBA offic...[Read on] |
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