"lisa-coleman" Articles & Blogs:
The Creative Emmy Winners 2010
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Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin
The Emmy folks like like the Oscar folks give out their technical and “smaller” awards on a different night from their high profile TV event. The big Emmys are next weekend.
Betty White who killed on Hot in Clevelan...[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] |
Our Bodies, Our Stilettos
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Our own Lisa Hix has graciously shared this blog with us that she has posted over at CollectorsWeekly.com. Enjoy! Our Bodies, Our StilettosBy Lisa Hix (Copyright Collectors Weekly 2010)A writer explains the reasons behind her love-hate relationship w...[Read on] |
Pops and Sunshine – a heartwarming story about life and the Duramed FUTURES Tour
| Pops and Sunshine is a novel that takes us through the emotional journey of Lisa Nelson, Rookie on the Duramed FUTURES Tour, as she faces her last chance to make it to the LPGA and the family pressures she has back home in Tennessee.
By chance, Lisa find...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Lisa Scottoline
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I read this interview yesterday and it totally cracked me up. I haven’t read Scottoline’s books but I am now adding them to my list. I guess I must be the only one who hasn’t read them because there are 25 million in print. She now has a non-f...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Producing Precious
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Women & Hollywood has a fantastic guest post by L.A. Collins in which she interviews Lisa Cortes, the executive producer of Precious. She writes:
At the SAG Awards, critics darling and Oscar front-runner Mo'Nique flipped the script. She took a special, u...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: New Movies Alert
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Lisa Cholodenko
Just read about two new movies where two sets of women play lovers.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as partners and mothers in Kids. The film is about their kids’ search for their sperm donor (played by Mark Ruffalo) altering ...[Read on] |
Run for Congo Women
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This is pretty good.
A few weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine highlighted a number of individuals as part of a series about grassroots work being done worldwide to help others in need. One of the women profiled, along with her mission, caught our at...[Read on] |
Getting to know your new WNBA
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With the Final Four upon us and the WNBA draft taking place next week, it’s time to take a look at the new class of professional ballers.
Last year was considered the deepest class in WNBA history. This year there isn’t as much depth but with roste...[Read on] |
Mad Men women writers part whatever
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I don’t know why this is one of my bugaboos but every since Mad Men put all its female writers out in the Wall Street Journal before last year’s premiere and declared the show was basically written by women I’ve been watching the women writers on ...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: August 13-15
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The dynamic of the weekend was set up as adversarial all week.
Will the girls beat the boys? Will the boys punch the girls? No wonder we are still so fucked up about gender at the movies. If we didn’t set the movies up as an us vs. them dynamic...[Read on] |
Hurricane Hazel: 88 year old mayor of Mississauga, Ontario
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This woman is awesome! Thanks to Lisa for the link. Apparently this show is kind of like the Canadian version of Colbert.
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Sparks to retire Lisa Leslie’s jersey
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The Los Angeles Sparks will retire the jersey (No. 9) of WNBA legend Lisa Leslie on tonight, August 10th as the Sparks match-up against the Indiana Fever at 7:00pm at STAPLES Center.
Leslie, who led the Sparks to back-to-back WNBA Championships in 2001 a...[Read on] |
White House Party Crasher Michaele Salahi Insists That Whoopi Goldberg Hit Her
| Oh dear: Real Housewives of D.C. participant Michaele Salahi has alleged that during her Wednesday appearance on daytime television’s The View, host Whoopi Goldberg perpetrated “outrageous abuse” upon the White House party crasher. Salahi’s lawyer...[Read on] |
Lady Salamanders rep US at Homeless World Cup in Brazil
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Eight women from homeless shelters across the country make up the Lady Salamanders, a street soccer soccer currently in Rio, Brazil for the 8th Annual Homeless World Cup competition which wraps Sunday Sept 26th.
Philanthropist and businesswoman Sheila Jo...[Read on] |
WNBA'S Lady Liberty's attend 4 Season style management preview party
| Cappie
Pondexter might be one of the WNBA's biggest and brightest basketball stars but
off the court, she's a fashion icon in the world of sports. A Glam Slam
recntly spoke with Cappie at the Blend Showroom in NYC, where she shared her
passion for fashion...[Read on] |
Why is there no male birth control on the market yet?
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Apparently because scientists think men won't take it. According to an article in Science Progress, outdated ideas of who's responsibility birth control and contraception is, has put the burden on women's shoulders.
Via Broadsheet.
Let's pretend you ...[Read on] |
10 'Obama Women' Who Are Changing Washington
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These powerful African American women, newly nicknamed the ‘Obama Women,’ have taken big jobs in the new administration and are some of the driving forces behind this new era of changePhoto Essay | Today 2:25 pmA new wave of women has hit Wash...[Read on] |
Women's Hoops Hoopla: UConn Champions, WNBA Draft & more
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In case you’ve been living in a hole, here’s an update on what’s been happening in the world of women’s basketball.
On Tuesday night, the UConn women finished out their perfect season by beating Louisville 76-54 and capturing the NCAA championshi...[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] |
Interview with Lisa Cholodenko, Director and co-writer of The Kids Are All Right
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A couple of months ago I was able to interview Lisa Cholodenko for a piece I wrote for the Human Right Campaign magazine. That piece will be out soon. (I will of course post it when it is available online.) Here is the rest of the interview.
Wome...[Read on] |
4th Annual Los Angeles WISE Panel and Networking Event
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If you live in Los Angeles and are interested in pursuing a career in sports, are looking to make connections in the industry, or want to hear from a panel of successful athletes and businesswomen including Women’s Sports Foundation President Jessica Me...[Read on] |
Few Details on Detained Journalists From Al Gore's Current TV
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Whereabouts of Euna Lee and Laura Ling — sister of former ‘View’ co-host Lisa Ling — unknown; U.S. working with Chinese, Swiss on releaseAmerican Journalists Detained in North Korea | Today 11:00 am
Time may not be on the side o...[Read on] |
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] |
New hosts for At the Movies- Another couple of guys
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Fired critics Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz
What’s wrong with these pictures?
One of the remaining movie review shows which peaked years ago when it starred Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert is At the Movies. Before last season they replaced Ebert and Sisk...[Read on] |
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