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I.M.F. Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Accused of Sex Crimes, to Plead “Not Guilty”
| Photo via I.M.F./Wikipedia.Dominique Strauss-Kahn: it’s a name you may not have heard before Saturday, but likely one you’ve been hearing quite a bit since. Strauss-Kahn—or “D.S.K.”, in the economical parlance of Twitter and the European press...[Read on] |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gets star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Some good news. The awesome comedy of Julia Louis-Dreyfus is being publicly recognized this morning in Hollywood with Julia receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In a piece in Variety Dreyfus talked about her comedy idols:
I’ve always adm...[Read on] |
Bad-ass high school students get misogynist songs banned from prom
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Love this.
Twenty songs that refer to women as "hos" and other derogatory names won't be played at the Arcadia High prom Saturday night.
That's because senior Madeline Conrique and fellow members of the Women's Health and Issues Club brokered a deal wit...[Read on] |
Bad-ass high school students get misogynist songs banned from prom
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Love this.
Twenty songs that refer to women as "hos" and other derogatory names won't be played at the Arcadia High prom Saturday night.
That's because senior Madeline Conrique and fellow members of the Women's Health and Issues Club brokered a deal wit...[Read on] |
Kelly Clark wins Copper Mountain Grand Prix
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Copper Mountain has a longstanding history with the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix tour, having hosted events in 1998, 1999 and last season.
Last week, the Copper halfpipe was stacked with big air and beauty as the best women in the sport hit up the 22-fo...[Read on] |
Madeleine Stowe trades acting for directing
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Madeline Stowe best known for her role in The Last of the Mohicans has been sitting on a script she wrote for over five years because she hoped to star in it. She wrote Unbound Captives under the pseudonym OC Humphrey with her husband Brian Benben back ...[Read on] |
In Memoriam: Sally Menke
| Quentin Tarantino and editor Sally Menke at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, February 18, 2007. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images. As most film enthusiasts undoubtedly know by now, Oscar-nominated editor Sally Menke was found dead in Los Angeles’s sprawling G...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day Katie Couric
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Princeton invited Katie to be its first female Class Day speaker and she made sure they knew how unacceptable that is:
But, actually, I do have a bone to pick with you. I have discovered I am the first female Class Day speaker in Princeton’s history. O...[Read on] |
Zero Progress Made on Gender Disparity in Films Targeted at Kids
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Some bad news from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
They released a new study: Gender Disparity On Screen and Behind the Camera in Family Films, done by Stacy L. Smith, PhD and Marc Choueiti, at the USC Annenberg School for Communication...[Read on] |
TEDWomen: Lady Lecturers
| Last weekend marked the first-ever TEDWomen conference, dedicated to exploring how women and girls are reshaping the future. The program, designed as an exchange of ideas, featured dozens of dynamic speakers on “how women think and work, communicate and...[Read on] |
Teach yourself a second language this summer
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I’ve always wanted to be fluent in French. Heck, I’ve always wanted to be fluent in multiple languages. But when it came to paying attention in my high school and college language courses and excelling, I didn’t do so swell.There were activities tha...[Read on] |
Children’s Books with a Healthy Dose of Chick Power
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Do you remember when you were six and you cared for nothing else in the world but running through the sprinkler for hours, and then finishing it off with a lime popsicle?
Back then boys were gross, your energy was at full-blast 24/7, and your hero could ...[Read on] |
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