"mary-kate-olsen" Articles & Blogs:
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] |
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] |
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 newest Beauty & the Beast is “Beastly”
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Pretty Smart: One of our fave characters is Belle.
Now comes word their will be a live-action, modern retelling of the children’s classic “Beauty and the Beast” told from the Beast’s point of view.
CBS Films has signed actress/singer Vanessa Hud...[Read on] |
Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
| Last week I talked to Mary Wineberg, lead-off leg of the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team. In 2009, she and her husband had their first child, Brooklyn Marie, who is now 9 months old. Mary is already back in shape and setting “post-...[Read on] |
Shake Those Bangs For Mary Travers
| I grew up listening to Peter, Paul, and Mary–my sisters and I belting ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ dramatically in our kitchen on many a rainy afternoon. While an enduring obsession with sixties culture and folk music grew out of this, so di...[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] |
Indian boxer Mary Kom wins World Championship
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The only Indian woman boxer, M C Mary Kom, created history after winning her fifth successive World Championship title in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Sunday, Sep 19th.
Kom won the title after beating Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6 in the finale.
The Manipuri...[Read on] |
Gee Whiz, Women Do Write Good Books
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Unlike the Publishers Weekly year end list which included no women, the NY Times has included a bunch of women on its 10 best list of 2009. In fact, 4 of the 5 fiction books are by women.
Here they are. Full list will appear in the December 13 book r...[Read on] |
Interview with Mary Kay Place Emmy Nominee from Big Love
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Mary Kay Place is nominated for an Emmy for her work as Adaleen Grant on the HBO show Big Love. The ceremony for her category — guest actress in a drama series — takes place this weekend on August 21st.
Women & Hollywood: Congrats on the Emmy nomi...[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] |
Sarah Palin and the Celebrity of Politics
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Joni Evans, Judith Martin, Liz Smith and Mary Wells talk about a new
breed of celebrities, Palin’s political future and more in the wOw
Conversation
Conversation | Today 12:00 am
LIZ: Do you know there’s no celebrity news to speak of? That&...[Read on] |
Are Team Jennifer and Team Angelina the New Stuarts and Tudors?
| The feuding queens of Tony-nominated Mary Stuart call to mind a pair of Hollywood divas.
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Mary-Louise Parker Does Not Smoke Weed, but She Has Licked a Pot Lollipop
| Photo by Robert Todd Williamson/h Magazine
I can recall the exact moment I fell in love with Mary-Louise Parker. It was during an Emmy roundtable last year hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, featuring Emmy-nominated actresses like Christina Applegate, Amy ...[Read on] |
Women Make Movies plays in SF
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Here’s a great opportunity for all of you in the Bay Area to see these great movies on the big screen. Usually the only way to see Women Make Movies films is at a festival or if it gets picked up for TV. But this week at the Roxie in SF, these fil...[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] |
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] |
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] |
Movie Review: Precious
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Precious is one intense and powerful movie. It’s about an obese, illiterate, sexually and physically abused African American girl who refuses to give up on herself when everything around her conspires to wreck her and beat her down.
The reason why th...[Read on] |
Gaga Almighty
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The Music Video for Lady Gaga's new single has leaked! Thank God for the internet. This song, is like some bizarre fan-fiction that Stefani Germanotta wrote while she was in her bible studies class at Catholic School. It's real weird. In ...[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] |
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