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Happy Birthday Meryl Streep
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Feminist actress Meryl Streep is 60 years old today. Here are some quotes which exemplifies why she is so beloved:
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
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Integr...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: The economics of being Meryl Streep
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It’s too bad the Meryl Streep’s movies don’t come with action figures or a McDonald’s tie-in…because the woman has the midas touch way beyond the box office.
Here’s some other things that can be attributed to the Streep effect:
- The bump in...[Read on] |
Sony to release Mommy and Me starring Meryl Streep and Tina Fey
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Sony Pictures is having a good summer on the women front. It’s got Salt in theatres now and will be releasing Eat Pray Love in two weeks and I just realized that it will be also releasing Burlesque with Cher and Christina Aguliera this Thanksgiving ...[Read on] |
Women actors make way less money than men
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I’m sure this is no shock to anyone but the new Forbes list of top earning actresses is out and while some women earn a ton of money from acting and endorsements, they make way les than their male peers.
The top female earner was Angelina Jolie with $2...[Read on] |
It’s Complicated Trailer
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I couldn’t hold this one. Had to share immediately!
As you head out to see Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie & Julia here is Meryl Streep’s next film to look forward to. I am beyond excited for this film.
Nancy Meyers + Meryl Streep = AWESOME...[Read on] |
FLASH! Meryl Streep's Newfound Hollywood Bankability
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‘It’s completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it!’ according to a new interviewFLASH! FROM LIZ SMITH | Today 2:15 pm
FLASH! Here’s some good news. Meryl Streep, the woman insiders thought would be totally “ruined...[Read on] |
Anticipation Grows for Julie & Julia
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This summer as usual is full of big action packed blockbusters AND for the second year in a row (and the last 3 out of 4 years) a Meryl Streep flick. I still wish we would get over the whole counterprogramming and fluke discussion. The thing I love mo...[Read on] |
Julie & Julia
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If you’ve ever been to a Weight Watchers meeting one of the first things you are told is to never, ever go to the supermarket when you are hungry. The same should be said for seeing the film Julie & Julia which opens today in almost 3000 theatres (mor...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Nancy Meyers on It's Complicated
| I’m under thirty, I’m not married, and I’m not a woman. So when speaking with Nancy Meyers about her new movie, It’s Complicated, I felt a bit like an interloper. I had the same feeling when I saw the film at a screening packed wit...[Read on] |
When Meryl met Tina
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When I saw this picture I tried to come up with my idea of what these two awesome women said to each other on the red carpet at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards this past Saturday. Every scenario I wrote was so lame that I can’t post them. Any of y...[Read on] |
Countdown: One Week to Julie & Julia
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While The Proposal with Sandra Bullock has exceeded expectations, we all know the one movie that women have been waiting for all summer is now only one week away — Julie and Julia. I have a sense that women are going to come out and see this in droves...[Read on] |
Bette Midler talks women and funny
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I can’t think of the last time I saw a movie starring Bette Midler that wasn’t on a basic cable station. I remember a time when she was everywhere. Guess its been over a decade now since her last good movie which I feel is The First Wives Club....[Read on] |
Awards Watch: A Mixed Bag of a Weekend
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Kathryn Bigelow at the Broadcast Film Critics Awards
My weekend started out with a second viewing of The Hurt Locker. I had seen it so long ago and I needed a refresher on it as the awards season gets into high gear. It was actually better the seco...[Read on] |
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch: Ice Dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White
| Charlie White and Meryl Davis. Courtesy of NBC/USOC. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend, Charlie White, 22, flipped Meryl Davis, 23, over his shoulder and skated backwards on one leg as she faced the opposite direction and balanced on h...[Read on] |
You Give Me One Dollar, I’ll Earn You $44
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Sometimes I don’t know how Forbes comes up with all these lists that they run. Here is their latest. Actresses who provide the biggest bang for the buck.
The woman who provides the biggest bang for the buck is Naomi Watts. She doesn’t star in b...[Read on] |
It’s Complicated
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If you are a Nancy Meyers fan the good news for you is that It’s Complicated will make you happy, but if you have issues with Nancy Meyers and her filmmaking style this one won’t sway you her way. It’s Complicated is pure Nancy Meyers for better o...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Double Dose
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Jeers to the Hollywood Reporter for convening a year end discussion with high-profile producers round-table without a SINGLE WOMAN! Please don’t tell me a single female producer was not available.
Here are two points, from the conversation of note:...[Read on] |
The commodification of female empowerment
| Have daughters supplanted sons as the repository of hope in tough economic times?
New York Times contributor Peggy Orenstein has noticed a trend across a whole range of sectors over the last several months from big-box stores to high-end fashion to wirel...[Read on] |
Holiday Movie Preview- Lots for and about women
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I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontr...[Read on] |
Oscar Campaigning
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You have to check out the NY Magazine piece that Mark Harris wrote on the Oscar campaign. The more I read and learn about this stuff, the more it resembles politics with handlers telling people what to wear, what to say, where to go and how to act.
It ...[Read on] |
Forever Cher
| Cher doesn’t court the spotlight, but she still knows how to command it. Five decades after first stealing the show, and with a new movie, Burlesque, the iconic polymath sounds off to Krista Smith about Sonny, Meryl, and her two least favorite women in ...[Read on] |
Nora Ephron to Women Directors and Writers: Stop Whining and Just Do It
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Ariel Levy who has been kicking some serious ass in writing profiles in the New Yorker of late, spent some time with Nora Ephron as she readies Julie & Julia for release next month. (You can only read the article online if you have a subscription to the...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The BAFTA Long List
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Certain of the Oscar categories release long list before the final nominations but BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has produced a long list in all its categories before whittling it down to the final five in each.
An Education (a...[Read on] |
Early thoughts on the Oscar nominations
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This morning I have such a feeling of relief over Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination. Since the Academy has such a shitty track record of honoring women, I thought in back of my mind that they just might give her (and us) the big finger.
But those thoughts...[Read on] |
Could a woman get nominated for best director this year?
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Another of the post-Cannes write ups include a supposition that 2009 might be a year where a woman could get a best director nod which would be the first since Sophia Coppola in 2003 for Lost in Translation. (H/T to Guy Lodge from In Contention for even...[Read on] |
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