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Trailer: Black Swan
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Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis star as competing ballerinas. This film looks at little like The Turning Point meets Single White Female.
Why do women always have to try and kill their competition?
Still, it looks good. One of the better trailers I...[Read on] |
Sundance 2011: Where Are All the Stars?
| Vera Farmiga in Higher Ground. Photo by Molly Hawkey. Those already looking past this awards season to 2012 got their first bit of critical-darling chum yesterday when Sundance announced its 2011 lineup. While we’re pretty sure we know who will dominate...[Read on] |
A Powerful Noise - The Impact of One Voice
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Take part in an exclusive International Women’s Day event on March 5, 2009, featuring the acclaimed documentary film, A Powerful Noise, followed by a live town hall discussion to 450 movie theatres.
Town hall panelists include former U.S. Secretary of...[Read on] |
Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch
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Here are the women on Variety’s 10 screenwriters to Watch. It is really focused on comedy writers and seems to have a bit of a feminist bent. Here’s to hoping these women make some good films that we get to see in theatres.
Emma Forrest
“I’m...[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] |
Swimmer Natalie Coughlin among new “Dancing with the Stars” cast
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Swimmer Natalie Coughlin to appear on DWTS
Natalie Coughlin can do the backstroke and the breastroke in world record time, but can she do the tango?
Coughlin, who has made a big splash in the Olympics, will attempt to excel in the ballroom during the ...[Read on] |
Women Centric Films at Toronto
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It totally sucks that there are so few female directors at Toronto. But since I am a look on the bright side kind of girl (ha ha), there are a great many interesting women centric films that will be premiering that I am excited to see (if I get press ...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
Raising the barre: The reinvention of classical ballet
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If you think Swan Lake or The Nutcracker when you think of ballet, think again. Many contemporary troupes are forging new ways to enchant modern audiences by demonstrating that ballet is a living dance form. Check out just a few of the ways in which bal...[Read on] |
Natalie Gulbis throws out first pitch at A’s game
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We’ve written about a lot of ladies throwing out the first pitch this baseball season. LA Sol Soccer player Marta, golfer Michelle Wie, and Sparks players Delisha Milton Jones and Tina Thompson graced the blue carpet by throwing out the first pitc...[Read on] |
The Hailee Steinfeld Nomination Debate
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As the debate about Oscar nominations concludes this week, one interesting conversation that has been going on is the debate about whether True Grit actress Hailee Steinfeld should be placed in the best actress or best supporting actress category.
The ...[Read on] |
Golfers Creamer, Gulbis get signature shoes
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Paula Creamer and Natalie Gulbis are two of the LPGA’s biggest stars. Even if you’re not a golf fan, you may recognize Gulbis from reality TV shows like “The Apprentice” or her many magazine covers. Creamer’s Citizen Watch commercials ran du...[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] |
The 10 Toughest Ladies of Film
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For years women have been kicking butt and taking names but very few of them ever get the recognition they deserve. One place this isn’t true is on film. Although the following 10 ladies may not all be real they are all fine examples of powerful, toug...[Read on] |
Female composer nominated for Ivor Novello Award
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Here’s a topic that I don’t focus enough on: women who write music for films. Suffice it to say there are not a lot of them. One of the most well known is Rachel Portman who was the first female to win an Academy Award for Emma in 1996. Another on...[Read on] |
Chloe
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When you strip it down, Chloe is really about women and aging and the different value placed on men and women as they age. The film written by Erin Cressida Wilson based on the French film Natalie and directed by Atom Egoyan, tells the story of Catherin...[Read on] |
More Women at Toronto
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The Toronto Film Festival has added more films including Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria as the closing night film. (description from indiewire)
Set between 1836, the year before her ascension, to 1840, the year she married Prince Alb...[Read on] |
Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen shot to death in Beverly Hills
| These kind of things just don't happen. Not on Sunset Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Not to a high profile entertainment executive.
Veteran Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, 64,was found fatally shot after crashing her Mercedes into a lamp-post at about half pa...[Read on] |
Morningstar Commission Event: Inside the Hollywood Jewish Noggin
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The stories of Hollywood’s founding are legendary. The twitter version for the uninitiated: A bunch of jewish immigrants migrated from NY to LA and created this new industry. If you want the real story read Neal Gabler’s How the Jews Invented Holl...[Read on] |
Ad’s a fake, but let’s get real about butts. Strong is big (and beautiful).
| By Sarah Odell
I was an odd mix of girly girl and tomboy growing up. I only wore dresses that twirled, and a perfect Friday afternoon left me covered in dirt, running around a field hockey pitch in cleats and shin guards. There were no showers near the f...[Read on] |
White House Roundtable celebrates Title IX’s 37th anniversary
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Today, the Women’s Sports Foundation represents the female athletes of the United States in a celebration of the anniversary of Title IX by visiting the White House for a special roundtable discussion.
“At 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, the White Hou...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Independent Spirit Award Nominations
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Isn’t the indie world supposed to be better for women? Guess not that much better since women were virtually shut out of all the major awards categories for the Independent Spirit Awards which will be held in LA on Friday, March 5th.
Here are some of...[Read on] |
Celebrating Earth Day: Celebrities, Authors & Supporters
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It seems celebrities support everything nowadays, from classy New York restaurant openings to their hometown baseball teams. But perhaps the most significant celebrity-approved concept is the green movement.
After all, the staggering facts regarding glob...[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] |
Twitter: A huge hit in sports, especially for women
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When Jayda Evans of the Seattle Times called me a few weeks ago and asked me what I thought about Twitter’s role in the future of women’s sports, I told her that it could only be a good thing.
Jayda, a Seattle Times blogger and writer, later publishe...[Read on] |
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