"people" Articles & Blogs:
'Witches' Burned in Kenya
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An angry mob killed five people, four of them women, accused of practicing witchcraftPost | Today 9:45 am
Turns out some people haven’t quite made it to the 21st century.
Five people were burned at the stake in Kenya last week because their ne...[Read on] |
Celine Dion is pregnant again at 41
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Céline Dion, now expecting her second child, is "very excited," says her doctor, Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, who performed the in vitro fertilization procedure that made the 41-year-old singer's pregnancy possible. When he called he...[Read on] |
Hell Hath No Fury Like Taylor Swift (Sorta) Scorned
| Taylor Swift is approaching promotion of her third album, Speak Now, with what can only be described as Nixonian paranoia—her label seems to fear that nothing short of a manufactured shitstorm of controversy will save it from tanking. Ahead of the disc...[Read on] |
Amy Sedaris Talks about New Book and Dicks on Letterman
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Check out this fantastic clip of Amy Sedaris being as funny and charming as ever on Letterman last week. She talks about her new book "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People" (out November 2nd), and even gives us a little taste of the kinds of crafty crafts...[Read on] |
100 People Who Have Changed the Lives of Women and Girls Globally
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Women Deliver honors 100 of the most inspiring people who have delivered results for girls and women globally. The organization, launched in 2007, is committed to bringing action against maternal death, focusing on maternal health as both a human ri...[Read on] |
Dolls team with AR Rahman for Slumdog’s Jai Ho
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The Pussycat Dolls have teamed up with two time Oscar winner A.R. Rahman for an English interpretation of the song “Jai Ho!”, the spectacular finale to the Oscar winner for Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire.
Listen here for a preview of A.R. Rahman a...[Read on] |
Where did Lady Vols come from?
| Well it came from a lady. Gloria Ray. She was the first female athletic director of women's sports at the University of Tennessee; a position she took over in 1977 after coaching women's tennis at UT. Here is what she said about creating the Lady Vols bra...[Read on] |
Why is Facebook's avatar a dude?
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Sociological Images has a great short post about Facebook's default avatar - which appears to be a white male.
Lisa makes the interesting point that when Facebook wants to represent people globally, they use avatars that look markedly different:
So ...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Regina King
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Regina King kicked a little Emmy butt in a piece on the Huffington Post. First, she talked about the lack of people of color nominated. She cited stats from the NY Daily News the that only 53 people of color were nominate...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Sir Ian McKellen
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I love it when guys stand up for their female colleagues. 4,000 people and Sir Ian McKellen have signed a petition urging British broadcasters to get a clue and stop discriminating against women over 45.
Here’s what he said:
People might have though...[Read on] |
Why every parent should watch Huge (with their kids)
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It’s kind of a shame that the brilliant new show Huge from Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life) and her daughter Savannah Dooley is airing during the summer when people are busy, outside, not watching TV and many of the targeted audience kids are at act...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama Gives Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Swank Guitar
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Two glamorous First Ladies meet in France for first time; Obama gives singer-songwriter Bruni a rad giftPost | Today 11:00 am
What’s the ultimate gift for a French First Lady who uses her spare time to record her fourth music album? Not a tea set,...[Read on] |
Out of a job, out of the paper
| Another friend got laid off at a newspaper yesterday.
She’s hard-working, diligent, talented and she covered a lot of women’s sports. And they let her go, in the middle of more widespread staff cuts, because they want to do things “differently.”
I...[Read on] |
Barbara Bush Stars in Marriage Equality Video, Really Steals Meghan McCain’s Thing
| A new video in support of gay marriage stars Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. Bush. “I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,” the Manhattan resident and Yale graduate says. “New York is about fairness and equality. And eve...[Read on] |
Tribeca 2010 – Monica and David
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I was able to take in a couple of films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. I wish I could have seen more, but that’s life. The three films I saw were all female directed: Cairo Time by Ruba Nadda; Monica and David by Ali Codina; and Joan Rivers -...[Read on] |
Rue McClanahan Dies at 76.
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The Best of Blanche.
The very amazing Rue McClanahan died this morning at 76 years young. Her character Blanche Deveraux on the Golden Girls was groundbreaking and forced the TV watching public to ...[Read on] |
Couric Ratings Rise 22% in Six Months
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Couric’s critics should eat their wordsPost | Today 11:10 am
Remember when naysayers predicted Katie Couric would bomb as anchor for "CBS Evening News"? Well, they were wrong — really wrong.
Page Six reports today that Couric&...[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] |
Jennifer Aniston is not destructive to our society
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A big Friday fuck you to Bill O’Reilly for calling Jennifer Aniston destructive to our society and diminishing the role of dads when making comments in promotion of her new film The Switch.
The film is about a woman who decides to get pregnant with a...[Read on] |
Do the Balloon People Have a Right to Publicity?
| The boy in the balloon or, as it were, the boy not in the balloon, is a publicity stunt which has many people outraged, questioning the sanity of the boy’s father, the intelligence of the media, and the values of a media-driven culture. But other than t...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Reese Witherspoon
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For continuing to raise awareness about domestic violence worlwdie through her partnership with Avon. Her work has already raised $4 million through the Women’s Empowerment Bracelet.
This week she announced the addition of a Women’s Empowe...[Read on] |
If Women Like It, It Must Be Stupid
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That is the title of the accompanying piece that talks to best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert in this week’s Entertainment Weekly which has Julia Roberts and Eat Pray Love on the cover.
That sentence is literally the bain of my existence. Many ti...[Read on] |
Nurse Jackie gets a second season
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Edie Falco’s Nurse Jackie had a record breaking premiere for Showtime on Monday night with 1 million people watching the debut and another 350,000 watching the same night rebroadcast of the show.
It was so good that Showtime has already ordered a secon...[Read on] |
Interview with Sandra Laing - Real life subject of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Skin is the heartbreaking true story of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo) as a woman with black skin born to white parents in apartheid S. Africa. She is a white girl who looked black. As a young girl she rea...[Read on] |
A Gigantic One-Year Tax Break for America's Least Needy
| Mr. Burns ardently supports repeal of the federal estate tax.Here’s my advice to the rich for 2010: savor the total repeal of the estate tax while you’ve got it, because it’s not going to last.
In June 2001, President George W. Bush sign...[Read on] |
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