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Sneak Peek: Watch Peter Jackson's 'Lovely Bones' trailer!
| The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Film directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg.
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Young women save The Lovely Bones
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Back in November The Lovely Bones was on all awards watchers list just due to Peter Jackson previous pedigree. No one had seen it, yet it was based on a best selling book and had awards potential written all over it. Then people starting seeing it and...[Read on] |
Supreme Court Weighs In on Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction
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Janet Jackson’s notorious wardrobe malfunction continues to cause uproarPost | Today 2:50 pm
The Supreme Court today sent the case on Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction back to an appeals court. A court last year ruled that CBS sh...[Read on] |
A cautionary tale: Sheryl, Malcolm and Michael or keep track of your valuables
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Houston Comets, 2001.
It has happened to some of the most famous people in modern history including Malcolm X and Michael Jackson. I remember the shock and heartfelt panic in my chest when...[Read on] |
What we missed: Obama Speech in Cairo Edition.
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There have been some really good posts from around the blogosphere about Obama, Cairo and women's rights. Here are a few that caught my attention.
Sarah MC takes Obama to task on not being afraid to offend religious fundamentalists and make a statement...[Read on] |
Keeping the Mood Light at The Lovely Bones Premiere
| Susan Sarandon, Christian Ashdale, Peter Jackson, and Saoirse Ronan at The Lovely Bones premiere in New York City, on December 3, 2009. Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com. “I didn’t even recognize you!” Susan Sarandon said to an Alexander Wang-clad ...[Read on] |
Nine-year-old girl wins competition to design coin for London 2012
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A new 50 pence coin to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, designed by nine-year-old Florence Jackson from Bristol, England, will be officially launched this week.
Florence beat more than 17,000 entries to win the contest, which was spon...[Read on] |
Shaheen Jafargholi Gives Susan Boyle Run for Her Money
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Welsh boy wows judges after Simon Cowell puts abrupt end to first
attempt wth Amy Winehouse song; Susan Boyle still musical phenomBritain's Got Talent: Shaheen Jafargholi, Susan Boyle | Today 10:15 am
Susan Boyle may have some competition.
Shaheen Ja...[Read on] |
Legendary Pinup Jane Russell’s 1948 Vanity Fair Cover
| From the Everett Collection.
Jane Russell died Monday of respiratory failure at her Santa Maria, Calif., home, surrounded by family—she was 89 years old. And 63 years ago this month, Russell appeared as the face of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue—prom...[Read on] |
Death of two troubled stars hits LA hard - A Tribute to Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson
| I don't usually comment on the life - or death - of celebrities. It's really not my thing. But our store, Wine Valet is in the heart/center of Beverly Hills and for the last hour you can see the stunned faces after the shocking news of the death of Michae...[Read on] |
Surgeon “Very Optimistic” About Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s Condition
| Gabrielle Giffords, 40, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in the head this morning in Tucson during a meet-and-greet with constituents. According to The New York Times, 12 people, including Giffords, were injured. As of this afternoon, Gif...[Read on] |
Alice Munro Wins Man Booker International Prize
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Beating out lots of talented, towering literary figures including Mario Vargas Llosa, VS Naipaul, and Peter Carey, Munro was named the third recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
This is what judge Jane Smiley said about Munro:
“Her work is...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Crazy Heart's Maggie Gyllenhaal
| Two-thousand-nine was a very good year for Maggie Gyllenhaal. In February, she appeared onstage in a New York production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya alongside Peter Sarsgaard, her longtime fiancÉand father to their three-year-old daughter. In May, the...[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] |
Sexism Alert: The Catfight Begins
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Peter Bart has never been known as being ahead of the curve on gender issues, so it’s not too surprising that his was the first column to begin pitting Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow in a girl-on-girl competition for year end awards for their films Br...[Read on] |
Interview with Lone Scherfig - Director of An Education
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Danish director Lone Scherfig is one of several women being mentioned this year for a potential best director nomination for her critically acclaimed film An Education. Here’s what I wrote earlier about the film. She took some time to answer some qu...[Read on] |
Sexism & Horse Racing: The Preakness
| I’m watching the pre-race coverage of the Preakness horse race right now on NBC. I’ve been following the media coverage of this race all week. Drama and debate rage on “should fillies race with stallions” due to the recent success of filly Rachel...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Only a pawn in their game
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It’s been a sort of strange and unfocused few days these days: I left the river to go to Jackson to meet up with a new fellow-traveler who got laid low with asthma at the last minute and had to cancel. Somehow the combination of being far from the riv...[Read on] |
Early Oscar Prediction—Best Directress: Kathryn Bigelow
| Oscar season generally begins after the Toronto International Film Festival, once the bulk of prestige films have screened for critics and picked up distributors, leaving only a handful of latecomers to tip the balance. (This year, these known unknowns in...[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] |
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] |
Scarlett Johansson to Be Black Widow in 'Iron Man 2'
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Actress will play spy in next installment of Marvel Comics franchisePost | Today 9:35 am
Actress Scarlett Johansson will don a skintight black outfit when she plays Black Widow in the forthcoming "Iron Man" sequel.
Rumor had it that Johans...[Read on] |
10 'Obama Women' Who Are Changing Washington
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These powerful African American women, newly nicknamed the ‘Obama Women,’ have taken big jobs in the new administration and are some of the driving forces behind this new era of changePhoto Essay | Today 2:25 pmA new wave of women has hit Wash...[Read on] |
All Girl Beat Freaks: America’s Best Dance Crew?
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If you’ve been obsessed with MTV’s reality dance-competition show “America’s Best Dance Crew“ then you know that one of the top two crews this season was the all-female Beat Freaks. The LA ladies came hard with a badass B-girl style and wowed AB...[Read on] |
Top Three Parties: Coachella, Coachella, Coachella
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Paul McCartney. 2. The Killers. 3. Lupe Fiasco. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Every Monday, VF Daily usually picks the top three parties around the globe that happened over the weekend. But this weekend, there was only one party that mattered: Coachella. Coa...[Read on] |
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