"rachel-veitch" Articles & Blogs:
91 years old and 557,000 miles, and still going strong together
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Everybody is talking about this little old lady and her lifetime partnership with her Mercury Comet Caliente. She's more than 90 years old, and has been driving her "Chariot" since 1964.
Now with 557,000 miles on the odometer, the spunky pair has had th...[Read on] |
Rachel Weisz Takes on Two Feminist Roles
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Rachel Weisz is attached to two films with strong feminist type characters. The first is Whistleblower to be directed by Larysa Kondracki.
Here’s the description from Variety:
Based on a true story, “Whistleblower” chronicles the trials of a fem...[Read on] |
Fashionable Filly: Rachel Alexandra poses for Vogue
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It was just announced that Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra will NOT run in the June 6th Belmont Stakes. The first filly to win the Preakness in 85 years, Rachel Alexandra delivered a brilliant effort on May 16 to win the second leg of the of the Triple ...[Read on] |
Rachel McAdams – Maintaining her privacy with her success
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I remember when I first saw her in Mean Girls. She was terrifically mean. She scared the crap out of my teenage self. Then she broke my heart in The Notebook. I have always admired her film choices. (I’ll give her a pass on Sherlock Holmes cause...[Read on] |
Be an American: Tea-bag the White House.
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Because I, like Rachel Maddow, have the sense of humor of a 12 year old.
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Or the GOP is finally coming out of the closet? I kind of love that know one that is talking about it knows what teabagging ...[Read on] |
Fast Females: A 45-year-old and a filly plunder expectations and find victory
| By Laura Pappano
That blur you see is a 45-year-old woman breaking a record. (OK, snapping with an iPhone enhances the effect in this case).
That’s right. Yesterday at the Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race — which was also the Men’s and W...[Read on] |
Maddow on Leno: Limbaugh 'Creepy' (Video)
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow takes late-night TV by storm, talks about AIG’s woes, horrible state of nation’s health-care system, and everyone’s favorite conservative talk-show hostPost | Today 10:00 am
Never one to veer away from contr...[Read on] |
Forever21 Threatens To Sue Blogger Because They Can't Take A Joke
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Forever21 always kind of irked me for a variety of reasons: the sizes are strange and ill-fitting, they pretty much blatantly knock off designers, and their bags have random bible verses on them, which can seem a bit pushy in my opinion. Now let's a...[Read on] |
The Time Traveler’s Wife
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I have to preface my thoughts on this film by saying that my eyes exploded in a huge allergic reaction during the second half of the film. Weirdly, even though I could barely see I liked the second half better but for a epic type romance there was somet...[Read on] |
AP nominates two horses for "Female Athlete of the Year"
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It's the end of the year, aka the merry season of top ten lists. The Associated Press recently published the vote tallies for its Female Athlete of the Year, in which 158 sports editors around the country weigh in on which of these ten female athletes des...[Read on] |
Glee takes on abstinence and sex education
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I am loving Glee. As a kid I thought life was a musical (and I never grew up). This show feels like it was made for me. It's so gay. It's got Jane Lynch as a delicious villain who loves social hierarchies and is constantly claiming gender discrimination...[Read on] |
The Pink Campaign on Broadway Event Monday, May 4
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Rachel Helson
Rachel Helson is an inspired young woman. At 20 years old she’s a producer (Reasons to be Pretty), an actress and an NYU senior. She’s also a serious kick ass activist for breast cancer and is producing a benefit on Monday, May 4th ...[Read on] |
Women directors in competition at Venice
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The good news is that there are women in competition.
The roster of competition titles was announced and there are 3 women directed films out of a total of 22. Plus we have Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as the closing film.
That’s 13.6%.
Clearly b...[Read on] |
First Lady of France Carla Bruni Spotted Filming New Woody Allen Film
| Photo by Remi Jouan.In November of last year, Carla Bruni announced that she had agreed to appear in Woody Allen’s then-unnamed new film. “Perhaps I will be very bad,” she mused. Maybe—we will soon find out. Yesterday, photographers snapped pictur...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Women to Watch
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What a great idea. The people who run the Cultural Leadership Programme in the UK know that there is a leadership disparity between men and women in the arts. Lots of times the issue is that the women are just not visible enough in order to get that n...[Read on] |
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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Disturbing Video of Girls’ Dance
| I became aware of this video, via a friend’s post on Facebook (thanks EH). It is a video of girls who appear to be between the ages of 8-10 years of age, dancing to Beyonce’s “Put A Ring On It”. Despite the face these girls are great dance...[Read on] |
Fashion Face-Off: "It" Girls at Chanel
| Every Friday VF.com pores through the crème de la crème of party pictures to find two contenders for the best outfit of the week. Tell us your favorite in our Fashion Face-Off. New York Fashion Week began in earnest last night at the opening...[Read on] |
Funny ladies of Hollywood discuss getting "old"
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Did you know that Amy Poehler played Rachel McAdams' mother, even though she's only eight years older? Or that, sigh, she and Sarah Silverman were both tapped to play Jonah Hill's mother? Listen as...[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] |
Congratulations Justice Kagan
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
It's official! Elena Kagan is now an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was sworn in on Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts and becomes the fourth woman to have ever served ...[Read on] |
Interview with Wendy Jo Carlton – Director of Hannah Free
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Hannah Free, the new film starring Sharon Gless, written by Claudia Allen (adapted from her play) and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton will premiere on Sunday, June 28 as the closing night film for the Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco.
The film ...[Read on] |
Ski Jumpers Jump Through Hoops
| Ski jumper Jessica Jerome. Photographs by Mia Tran. The free-flowing rum drinks helped you handle the many incongruities earlier this week on the third floor of Norwood, a private club in downtown New York City, but disparities were still pretty acute. In...[Read on] |
Elena Kagan’s Hearings to Begin Next Monday
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
The Senate Judiciary Committee has officially announced that Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing will begin next Monday June 28th at 12:30 pm. Like many court-watchers around the country, we’re going...[Read on] |
Elena Kagan's Confirmation Vote to be Held Today
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
After months of discussion and debate, we are excited to report that the Senate will be voting today on Elena Kagan's confirmation as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. With fiv...[Read on] |
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