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Q&A;: Sarah Silverman: "'Penis' and 'Vagina' Should Be Equal Comedically, but They're Not"
| Like a cheerier version of Jeremy Renner’s demolitions expert in The Hurt Locker, Sarah Silverman is the kind of comedian who loves nothing better than venturing into the treacherous topics of race, sex, and religion to nimbly navigate some potentia...[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] |
NYWIFT Muse Awards
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the NYWIFT Muse Awards which honored some amazing women including America Ferrara (Ugly Betty); Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Allison Silverman (formerly the Executive Producer of the Colbert Report); Andrea...[Read on] |
Why Sarah Palin’s Alaska Lost Nearly Half Its Viewers
| Just as Sarah Palin fled her governorship, TLC viewers are also fleeing Alaska. Ratings are down 40 percent for Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the former vice-presidential candidate’s reality show. While 5 million people watched the series’ November 14 premi...[Read on] |
Re-capping the Lost Second Season of Sarah Palin’s Alaska
| Last night saw the season finale of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, TLC’s eight part travelogue through Sarah Palin’s neuroses. According to a report by Entertainment Weekly, that episode will be the series’ last. “There are no plans to send uber-producer...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin lands gig with Fox News, gets new action figure
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Looks like the Sarah Palin schoolgirl action figure has been trumped, big time. After all, who needs some silly doll when you can have your very own Sarah Palin embryo ornament?
This is one of many of this Etsy vendor's "baby's first" fetus ornaments ...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin’s Alaska Is Avowedly Apolitical
| Last night, in New York City’s Time Warner Center, TLC feted the forthcoming premiere of Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Based on a preview of the show’s social media campaign, it was evident that the network-approved narrative surrounding the series has alre...[Read on] |
Margaret Cho drops a bomb
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Here’s a doozy. Leave it to Jessica Wakeman via the frisky to get some juicy news. This time in a conversation she had with Margaret Cho, Margaret started talking about women comedians and how straight women are less succe...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Voices Her Support for Dr. Laura on Twitter
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Sarah Palin took to Twitter last night to offer encouragement to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who’s leaving her radio show in order, she says, to “regain her First Amendment rights.”
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Women directors breaking through in theatre
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Patricia Cohen seems to be on the gender and culture beat at the NY Times. She’s written two stories this week first the one on gender discrimination against women playwrights (full post on that coming) and now one on how women are having success as t...[Read on] |
Mary-Louise Parker Does Not Smoke Weed, but She Has Licked a Pot Lollipop
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I can recall the exact moment I fell in love with Mary-Louise Parker. It was during an Emmy roundtable last year hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, featuring Emmy-nominated actresses like Christina Applegate, Amy ...[Read on] |
Pity Contest: Kate Gosselin Visits Sarah Palin’s Alaska
| A forthcoming episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska features a cameo by fellow TLC employee Kate Gosselin, star of Kate Gosselin’s Southeastern Pennsylvania. Gosselin transports her eight children to Palin’s home in Wasilla, Alaska, for a bi-family campin...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Under Fire for Stimulus Rejection
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Alaskans are increasingly angry at their governor for refusing key components of the government’s stimulus packagePost | Today 9:35 am
Sarah Palin received an earful from constituents this weekend when dozens of Alaska voters gathered to protest t...[Read on] |
What Will Sarah Palin Whine About, if Not the “Liberal Press”?
| Photo by Juli Weiner.Formerly popular polymath Sarah Palin did an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren about Libya last night, as private citizens with no constituents or foreign-policy expertise often do. Palin told Van Susteren, “You know, I ...[Read on] |
The Oxymoron of the Sarah Palin “Conservative Feminism” Brand
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Let me say this one more time: Sarah Palin is not a feminist. In fact, the fabricated term “conservative feminist” is an oxymoron.
As I said this morning on the Laura Ingraham Show, Sarah...
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The One Sarah Palin E-mail We Cannot Stop Thinking About
| Excerpted from Sarah Palin's e-mail.There was something for everyone in the Sarah Palin e-mail dump that took place over the weekend. Fans would have loved that she arranged to read to local kindergartners when her plane was grounded in upstate Alaska. Fo...[Read on] |
Candace Bushnell and More to create web series
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Who said webisodes were just for the young things? More Magazine and Candace Bushnell aka creator of the Sex and the City columns and the woefully underloved Lipstick Jungle (now that Ben Silverman is gone they should bring the show back except the wome...[Read on] |
O.K. Sarah Palin Might Be Stupid, But Why Is That Bad?
| The neocons have a problem. The neocon wing of the Republican Party is the egghead wing, the foreign policy wing, the Jewish wing. So what to do about Sarah Palin, who is, relatively speaking, the antithesis of all of those things? An answer or, at any ra...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Discusses Trig Decision: She Had to 'Walk the Walk'
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Sarah Palin got personal while discussing abortion yesterdaySarah Palin | Today 9:25 am
Sarah Palin ventured outside Alaska yesterday and headed to Indiana, where she addressed a crowd of nearly 3,000 pro-life activists.
In an especially candid mome...[Read on] |
Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin and Her Campaign’s “Truth Optional” Mentality
| Courtesy of Howard Books.If being a campaign volunteer for Sarah Palin sounds like an unrewarding way to spend your free time, then you and Frank Bailey have something in common. Because, as he reveals in Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin (Howard Books), be...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Invokes World’s Least Creative Excuse to Explain Tour Suspension
| Writing on Facebook, Governor Sarah Palin (R-the Internet), argued that “reports of tour demise are greatly exaggerated,” referring to a Real Clear Politics scoop that Palin’s One Nation cross-country publicity stunt has been summarily truncated. We...[Read on] |
How Bristol Palin Can Avoid Dancing with the Stars Humiliation, the Sarah Palin Way
| Last night saw the Dancing with the Stars debut of Bristol Palin. For all her hip-shaking and shoulder-shimmying, the Alaskan actress/public relations executive had a thoroughly mediocre showing. Gawker called her performance “grody,” which is...[Read on] |
Every Day Sarah Palin Gets Closer to Being President
| Sarah Palin’s going to run for president. She is running. Hers is the most long-term dedicated campaign since Ronald Reagan left the governorship of California in 1975 and became a full-time presidential aspirant. Notably, the very act of running doesn...[Read on] |
Nora and Delia Ephron New Off-Broadway Play
| Nora and Delia Ephron. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best...[Read on] |
Couric Wins Cronkite Award for Palin Interview
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Katie Couric received the Walter Cronkite Award for her infamous Sarah Palin interviewKatie Couric | Today 5:45 pm
Remember when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused journalist Katie Couric of "exploiting" their disastrous exchange — the one ...[Read on] |
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