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Susanna White makes her feature film directing debut at 49
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I remember exactly when I first heard her name. It was in the summer of 2008 and I was walking through the park listening to a podcast of Elvis Mitchell’s show The Treatment. The guest was director Susanna White who was out plugging her new HBO war fo...[Read on] |
Obama Establishing White House Women's Council
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Women’s groups have been calling for women’s issues to get top billing in the Obama White House. Have they gotten their wish?Women's Rights | Today 11:45 am
Women will soon have a larger voice in the White House.
President Obama plans on ...[Read on] |
Another Reason to Love Betty White
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Search "Betty White" on youtube and amidst clips of her referring to Sarah Palin as a "crazy bitch" on Craig Ferguson's show, making fun of the Facebook-mania when she hosted Saturday Night Live, and calling herself a whore on The George Lopez Show, you w...[Read on] |
Ten Memoirs By Unforgettable Women
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“Everyone has at least one good book in them.” The memoir, especially in recent years, has often proved this adage true. When all else fails, writers usually turn to their personal lives for inspiring material that will get the ink flowing.
The foll...[Read on] |
Interview with Susanna White – Director of Nanny McPhee Returns
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Susanna White took some time during the press junket for Nanny McPhee Returns to answer some questions for Women & Hollywood. Nanny McPhee Returns opens nationwide today.
Women & Hollywood: How did you get the script for the film?
Susanna White: I w...[Read on] |
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch: Ice Dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White
| Charlie White and Meryl Davis. Courtesy of NBC/USOC. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend, Charlie White, 22, flipped Meryl Davis, 23, over his shoulder and skated backwards on one leg as she faced the opposite direction and balanced on h...[Read on] |
Venice Film Festival Unveils Lineup: Very Few Women in Competition
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Last week, The Venice Film Festival unveiled its lineup for this year’s festival which will be held from September 2-12 and it is little light on the women directors.
Only 4 women directors are included in the 23 films in competition, and none are fe...[Read on] |
Activists Split on White House's Women's Council
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While some lauded the new White House Council on Women and Girls, others had hoped President Obama would have gone furtherWomen's Council | Today 10:10 am
President Obama made headlines yesterday when he established the White House Council on Women and ...[Read on] |
Emma Thompson gets star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Credit: WENN.com/FayesVision
How may actresses in Hollywood (or anywhere for that matter) would get dressed up looking like Nanny McPhee, when you have no chance to win an Oscar for that performance. Not many women would don that attire even for Osca...[Read on] |
White House Dog to Come Tuesday -- And It's a Kennedy
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The dog the Obamas will be getting is from the same lineage as the Kennedy dogs, reports entertainment website TMZBow Watch | 04/10/2009 8:40 pm
Expect the First Family dog to grace the White House lawn on Tuesday — and according to the entertainm...[Read on] |
Modern Lady's Modern Take on the White House Report on Women (Hint: Not Doing So Hot, Ladies)
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Yay! The White House made a report on the status of women! Oh no, as far as women in America go, we're still paid less than men and doing most of the housework. Wait, is that really all the report focused on? Not only have women's strides been small, but ...[Read on] |
Spanish spoken at White House briefing for the first time
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Add this one to the list of firsts under the Obama Administration. From HuffPo:
The White House made history on Monday. And it wasn't just by loosening travel and remittance restrictions for individuals looking to reach out to family members in Cuba.
Wh...[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] |
Female Creative Partnerships
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Julie White (l) and Theresa Rebeck
I am so sick and tired of all the stories about how women compete against each other (lots of them bullshit designed, I believe, to keep women from working together) that it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate wh...[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] |
Quick Hit: Grading the White House on Women's Issues
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Our girl Samhita is quoted in this recent Forbes piece about the White House and Women's Issues.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, 32, executive editor of feministing.com, believes female support is slipping. "Using reproductive rights as a bargaining chip was a bi...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Follows the White House on Twitter, But the White House Does Not Follow Sarah Palin
| Photo by Lonerockalex/Wikipedia.Introducing Friend or Follow, arguably the most uncomfortable addition to Twitter since whatever Spencer Pratt last tweeted. The gist of the program is fairly self-evident: typing in one’s username on friendorfollow.com w...[Read on] |
Studio films are directed by white men
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In a no shit sherlock moment, The NY Times took a look at who has been in the director’s seat for the major studio releases this year.
Of the 85 or so live action films to be released by the big studios in 2009 — Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Ent...[Read on] |
Obama welcomes UConn women’s team to White House
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President Barack Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut’s national champion women’s basketball team to the White House Monday, and it was a reunion for many of the players and the Prez.
The UConn women won their second straight NCAA championsh...[Read on] |
Got One of Ralph Lauren's Opening Ceremony Hats? You Could eBay It for $200
| Shaun White, center, sporting Ralph Lauren gear at the Vancouver Winter Games opening ceremony. As Team U.S.A.’s first Olympic medalist, mogul skier Hannah Kearney, summed it up best when we saw her yesterday: “It’s been a good Olympics for swag,”...[Read on] |
White House Party Crasher Michaele Salahi Insists That Whoopi Goldberg Hit Her
| Oh dear: Real Housewives of D.C. participant Michaele Salahi has alleged that during her Wednesday appearance on daytime television’s The View, host Whoopi Goldberg perpetrated “outrageous abuse” upon the White House party crasher. Salahi’s lawyer...[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] |
Sometimes change means more of the same
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Congrats to Conan O’Brien for ascending to the pinnacle of TV hosting duties with tonight’s debut as host of The Tonight Show. FYI - there have been four hosts over the years — all white men — and now a fifth white man joins this illustrious clu...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama inaugurates new White House farmers market
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And I was there!
As the local food nerd that I am, I had to be there to hear Michelle Obama speak at the opening of the new White House Farmer's Market in DC.
One of the local dairy farmer's spo...[Read on] |
Food inside the Obama White House
| I was watching NBC’s Special Inside the Obama White House. I have to take pride in that my husband was on the production team making it happen.
Of course, the food expert in me has to find my personal interest hook – the food! So here’s a play-by-p...[Read on] |
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