"the-blind-side" Articles & Blogs:
Drilling Down: The Blind Side’s Success
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I find it really funny — and telling — how the success of The Blind Side is still making people in Hollywood scratch their heads. This past weekend the LA Times took a long look at the making of the film.
First, it seems that Julia Roberts was the ...[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] |
Sandra Bullock makes Box Office history
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Sandra Bullock started out 2009 pretty much off the Hollywood radar screen. She hadn’t made a movie for two years, and since most people never thought a woman over 40 could score box office successes, her upcoming films weren’t taken very seriously....[Read on] |
Sandra Bullock tops list of highest paid actresses
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According to Forbes, Sandra Bullock was the highest paid actress from July 2009 through June 2010. She earned an astounding $56 million off her two successes The Proposal and The Blind Side. She gambled — and won — on The Blind Side by taking le...[Read on] |
Women & Wine Hosts Press/Bloggers Event to Preview the Winners of the LA International Wine, Spirits & Olive Oil Competition
| As the CEO of Women & Wine, http://womenwine.com, I wear a lot of different hats. So it was a great privilege on Thursday, to help host a press and bloggers tasting event - a sneak peak so to speak - to showcase some of the winners prior to the announceme...[Read on] |
Holiday Movie Preview- Lots for and about women
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I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontr...[Read on] |
Oscar Party Recap: Hollywood Finds Its License to Chill
| Sandra Bullock and Jesse James at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Photograph by Getty/VF. Perhaps for the first time since 2007, when the financial crisis was still a glimmer in the banking industry’s eye, Hollywood gave itself permission to have a little ...[Read on] |
New Moon brings a new dawn in Hollywood
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On Friday morning Hollywood woke up to the realization that fangirls can be as rabid as fanboys. By Saturday morning they realized that two BIG records had been broken, including the highest midnight screening opening and the best opening date in histor...[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] |
Guess What? Women buy more movie tickets than men
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You know that whole conversation about how women don’t go to the movies and are not a film market? You know that conversation that we hear over and over as the big reason why we are inundated with crappy boy films week in and week out.
Well thanks to...[Read on] |
Male Domination in Egypt is Only Half a Revolution
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(WOMENSENEWS)--The images of Egyptian men and women standing side-by-side in Cairo's Tahrir Square inspired and captured the attention of the world and shattered stereotypes about the restriction of women from political life.
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History Is on Women's Side in the Workplace
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(WOMENSENEWS)--A flurry of February headlines announced, just in time for Women's History Month, that for the first time women outnumber men on the nation's payrolls.
Second-paragraph perspective pointed out that is mainly because of the depleted employe...[Read on] |
Drivers are interested in intelligent vehicle sensing features despite limited familiarity
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As automotive technology increases with new innovations like Ford’s Curve Control, consumers have a growing interest in several other new technologies geared toward safety and accident prevention. A study entitled AutoTECHCAST, conducted by Harris Int...[Read on] |
The punishment for having kids
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According to an LA Times piece, Can Julia Roberts Come Back on Her Own Terms? the person who benefited most from Julia Roberts taking several years off to have and raise her kids is Sandra Bullock who got some of the key roles that Roberts passed on. M...[Read on] |
To Grunt or Not To Grunt: A Question of Gender Discrimination?
| During the 2009 French Open Tennis Tournament Portuguese teen tennis star Michelle Larcher de Brito made a stir with her elongated “shrieks” when she strikes the ball. Wimbledon officials are now considering making a rule banning loud grunting for fem...[Read on] |
The Award Season: The Status of Women
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Last week there were two pieces written about women and the awards season. The first from Sharon Waxman in the Wrap lamented the fact that films that star women are being crowded out of the best picture field (like that’s news?); and the second ...[Read on] |
2010 Aspen Winternational World Cup on for Thanksgiving weekend
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Who: Many of the top female skiers in the world.
What: Aspen Winternational
Where: Aspen, Colo.
When: Thanksgiving weekend – Nov. 27 & 28, 2010.
Why: The only U.S. stop on the Women’s World Cup curcuit.
The world’s fastest women skiers will once ag...[Read on] |
Few Details on Detained Journalists From Al Gore's Current TV
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Whereabouts of Euna Lee and Laura Ling — sister of former ‘View’ co-host Lisa Ling — unknown; U.S. working with Chinese, Swiss on releaseAmerican Journalists Detained in North Korea | Today 11:00 am
Time may not be on the side o...[Read on] |
Best actress contenders – Thinking outside the box
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik has a recent piece about how small the pool is this year for Best Actress.
He talks about how the top three potential nominees are Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Pr...[Read on] |
Oscar Campaigning
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You have to check out the NY Magazine piece that Mark Harris wrote on the Oscar campaign. The more I read and learn about this stuff, the more it resembles politics with handlers telling people what to wear, what to say, where to go and how to act.
It ...[Read on] |
The Right Side of History
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by Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women's Law Center
I had the pleasure of attending the White House Middle Class Task Force event, where the Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force presented its recommendation to hel...[Read on] |
Voula Duval's "The Trophy Wife" Gets Red-Carpet Treatment
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One somewhat unusual event this Fashion Week took place Sunday at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, with the screening of Voula Duval's debut short "The Trophy Wife." "The Trophy Wife" follows an Upper East Side woman's chance meeting with a "tomboy" music p...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Go with the wind
| (Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian recently embarked on a year long odyssey kayaking the length of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one in a series of journal en...[Read on] |
Lady Gaga Invests in New York City Restaurant
| W Magazine is reporting that Lady Gaga and her parents, Baron and Baroness Gaga, have signed on as silent partners at the Upper West Side American restaurant Vince and Eddie’s. “When she’s in town she likes to come here with her friends because it's...[Read on] |
Another shoe review: MBT
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Guest Post by Shelley Miles
I have been an MBT shoe fan for years, but my last pair was worn beyond repair and I was MBT-less for the last year. So you can imagine my joy when I recently received a new pair of MBT M.Walks.
MBT stands for Masai Baref...[Read on] |
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