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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Fran Drescher

The star of The Nanny (I’m still waiting for her next sitcom) took her focus on health care and cancer (she is a uterine cancer survivor) to Capitol Hill yesterday to get Senators on board of the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010. The bill will eliminate c...[Read on]

Susanna White makes her feature film directing debut at 49

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]

Emma Thompson gets star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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]

Book Review: Maybe This Time

Author: Jennifer Crusie Pages: 352 Date Started: 9/4/10 Date Finished: 9/8/10 Simple Summary: After a decade of being divorced Archer asks his ex, Andie, to be caretaker/ nanny for his distant (second) cousins at a supposedly haunted house. Rating: ★�...[Read on]

Interview with Susanna White – Director of Nanny McPhee Returns

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]

Keep Your Inner Child Alive: Children’s Books We All Loved

In 1962, Philippe Ariés published a revolutionary work titled Centuries of Childhood. As part of his research, Ariés drew on a variety of sources, including paintings from the 1700s, which depicted children not as kids but as miniature adults. He asser...[Read on]

Goodyear Blimp Ride - One off the Bucket List

I was given a rare invitation by Goodyear take a ride in the Goodyear blimp. You cannot purchase a ride: you have to be invited and getting an invitation is a rare deal. The pilot, a woman by the way, informed us that less than 1% of the American pop...[Read on]

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