"the-runaways" Articles & Blogs:
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie Sue Label over Charity CD
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Why are Joan Jett and Cherie Currie suing Main Man records over a Runaways tribute album slated for release later this month? According to Main Man's site, portions of the proceeds of Take It or Leave It, which includes 2 cds full of prominent rockers cov...[Read on] |
Sundance Alert: The Runaways
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Talk about girl power! The film has its world premiere this weekend at Sundance with Joan Jett in attendance (and I read they rocked out afterwards.) Here’s a description (from fandango):
The story of the groundbreaking ’70s female rock group the...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Joan Jett
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The women at the Fusion Film Festival at NYU invited me to their screening last week of The Runaways. I’ll talk more about the movie when it opens but I really enjoyed being exposed to a slice of women’s history that I never knew about. My relat...[Read on] |
Bret Easton Ellis inserts foot in mouth when talking about female directors
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Mary Harron
Seriously, what was this guy thinking? I can barely write because the steam coming out of my ears is fogging up my glasses. This guy is one of these high profile Gen X writers whose books are ok, not great, yet he continues to get publish...[Read on] |
Why I’m not worried about the “Liz Lemoning” of TV
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It’s that time of the year when spring is in the air and we all shed our dreaded winter coats and look into out closets and check out the spring/summer apparel with a fit of excitement and dread. (Will that one fit after this particularly cold winter?...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – A look back and a look ahead
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While most Americans (and the world) are struggling financially, Hollywood had a great year. Box office revenue topped $10.6 billion, up 10 percent from 2008 (according to Hollywood.com) and many of the year end stories have talked about women both at...[Read on] |
Sundance Non-Competition
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Here’s the rest of the women directed and women-centric movies showing at Sundance in January. (Info from Hollywood Reporter)
PREMIERES
The Extra Man (Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini; screenwriters: Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames, Sh...[Read on] |
April Chick Picks
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While it’s said April brings lots of showers in preparation for May’s flowers -at ChickSpeak, we think April is the first month where the sun shows its face, and therefore, is time to celebrate!With flowers (and allergies) abounding, the dream of summ...[Read on] |
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