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Guest Post: A Fan Speaks - Kristen Stewart and Our Miserable Failure
The media stoning of Kristen Stewart, of Twilight fame, has been going on for about four weeks now. About a month ago, she was pictured having a fling, which she called a “momentary indiscretion,” with the married director of Snow White and the Huntsman, Rupert Sanders. What she did was ...
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Jon Voight is in Tampa this week at the Republican National Convention, and the actor--who's never been afraid to speak his mind politically--seems set to share his thoughts about the country with anyone who'll listen.
Actor Jon Voight is in Tampa this week at the Republican National Convention, and the Oscar-winner ("Coming Home)--who's never been afraid to speak his mind politically, penning a 2008 opinion piece against then-candidate Barack Obama and appearing in a video at the 2008 Republican conventi...
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Media: Movie Columnist Patrick Goldstein Leaves the LAT After 12 Years
Patrick Goldstein is leaving the LA Times after reportedly taking a buyout. After twelve years, his last column ran Wednesday. I'm sorry to see him go. But I have a confession to make. I had stopped reading Goldstein every week. I wasn't avoiding him. There was a time when I read the weekly The Big ...
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Note to Janice Min - Hey Pot, It's the Kettle, You're Black
This past Sunday the NY Times Style section featured a piece about the how hard the culture is on celebrity moms. The piece started out with a personal story by its author, Janice Min, (the editorial director of the Hollywood Reporter) about how mortified she was that the women who give her he...
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Miley Cyrus Cuts Hair and the World Thinks She's Gone Crazy
What is it about young Hollywood women and their hair? A couple of years ago I wrote a piece about the reaction to Emma Watson's haircut that got page views for months and months. People were shocked that the young woman who was required to have her hair long for the Harry Potter mov...
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Our Unyielding Obsession with Jennifer Aniston
If you've been under a rock for the last couple of days I am here to inform you that we can all calm down now because Jennifer Aniston has finally gotten engaged. If you haven't been under a rock, you have been inundated with hideously titled articles that make me want to cringe. ...
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Remembering Helen Gurley Brown: A Complicated Legacy
Like many feminists, I have some problems with Cosmopolitan.
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Avenue Capital Hedge Fund To Announce Variety Buy This Week
The frontrunner to buy 107-year-old entertainment industry trade Variety is New York billionaire Marc Lasry’s Avenue Capital hedge fund, according to The New York Post. A source reports that Variety parent company Reed Business Information has accepted a bid between $30 million and $40 million. An o...
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Women Directors Delpy & DuVernay Talk Leveling the Playing Field
Three women filmmakers with new movies are inspiring mofe discussion of the state of women directors in Hollywood. The LA Times' Nicole Sperling talks to Julie Delpy ("2 Days in New York," "2 Days in Paris"), Ava DuVerney ("Middle of Nowhere") and Leslye Headland (the upcoming "Bachelorette").
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Well This is Awkward: 'Twilight' Drama Takes the Lead in EW's Fall Movie Preview; Stewart Out of 'Cali'
No surprise here; EW features a cuddly Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on their Fall Movie Preview issue. "For better or worse," writes EW, "Stewart and Pattinson and their much speculated-upon romance have always been intertwined with the onscreen relationship of their fictional...
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