- The Ugly Truth’s Ugly Past: Vogue's Daily Coverage of Fashion, Beauty, Parties and More on Style.com
ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 04 2009 | feminism, women, movies
Really interesting article from Vogue on how Hollywood can't produce a respectable and likeable career woman character...even when all women are the creative forces behind the film. The reasoning is that strong working women don't appeal to adolescent boys -- movie audiences' key demographic.
Quoted: Predictably, it’s the lewd beast who schools the brainy, high-powered beauty. ... This would all seem like business as usual except that when The Ugly Truth opened last weekend, exasperation with such misogyny reached some sort of tipping point. Not only did critics assail the film’s sexism, they also pointedly called out by name the women behind it: actor-producer Heigl, screenwriters Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz, and Kirsten Smith, and Sony Pictures cochairman Amy Pascal, who runs Columbia Pictures.
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ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 01 2009 | movies, funny
I can't wait to see Bruno. Here's a fun slideshow featuring his fashions. Why does he remind me of Derek so much? Should I have said that?
Quoted: Sacha Baron Cohen is making his mark around the world as Bruno, a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista. The film, scheduled for release July 10, is all about Cohen cajoling people to let him into events and he then taping their reactions to his outlandish behavior. If fashion makes the man, we don't know what kind of man that makes Cohen, but it's fun to watch.
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ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 18 2008 | funny, books, AV Club, movies
Hilarious.
Quoted: As evidenced by the wave of shrieks moving across our nation's Hot Topics, Twilight, the teen vampire romance that has captured the hearts, minds, and vocal cords of teenage girls, lonely moms, and inappropriate underwear manufacturers everywhere, opens on Friday. ....
So the formula for fervent teenage girl/mom of teenage girl fandom is a romance involving someone who is part scary creature, part parent-friendly trend. What will be the next abstinence vampire? A few ideas (You're welcome, movie industry):Purity Ring Werewolf
100-Calorie-Pack Wild Centaur
Anti-Reality-Show Warlock ...ShareViewed: 25 Times
ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 26 2008 | movies, women's suffrage
Can't wait to see this. I didn't realize that some suffragists were secretly locked up and tortured Guantanamo style. Wow. Conservatives were scared of us even back then. I don't know why this isn't airing before the election. WOMEN, YOU HAVE TO VOTE! (Unless you're voting for McCain, who doesn't give a shit about us.)
Quoted: They had no vote, no political clout, no equal rights. But what they lacked under the law they made up for with brains, determination and courage. Oscar®-winner Hilary Swank leads an outstanding cast in the inspirational true story of two women who dared to make a stand for women's rights, and ended up shaping the future of America.
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ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | movies
I'm so excited to see WALL-E on so many levels. Just have to go see it late enough to avoid loud, sticky kids.
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ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 12 2007 | movies, women
I guess I'm not the only one who thinks "Knocked Up" is sexist -- the star of the movie does too.
Quoted: If Apatow tries, in Knocked Up, to suggest that guys need to grow up a bit to meet women's high expectations, he, like his own characters, doesn't seem to get that maybe there's a lot more to women than these expectations.
... If, as Heigl delicately put it, the movie is a "little sexist," that is because it is the natural product of a culture evidently sold on the notion that women are so focused on domestic mechanics that they simply don't know how to allow themselves the playful inner lives men do ...ShareViewed: 22 Times
ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 12 2007 | movies, Elizabeth I, British history, awesome
I also don't care about the slab of Stilton. It's a small sacrifice for my Personal Irony Theshold to make in order to enjoy Cate Blanchett's 'white-hot glow'.
redotted from Shiwani
Quoted: Elizabeth : The Golden Age (Universal) is a great hulking slab of English cheese, Stilton perhaps, or Wensleydale. It's one part historical melodrama, two parts bodice-ripper ...
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ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 19 2007 | movies, Elizabeth I, British history
So excited about this movie. The first Elizabeth movie was amazing. Opens October 12--seems like a good theater movie. So epic and all ...
Quoted: Elizabeth: The Golden Age on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
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ms.kruse | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 26 2007 | movies



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