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• Further proof that there may really be a ELLE curse: WWD reports that actress Michelle Williams had already been shot for the April cover of the ladymag, but asked to have it and a related story pulled after the death of Heath Ledger. She's since been replaced with Natalie Portman. [WWD, 1st item]

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This year's female acting Oscar nominees are a strange bunch of characters — and no, we don't mean the narcissistic actresses themselves. While the Supporting Actress field is rife with Hollywood's version of the female victim, the Best Actress category has some complicated characters that have too damn much going on emotionally for us to be able to tell decide if they were victims (or hookers, or doormats) or not! After all, tragedy doesn't equate victimhood and playing tough doesn't necessarily make one a hero. After the jump, we break down the characters — and ask you to tell us who's a victim, who's a hooker, who's a doormat, and who's on the fence. (Hint: We consult our Magic 8-Ball.) More »
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The Oscar ceremony may not happen this year, but the nominations themselves, just announced, prove that women are making inroads as writers. In addition to actress noms for Cate Blanchett (for both I'm Not There and Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and Julie Christie, Marion Cotillard, Laura Linney, and Ellen Page, the Best Original Screenplay category was female-dominated, with 4 out of the 5 nominated films boasting women writers (an additional writing nod was given to Sarah Polley for Best Adapted Screenplay for I'm Not There). Interestingly (and not surprisingly), not a single Best Director nomination went to a woman; are women just not being given the opportunity to direct by the Hollywood establishment? Or are their efforts just not being recognized? Contemplate this while checking out the full list of nominees, after the jump. More »
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Last night's Golden Globe Awards garnered some minor surprises (Julie Christie for best actress, drama; Julian Schnabel for director); some major snoozes (the exceedingly-painful televised press conference made us want to do all sort of tortuous things to Billy Bush, especially when he called Cate Blanchett not such a great actress); and some boring fashion (see above). To amuse ourselves (and, as promised on Friday), we took the female Globes winners and outfitted them in the fashions we think they should have worn, had the show gone on as usual. The winners and their pretend awards-wear, after the jump. More »
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Did you see Atonement over the weekend? Uncharacteristically enough, I did. For the uninitiated it's a wrenching love story about Keira Knightley and James McEoy, and Keira is good and James McEvoy is devastatingly hot, but neither of whom are anywhere near as interesting as the other couple portrayed in the movie, red headed cousin Juno Temple and the Benedict Cumberbatch (whoa names!!), who depict the 15-year old Lola and chocolate factory tycoon who loves her so much he sexually assaults her, Paul Marshall. I saw this movie with approximately five other people, four of whom thought Lola was totally, definitively, without a doubt full-on raped by the chocolate guy. I thought the situation was a little more complex than that — that there was an element of consent to what went down between them or things wouldn't have turned out the way they did. Unless I was supposed to believe there were, like, roofies in that chocolate bar or something. Does this make me a bad person? I consulted the internets... More »
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