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Emma Goldman was an anarchist feminist boat rocking force to be reckoned with, and this afternoon, you can catch a one woman play about her life live from your computer. More »
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Bristol Palin is reportedly happy for the father of her child, and then twirled and spun and shimmied away in a furiously awkward dance that could only be her way of expressing her sadness, anger, and regret. More »
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In a Bravo marketing genius mashup, the ladies of The Real Housewives Of Orange County and The Real Housewives Of New Jersey were on the Isaac Mizrahi/Iman hosted Fashion Show last night. Let the bitchery begin! More »
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After many protested the Theatre Development Fund's refusal to award any female playwright this years' $25,000 Wendy Wasserstein Prize, the group has announced it's changing the selection process. The 19 nominees will probably be asked to submit more plays. More »
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The Theatre Development Fund, which awards the annual Wasserstein Prize (named after late playwright Wendy Wasserstein) to a female playwright, has turned down all 19 nominees this year. The selection panel says the entries weren't "truly outstanding." People are pissed! More »
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Michaele Salahi and the rest of The Real Housewives Of D.C. were on The View yesterday; now Team Salahi says Whoopi abused Michaele. What the hell? More »
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Why yes, I did see an all-female production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar last night. And yes, it was awesome. More »
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A DC venue is putting on "an all male spin to the Vagina Monologues," titled Deez Nuts. Our favorite viewer testimonial: "I was befuddled by the title." [The Sexist] More »
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The other day, I was talking Mad Men, which we both watch religiously, with my 60-year-old dad. "There's something off about it," he said. "For all the attention to detail, they miss the point." Heresy! More »
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Anna Deavere Smith is described as a "woman of many faces," a performer who takes on issues singlehanded - albeit in a Tracy-Ullman style blitz of wholly different personalities. Now she's gunning for healthcare. More »
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Vogue's model issue may promise "drama," but don't be fooled — this issue is as staid as contributing writer Plum Sykes' riding habit. More »
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Influential dramatist and director Harold Pinter has died at 78 after a long battle with cancer. More »
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The Wrestler, the newest film by Darren Aronofsky, stars Mickey Rourke in a Golden Globe-nominated performance as washed-up '80s wrestler Randy Robinson. Did Rourke body-slam this role to movie history? Reviews, after jump. More »
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How did critics treat Doubt, a film starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymor Hoffman and based on the award-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, the film's director/writer? The answer, of course, after the jump. More »
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Well, the 2009 Golden Globes nominees were announced this morning, so it's time for a new edition Hookers, Victims & Doormats*. (With the hope that you will weigh in!) The award-worthy roles, after the jump. More »
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The Reader, a film based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Bernhard Schlink, takes place in a post-war Germany and centers around Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an illiterate woman who sleeps with a teenage boy (David Kross) whom she asks to read to her before and after sex. Eventually, the boy grows up and encounters Hanna again when she is on trial for war crimes. The subject matter and plot shift from a story of sexual awakening to a courtroom drama is tiring to some critics, although they agree that Winslet gives an excellent performance. A collection of reviews, after the jump. More »
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'Tis the season for Oscar-bait and there is no better way to start it off than with Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon. The film is based on the play of the same name by Peter Morgan and stars Frank Langella and Michael Sheen in roles they originated for Morgan's play, which revolves around the five-part 1977 interview between British talk show host David Frost, and disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Read the reviews after the jump. More »
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Baz Luhrmann's newest film, Australia, has a lot to live up to. It's the director's first film since his smash hit Moulin Rouge! and (as the film's title suggests) the film has taken the unenviable role of attempting to fully capture the history of the director's homeland. Starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, Australia has a lot going on: an opposites-attract love story, a cattle drive, a WWII bombing raid, discussions about race and at one point, a rendition of "Over the Rainbow." Does Luhrmann succeed in making a new, modern classic? Read the collected reviews after the jump. More »
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Female playwrights frustrated by the small number of plays in production and written by women for the 2008-9 season are holding a meeting tonight to air their grievances with representatives of leading theaters. Playwrights Sarah Schulman and Julia Jordan say that plays by men are being produced in Off Broadway theaters at 4 times the rate of plays by women. The problem is even worse on Broadway, where not a single play currently running was written by a woman. “I personally don’t think playwriting is a gene on a Y chromosome,” says playwright Theresa Rebeck. "Many of our male peers find the debate intolerable. Men in the community seem to think that everything is fine.” [NY Times] More »
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Rachel Getting Married, the latest offering by director Jonathan Demme, is being acclaimed by many critics as one of Demme's best films to date. The film is centered around the days leading up to Rachel's (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding and a visit from her eternally rehabbing sister Kym (Anne Hathaway) whose propensity for narcissism and cold snark causes problems for Rachel's wedding. Demme is an accomplished filmmaker who carefully strays from cliched family melodrama and the performance from the normally Disney-ready Hathaway is a refreshing turn for critics who may have been ready to dismiss her as just another Hollywood princess. Considering the overwhelmingly positive reviews, this may not be a film that you would want to skip out on this weekend. The collected reviews after the jump. More »
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Despite our best attempts to appear to be strictly Modern Women, we are suckers for a good period piece. The clothes, the wigs, the accents... the James McEvoys. And if we didn't have a company-wide party to attend tonight, we'd be at a mid-evening screening of The Duchess, which follows the life of the Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), as she gains public attention for being a fashion plate, a Whig-party supporter, and an unhappily married lass. This is pretty standard bodice-ripper fare: A poor-little-rich girl protagonist mixed with just the right amount of fashion, sex, and a cheesy, easy-to-digest Girl Power! theme. Oh, and the film has the added bonus of sorta-contemporary political tie-in since Georgina is the late Princess Di's relative. So, what did the reviewers think of the film? Check out the reviews after the jump. More »
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Possibly-awesome show alert: HBO Latino is launching a new original series set in a fictional Mexican women's prison. The drama, titled Capadocia, will begin airing on September 10th and focuses on the corruption and abuse within women's prisons and the tensions between a prison rights attorney (Dolores Heredia) and a corporate shill who wants to privatize them (Juan Manuel Bernal). (Lady Oz: En Español?) The series will also run subtitled on-demand for non-Spanish-speaking viewers. [Time] More »
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Sure, we all love Gossip Girl but most of us are (semi-)reasonable adults who can separate the show's risque antics from reality. But what about the children? Carol Platt Liebau, author of Prude, says that the show "glamorizes and normalizes" a sexy lifestyle which can result in emotional and psychological distress in young girls. She also thinks that "depicting high school girls as little more than gossipy sex objects is simply a tired cliche that does all females a disservice." But Carol, they aren't just gossipy sex objects! They are ASB presidents who out their ex-BFF as a recovering drug addict, they steal Valentino couture, they kill people. OMG, the drama! No wonder 14-year-olds love this show. [Reuters] More »
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Hey, did you hear? Project Runway's fifth season is premiering tonight on Bravo! We wouldn't be surprised if you had no clue about it, seeing that Bravo has done almost zero publicity for the upcoming season and we didn't even realize that there was a new season coming up until last week (apparently Bravo is too busy promoting Date My Ex or whatever other reality disaster it cooked up last season). Well, the lack of publicity has got some people wondering if Bravo is purposefully sabotaging the series before it moves off to Lifetime next year; the network doesn't seem to have sent out screeners to reviewers. More »
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My favorite underdog on The Paper, EIC Amanda, has finally started to assert her authority in the kindest way possible but is still being mocked and disrespected by her fellow editors (particularly Trevor, the biggest blowhard I've ever had an inappropriate crush on). Adam, the flamboyant High School Musical fan, is reveling in the drama. In fact, he was voted "Most Dramatic" for the school's yearbook superlatives, a title he wasn't happy with, but clearly deserved. Clip above. More »
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Really? That was supposed to constitute crying? A few imperceptible sniffles and suddenly John "If your son was dead maybe you'd feel okay getting $400 haircuts too" Edwards is all "time for some masculine steely resolve"? Yeah, I don't think so. Here's the thing about crying: it's the purest — and vulgarest and most abusable — physical manifestation of and/or appeal to one's "empathy gene." Hillary chokes up and says she has so many ideas about how to run the country, and it reminds us of the time we moved out of the first apartment we shared with a livein and thought OMG we had so many ideas about how we were going to, like, paint shit together. Oh sure, a dude looks at our "ideas" and probably claims he sees "romantic delusions" (and probably also, "drama.") And fair enough. But without tears how can you adequately express the simple sadness when grim reality gets in the way of the dreams you dared to dream, the hopes you so AUDACIOUSLY held? Or, uh, react when Tara Reid loses her virginity in American Pie? We discuss Hillary's crying in a very sappy crappy hour ATJ. More »
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We're sick, quite frankly, of hearing guys who use the phrase "I don't want any drama" to back out of situations in which a female is angry or upset. For some at Jezebel [That would be Anna. -Ed.], use of the word "drama" to describe an argument, confrontation or discussion is enough to create, well, major drama. Why? Cause it's a convenient, cowardly way of rejecting equal responsibility in a conflict. It's also sexist and patronizing. Basically, we don't much like it. More »
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