Jezebel: Joan Allen

Tim Geithner: Is There Any "There" There?

Megan Carpentier — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:00:00 EST

While the Sunday shows rage around us, Moe and I call for Geithner's head, Larry Summers' ass, parse the Brangelina break-up reports and Joan Allen's necklace-of-horror, and, finally, debate which, if any, Republicans we'd allow to examine our vaginas. More »

Joan Allen Saves Joan Rivers From Having Nothing To Critique

Megan Carpentier — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:30:00 EST

[Los Angeles, January 23. Image via Getty]

Family Affair

Sadie Stein — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:28:32 EST

[Beverly Hills, January 17. Image via Getty.]

Lindsay Takes Ali Bar-Hopping; Megan Fox Wants To Shoot Her Boyfriend

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EDT

More on this in Midweek Madness, but Lindsay Lohan hit up L.A.'s Crown Bar earlier this month — and took 15-year-old sister Ali with her. A source says:

Dating Madonna Is A Religious Experience; Kimora Lee Simmons & Djimon Hounsou Married?

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Madonna took Jesus Luz to a Kabbalah service. Again. This paper calls her "the world's most boring date." [Daily Mail]

Rollergirls Are A Hit In New Jersey • Georgia O'Keeffe To Get The 'Lifetime' Treatment

Maria — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:40:00 EST

• Women's roller derby is becoming popular in New Jersey, where seven leagues with more than a dozen teams have been created since 2005. • Fox Japan and Fuji TV network have announced that they're making a Japanese version of Sideways. • A British Muslim OB/GYN who has seen Muslim patients with bruises says she believes that domestic violence is more common in Muslim households because Muslim men fell they have "a God-given right" to beat their wives. • More »

Hookers, Victims & Doormats

Jessica G. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:20:00 EST

Breaking! Some dude over at the Huffington Post figured out that being a female in Hollywood sucks! You're either Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson basically sucking face in The Other Boleyn Girl or you're a creaky old crone like Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen in Bonneville, saying things like "Oh, doesn't that just take you back?" The writer in question, Metro film critic Daniel Holloway wonders why "women who look like Scarlett Johansson are handed roles that require them to do little more than look like Scarlett Johansson, while any woman over 45 is left in such a pickle that she jumps at any part with more than 15 lines." Man, we've been asking that question for months now! And anyway, Goldie Hawn said it best in the First Wives Club: "There are 3 roles for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney, and 'Driving Miss Daisy.'" [Huffington Post] More »

Sandra Bullock Goes From Tomboy To Girly-Girl

Anna — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories