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Earlier this year, we took a look at some life lessons given to us by B-list 90s teen films. But what did we learn from the teen films of the 00s? Let's take a look, shall we? More »
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Sassmaster Diablo Cody tells her haters to shove it on her blog: "I may have won 19 awards that you don't feel I earned, but it's neither original nor relevant to slag on Juno. Really. And you're not some bold, singular voice of dissent, You are exactly like everyone else in your zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod… I'm sorry that while you were shooting your failed opus at Tisch, I was jamming toxic silicon toys up my ass for money. I get why you're bitter. I took exactly one film class in college and — with the curious exception of the Douglas Sirk unit — it bored the shit out of me. I also once got busted for loudly crinkling a bag of Jujubes during a classroom screening of Vivre Sa Vie. I don't deserve to be here. We've established that. But I'm here. Five million 12-year-olds think I'm Buck Henry. Accept it." [MySpace via ONTD] More »
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When we got the tip this morning that a woman was anonymously Tumblring her abortion, my first though was, oh Christ. I figured it would be some sort of Vice-ian shock value rant. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the blog "What To Expect When You're Aborting," is both funny and servicey! The tagline to the site is "I'm 23. I'm knocked up. And I don't want to keep it. You can fuck yourself, Judd Apatow," which endeared me to the writer immediately, and she also has a list of five movies that "aren't so hot on abortion." (Sample: Cheaper By the Dozen -Really? After 9 kinds no one decided to pop in a diaphragm?) More »
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Another day, another dollar, another article bemoaning the fact that Hollywood doesn't feel the need to stigmatize and slut-shame teenagers who get pregnant. This time, writer Sarah Kliff says that young Hollywood mothers and movies/TV shows like Juno and The Secret Life of the American Teenager supposedly glamorize teen pregnancy and will make young women go, wow, that doesn't seem quite so bad! Because, really, that's what every single teen girl does, right? Ellen Page is so cute, and it's totally not a fictional story or anything and being pregnant is so fun la-la-la-la you're not listening to any other media messages and oh, did you notice that the supposed Gloucester pregnancy pact was formulated around that time or something? It's obviously going to make teenage pregnancy cool again! Or, you know, for the first time. Or, you know, not at all because most teenage girls realize that pregnancy can delay or outright squash certain kinds of dreams. More »
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Last night while watching CNN, I saw one of those cheesy family vacation commercials — this one for Atlantis, the resort in the Bahamas — and a very familiar song was playing. And then I realized that it was "Anyone Else But You," the tune heard almost every five minutes in Juno. The lyrics have been reworked to be about swimming with dolphins and going "golfin'." It looks like the Moldy Peaches have cashed in! Clip above. More »
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A Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana is offering adoption services. "It just seems to fit so well with our philosophy of providing women with choice," says a spokeswoman. Huh. So, lots of material here, in light of Planned Parenthood's recent strategy to become the "LensCrafters of Family Planning"…as if the choice between surgical and medical is akin to glasses/contacts, and giving birth to to a person you then cede to another person…sort of like Lasik? Choice…it is an odd term. If I were like, some serious essayist I might consult the OED and books like this and maybe riff on how a word once synonymous with freedom itself has turned at once dour and grim and devoid of meaning, maybe because the type of choice you can't make in the time it takes to type your credit card number into an encrypted database isn't generally that fun to make? More »
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• From Anya Hindmarch to Barbie, the trend of "Green" handbags has officially run its course. • Prep author naturally turns to Laura Bush for new book. • Juno is on top of the DVD-sales charts, those Hills ads work! • Did you know that we ascribe gender stereotypes to women and men? Groundbreaking! • Norman Mailer's former mistress dishes on sex life for 50 pages. • Lovers too poor to wed cozy up on bridge in Cairo. • India to increase penalties in aborting female fetuses. • Berlin set up a walk-in clinic to help stalkers. • Saudis are slow to accept working women. • Reflecting on meals can curb overeating. • Two fatal accidents at Indian weddings leave 43 dead. More »
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A reader pointed us to a blog called xkcd, where the poster asks, "Quick, name a few recent popular movies where the two top-billed stars are female." Does your mind go blank? Hollywood loves a buddy movie, but when it comes to women, they're usually love interests, or looking for love interests. Especially recently. Of course, indie films and horror or sci-fi flicks often get away with having a woman as the lead (and not in love), but indie ≠ Hollywood. And directors get away with having a woman as the hero in a horror or sci-fi movie because it's not real. It's a fantasy when Milla Jovovich kicks zombie ass or Uma Thurman slashes ninjas with a samurai sword. In any case, the guy from xkcd tallied up the male/male pairings, the male/female pairings, the female/male parings and female/female pairings of a few years' worth of movies, using IMDB to pinpoint the 20 biggest titles of each year. Here's what he found: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383311&view=rss&microfeed=true Juno was released on DVD today, and as FourFour's Rich brilliantly points out, teenage heroine Angela Chase of My So-Called Life is the anti-Juno. While Juno reveled in her own quirkiness and established individuality — something that is rare, if not nonexistent among teens — Angela dealt with the desperation of "fitting in" and over-thinking every situation in an attempt to try to figure out who the hell she was. Her efforts led to introspective voiceovers that are as hilarious as they are wise: "I thought at least by age 15, I would have a love life. But I don't even have a like life" and "The thought that I might be seeing Jordan Catalano in a few hours was, like, impossible to comprehend. Like when they first tell you about infinity." "It's so weird that teachers actually, like, live places." Clip above. More »
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Smart People is a new movie that tries to be both quirky and semi-intellectual by putting respectable actors in roles that they had already successfully played in movies made by more creative people. Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence, a douchebaggy literature professor, who has a wise-cracking, vintage-wearing teenage daughter (Juno! I mean, Ellen Page) and starts a relationship with beautiful but romantically-awkward woman (Sarah Jessica Parker) through whom he has to learn how to be a nicer person. Oh yeah, he also has a lazy but lovable brother played by Thomas Haden Church, who provides some comic relief. But what do the critics have to say? Can they successfully point out all of the hilarious subtle references to life in the intelligentsia? Can they get through an entire review without calling the movie "Stupid People?" The collected reviews after the jump. More »
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Last night, Juno star Ellen Page hosted Saturday Night Live, and, during her monologue, Andy Samberg showed up dressed as Diablo Cody, taking a jab at the writing in Cody's Oscar-winning script by speaking only in puns. We really liked "Page against the machine" and "Coolio Iglesius," but the best one was definitely "Snoop Bloggy Blog featuring Nate Blog." Very funny, but it was grating that Samberg added "I'm a stripper!" as he walked off the stage. Everyone needs to stop with that. Not because stripping is shameful or embarrassing, but because the joke is just stupid and not funny. More »
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For the last few months, reports Erin Carlson of the Associated Press, Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody has been somewhat of an anomaly in Hollywood: The Celebrity Writer. "Not even wordsmith heavies Paul Haggis, Wes Anderson or Charlie Kaufman have stood in a spotlight so bright," writes Carlson. "But then, none of them had the allure of a pole-dancing past, punkish attitude or surprising smash-hit, Oscar-worthy pregnancy comedy." Of course, as most celebs know, there's a terrible downside to fame: The Haters. And one can't help thinking it's a Crime Against Womanity. Would the Coen brothers ever be so aggressively mocked in parody videos? Would anyone have called Waldo Salt a whore? Blame the shoes. More »
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Juno scribe Diablo Cody, who was nominated along two other female writers this evening, just won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and we're wondering if she had some sort of wardrobe malfunction between the pre-show red carpet and the plush seating in the Kodak Theater. Right after her name was called, Diablo seemed less stunned by her win and more concerned about how much of her body her gauzy, animal-print gown was revealing to the billions of people watching on TV. (Dear Diablo: Not too much!) No matter: By the time she reached the stage, outward emotion won out, and Diablo, statuette in hand, proved during her speech that even tough broads aren't above shedding a tear. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=360225&view=rss&microfeed=true For those of you whose expectations of Juno fell way short of the crazy amount of hype it received, here's a pretty great spoof on the film and its screenwriter, Diablo Cody, played by Jackie Clarke (who'd previously done an awesome parody of Brenda Dickson's Welcome to My Home.) More »
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"Not in the slightest... it happens to be a film about a girl who has a baby and gives it to a yuppie couple... Like, I'm really sorry to everyone that she doesn't have an abortion, but that's not what the film is about. She goes to an abortion clinic and she completely examines all the opportunities and all the choices allowed her and that's obviously the most crucial thing. It's as simple as that. I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is." -Oscar nominated actress Ellen Page on whether her film Juno is a pro-life movie. [Washington Post] More »
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"There can be no female agency in Knocked Up, Waitress, and Juno — not because they are comedies, but because, in each scenario, unwanted pregnancy is the joke played (by God?) on the female lead. As the most successful of the preg protags, she who is Knocked Up is necessarily the most smacked down — the glass ceiling turns out to be Alison's own uterus. Jenna and Juno are less formidable, but unexpected fertility mocks their dreams of autonomy. All three are taught their place by their own bodies—and what's more, they learn to like it." — Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman on 2007, the year of the "abortion-not" movie. [Village Voice] More »
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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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Although their band the Moldy Peaches have been on an indefinite hiatus since 2004, Kimya Dawson and Adam Green have been temporarily performing in support of the Juno soundtrack, which features one of their songs, as well as a bunch of songs by Kimya alone. The pair performed "Anyone Else But You," which, if you've seen Juno, you probably already know the words to, since it seems to play on repeat through the whole damn movie. It was kinda weird seeing this anti-folk duo on something as mainstream as The View, and, while Adam seemed right at home engaging with Whoopi, Kimya looked pretty uncomfortable, despite the fact that she was wearing what I like to refer to as "blogging casual." Clip above. (Oh, and someone was confused in the View control room! Check it out after the jump.) 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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Not only is today Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade. (Erica Jong weighs in here.) And did you know that one of the most vocal abortion opponents is Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, self-described "reformed murderer" Alveda King? (King, seen above left, had two abortions when she was younger, and offers up this gem: "We give free sex education, free condoms, free birth control. That's almost like permission to have free sex.") Yup, less than a week after the news broke that the abortion rate in the U.S. is at its lowest in 45 years, the media is coming out with its inevitable "the women behind the abortions" stories, and the (not-so-surprising) news is that the majority of abortions are being performed on women who have already had kids, many of them college-educated. In fact, in the 35 years since Roe vs. Wade, there have been roughly 50 million abortions in the United States, with more than 1/3 of adult women estimated to have had one (a disproportionate number of those women are black or Hispanic). And on this, the eve of the anniversary of Roe V. Wade, I'll say it: I am one of those women. More »
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We're not sure whether to laugh or cry at this, but Ellen Page will grace the cover of Teen Vogue. (This will probably, and hopefully, be the only time in her life that Ellen follows in Lauren Conrad's hallowed footsteps.) We trust that Ellen will remain as wonderfully salty as she normally is and that she scandalizes Wintour's army of Voguettes with talk of her haunted whorehouse. [Fashionista] More »
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Ever since Jamie Lynn Spears announced she was with child, teen pregnancy has been a hot button editorial topic, especially in the wake of the success of accidental-mom rom-coms Juno and Knocked Up. So it was only a matter of time until Caitlin Flanagan, the former New Yorker scribe who fancies herself an authority on adolescent sexuality, weighed in. Flanagan is infamous for writing a ridiculously fear-mongering screed in the Atlantic in 2006 about how America's 12-year-olds dispense blow jobs like Pez, in part because porn stars like Jenna Jameson used "abortion rhetoric" about "keeping the government out of private decisions about their own bodies" for profit. More »
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Diablo Cody's ascent in Hollywood continues apace: Her hit film, Juno, made second place in the weekend box office, surpassing the Will Smith starrer I Am Legend, and, in a hat trick for women in Hollywood, the Juno screenwriter's script, Jennifer's Body, has been picked up by Fox Atomic with director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) set to direct. The film, described as a "quirky comedic thriller", follows a cheerleader (Megan Fox) "whose perfect life goes haywire when she becomes possessed and begins killing the young men in town who lust after her." Looove it. [Variety, Variety] More »
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• First, we made a New Year's resolution to be nicer to womanity.

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Juno director Jason Reitman's "review" of Paris Hilton's sex tape: "...this is the most depressing pornographic film ever shot. A girl so desperate for love that she allowed a dreg of a human being to video tape her as she felates him. The posturing you see her doing on the red carpet is finally revealed not to be an act, but rather the constant state of a girl who seems to be in a constant depression. There are honestly moments when you can't help think, I had no idea feigning ennui could be done with a full mouth." [Jason Reitman's Junoverse Page] More »
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Juno's adorable Ellen Page is the subject an interview on "Carpetbagger," the New York Times' Oscar blog. It's a bit milquetoast, but you do learn that Page named her dog Patti after Patti Smith and that everyone at some dinner honoring Juno got a hamburger phone just like Ellen's in the movie. More »
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Considering the avalanche of praise heaped on screenwriter Diablo Cody's debut film, Juno, an equally intense backlash was predictable. In fact, a piece on Slate yesterday explored the potential culture wars on teen pregnancy the movie could inspire. Writer Ann Hulbert quotes NY Times critic A.O. Scott's review of Juno, in which he writes, "Not many [movies] are so daring in their treatment of teenage pregnancy, which this film flirts with presenting not just as bearable but attractive...Kids, please! Heed the cautionary whale." Feminist bloggers have accused Cody of glossing over Juno's deciding against abortion for the sake of moving the plot forward. Here's the thing, though. I don't really want to see a comedy about a normal, happy 16-year-old kid deciding to have an abortion. Because it would be boring, and probably not that funny. More »
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The great irony of Katherine Heigl getting quoted saying she was annoyed that all the women in Knocked Up were portrayed as "humorless and uptight" is that she did it in the magazine that last year gave Chris Hitchens a platform for arguing that all women were humorless and uptight. (Hey females, you know what's funny?? When you complain about how no one thinks you're funny!!!) Okay, seriously though, now Juno comes along, and it's supposed to be this awesome feminist response to Knocked Up, the only problem is that the dialogue is just a little bit too funny. Not realistic enough! Too caught up in its own cleverness! And then today, we get, only because we've been waiting too long for someone else to weigh in on this subject, a deconstruction of the two back-to-back scenes that define the gender tension of Knocked Up: the part where the dudes go to Vegas and do mushrooms, and the part where the girls go out and get negged from the very club Heigl met the father of her very large fetus, with the bouncer's memorable line "I mean you're too old for this club, not...for the Earth." More »
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If "Jezebel" were a person, she very well might be up and coming screenwriter Diablo Cody, an ex-stripper and phone sex operator who pens hilarious movies with serious Oscar buzz, dresses like Courtney Love did about halfway through her glam makeover (she wears satin jumpers but also combat boots), writes a blog called the Pussy Ranch, and has made it her mission to create films with multifaceted female leads. Diablo's heroines are not just reacting to the choices of male characters — these women are actually choosing their own destinies. More »
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