According to the caption: “Circa 1450, A group of ladies in the grounds of a castle watching one of their number as she prepares to shoot a stag with a bow and arrow.” But a closer look—check the lady on the right holding that main bitch’s train—reveals that it ought to read something more like, “Attendants grow…
You're probably not lookinh to the Bachelor franchise for good examples of self awareness or gender equality (and if you are, best of luck to you), so it should really come as no surprise to learn that the peacocking bros of The Bachelorette do not take losing to a women's soccer team particularly well — even when…
Original Bachelorette Trista Sutter (née Rehn) was on today's Good Morning America to discuss her recent "pre-40" makeover for which she received, among other things, a breast augmentation and eye lift. While news coverage of plastic surgery procedures is generally cringe-worthy, this segment was particularly…
As the buzz surrounding acerbic female-centric black comedy Bachelorette continues, Leslye Headland —who adapted and directed the film from the play version that she'd written—has expounded in interviews on the difficulty that test audiences had with watching women do cocaine ("Oh, OK, well, if they were all 40 and…
It's unfortunate, in a way, that Bachelorette came out after Bridesmaids. The story was actually a stage play in 2010 (when it was, sigh, compared to Sex And The City), and although there are bridesmaids at the heart of the story, Bachelorette is quite different. In Bridesmaids, when Maya Rudolph's character…
What should a morning show expect when they invite on three edgy young actresses to promote a dark and raunchy wedding comedy? Talk of lace frocks and little white gloves? Tips for being the ultimate hostess? A rousing discussion on needlepoint? No? How about some good ol' fashioned stories about tea-bagging, the…
Last night the premiere of Bachelorette took place in Hollywood, California, and the stars — Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan and Kirsten Dunst — looked polished and patriotic in red, white and blue.
In her continued (and, if you ask me, unnecessary) bid for relevancy, Madonna most recently pissed off Mothers Against Guns during her MDNA tour. They objected when Madge waved around some (fake) firearms onstage during a concert in Murrayfield, Scotland not 48 hours after the Colorado Dark Knight Rises shooting, also…
Admittedly, it's a little disconcerting to acknowledge that the post-Bridesmaids "bridesmaids behaving badly/horribly" is now a common movie trope, since there are many other settings for women to lose their shit that aren't about wedding insecurities. (The DMV! A McDonalds Playplace ball pit! Hershey Park! Anywhere…
We've lost count of how many "threats" Glee star Chris Colfer is at this point: dancing, singing, acting, onscreen ascot-wearing, a 2011 Time Magazine Influential Person, and now novel-writing. Sextuple threat? The Golden Globe winner and two-time Emmy nominee's debut novel, a fantasy called The Land of Stories: The…
Because raunchy rom-com screenwriters need something to work with besides "uptight woman with bun learns how to loosen up/get fucked right," The Abbey, a prominent gay bar in West Hollywood, has put the kibosh on all bachelorette parties until marriage is legal for all people everywhere.
It appears the time has come for every celebrity mother to take sides in the attachment parenting debate. Today Alanis Morissette planted herself firmly in "very attached" territory by saying she still breastfeeds her 16-month-old son Ever and won't stop until he asks her to. She thinks it's going to save her on…
An incandescent Mariah Carey and boy-husband Labradoodle Nick Cannon renewed their wedding vows last night in Edison, New Jersey. Just kidding, on the top of the Eiffel Tower. She spent her luxurious Parisian afternoon shopping at Baby Dior for #dembabies. Cannon spent his standing against a wall, unblinking, until…
Now that we're living in a post-Bridesmaids world, everyone is aware that being forced into various social situations with a group of women you barely know can be pretty uncomfortable. At least at the bachelorette party you usually have booze to get you through the night, but some brides are taking that away from…
Another season of The Bachelorette has come and gone. Exhale. But last night's heartbreaking/heartwarming extravaganza nailed all the necessary points in the franchise's finale routine.
And then there were two. But at the beginning of the episode there were four, then there were five, and then there were two. Let me explain.
Last night, the final four contestants flew to their hometowns with Ashley for the dreaded meeting of the parents, and just as you'd expect, it was filled with skeptical sisters and judgmental mothers. The highlights above are divided by each "Hometown Date" — here is what you need to know about each of them:
ABC premiered their new series The Bachelor Pad last night, and it was all kinds of crazy. It had everything they promised - tears, fights, hookups, guitars - with one key difference.
Why is everyone The Bachelor and The Bachelorette white? It's a question that needs to be both asked and answered.
Earlier today, I made several frustrating attempts to spell the word "bachelorette" in Movable Type, but that red squiggle kept appearing beneath it. I IM'd Dodai and asked her, "How the fuck do you spell bachelorette?" Turns out I spelled it right the first time, MT just doesn't recognize it:
