Regardless of how you feel about the polarizing writer/director Diablo Cody (Young Adult won me over, I gotta say), , it's nifty that she co-chaired the third year of the Athena Film Festival, an annual showcase for the works of women in the film industry. Vulture caught up with Cody to discuss Kathryn Bigelow's Zero…
Lady Gaga's Tour Rider Includes 'A Mannequin with Puffy Pink Pubic Hair'
GOD, I love reading famous people's tour riders. It's the fucking best. I don't begrudge them any of it—go nuts, stars!—but it's just so satisfying to peer into people's weird obsessions and/or whims and/or determination to fuck with their assistants. A legal document detailing Lady Gaga's demands was leaked this week, …
Diablo Cody Calls Out Hollywood: 'Women Have Not Had Their Say'
Sure, we're always saying Hollywood Has Run Out Of Ideas. But that's because the studios keep churning out hot messes like Battleship, Smufs and Candyland, in addition to revisiting old stuff like Tron and The Lone Ranger. (Did you know they're remaking Scarface?) But, as Diablo Cody tells The Hollywood Reporter, there …
Five Journalists Who Also Worked in Strip Clubs
Leave it to Houston Press writer Richard Connelly, author of "The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List," to wring his hands upon learning that Houston Chronicle writer Sarah Tressler was also working at a strip club
Female Directors Might Be Ignored By Hollywood, But They're Celebrated…
Love movies? Wish you could see more quality, lady-friendly stuff? Take note: The second annual Athena Film Festival— a celebration of "women's leadership in both real life and the fictional world"— is right around the corner, February 9-12, at Barnard College in New York City. This year's awardees include the likes…
Grown-Ups In Awkward Ensembles At The Young Adult Premiere
The new Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman film, Young Adult, opened to wide release yesterday. The red carpet fashion was surprisingly modest, which seems fitting for a film whose power lies mostly in the small, nuanced moments rather than the sweepingly dramatic ones.
Sick Of Tired Chick Flick Clichés? So Is Diablo Cody.
In the last decade or so, women have been inundated with movies created "for" us — cloying romantic comedies in which the heroine is charming but clumsy/insecure/desperate; in which she can have a "cool" job but can never truly successful. And, as we learned in that Tad Friend piece about Anna Faris in The New Yorker…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Singer Karen O Is A Married Lady
Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O recently married longtime boyfriend Barnaby Clay. In case you're wondering who that is, Clay directed O in the 2009 video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs single "Zero," which is how oh so many rock n roll love stories begin. Okay, maybe this is the first but it could be more common than we think!
Charlize Theron's Eyes Are The True Stars In Young Adult
Jaded, drunk, bitter, disillusioned… Charlize Theron's Mavis — the main character in Young Adult — is a kind of a girl after our own hearts. In this trailer, the character comes off as scheming and unlikeable, but with that glimmer of desperation and depression that can be all-too familiar. As seen in this trailer,…
