Elephants Give Final Performance for Ringling Bros. Circus
After years of protests from the Humane Society and other animal activists, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are retiring their elephants.
Amy Schumer Calls for Better Background Checks After Trainwreck Shooting
New York Senator Chuck Schumer and his slightly better-known cousin Amy held a joint press conference Monday, calling for stronger background checks and better mental health funding as part of a plan to try to reduce the devastating number of mass shootings in the United States. A gunman killed two women and injured…
Naked by Choice: A Chat About Feminism with Actress Caitlin Stasey
In the middle of January, actress Caitlin Stasey (who you may know from Reign or Please Like Me) made ripples across both the feminist and entertainment blogospheres when she launched Herself, a website profiling women who are willing to strip down both emotionally and physically to tell their stories and talk about…
Mad Men: The Ads Don Wasn't Supposed To Tear Out Of Megan's Magazine
On the season premiere of Mad Men last night Megan implores Don to not tear the ads out of her magazine. We just happened to notice from the cover that it was the February 1969 issue of Playboy that she was rightly safeguarding. We dipped into our archives to find out which ads appeared in that issue and gathered the…
Chinese Officials Debate Why South Korea's Soap Operas Are Better
There's a lot going on in China, so it may come as a surprise that when the country's two highest governing boards met in Beijing last week, the hottest topic of discussion wasn't the recent terrorist attack that left 33 dead or the country's economy; it was a South Korean soap opera that's been sweeping the nation…
Your Vicious, Power-Hungry Pals Are Back in New House Of Cards Teasers
"I don't know whether to be proud or terrified," Frank Underwood declares in one of the new teaser trailers for season two of the Netflix hit series House Of Cards. Pretty sure he's referring to his wife, Claire Underwood, whose steely strength and frosty aura — she really is a one-woman polar vortex — are back in…
People Found Last Night's Grammys So, So, So Disgusting
Award shows present the average Joe/Jane Twitter with the opportunity, from the comfort of their own midpriced sweatpants, to talk shit about celebrities who make commercially successful art-products that are not to the tastes of said Joe/Jane Twitter, and last night's Grammy awards telecast was no exception. But…
You're Getting Super High-Def Porn Whether You Like It Or Not
A small porn studio in Southern California betting the fuck-farm on a new technology that promises to make the art of filming various body parts and things entering various body holes so graphic that you can practically smell the crotch sweat and feel the chafing. "Super high definition porn" that makes you feel like…
2013 Was a Great Year for Women Over 40 in Hollywood
As the month winds down, a few twenty/thirty-somethings — Miley, Beyoncé, JLaw — are making headlines. But looking back at American entertainment in 2013 as a whole, it was a great year for women over 40.
Up-and-Comer Lena Waithe Is More Than Just the 'Black Lena Dunham'
There's one particular scene from the pilot presentation for Twenties, a show centered on a twenty-something black woman named Hattie, that's not like anything you've seen on television. A few black women are sitting around at a birthday party, and one, Marie, mentions she needs a pad. Their white friend, Lauren,…
Water Parks Are Filthy Cesspools of Despair
It's hot. It's so very, very hot. It's so hot that you can poach your morning eggs in your armpit. It's so hot that you're willing to face the ultimate funk in order to reach a body temperature safe to humans: Water parks. You might imagine yourself with a pina colada in hand, butt down in an inner tube, lazily…
Film Criticism Is a Really Nerdy Boys’ Club, Study Finds
Women still have a hard time gaining traction behind the camera in Hollywood (no thanks to these paleolithic attitudes), a statistical fact underscored by a new study confirming some of your naggiest of nagging suspicions about the phallocentric film criticism dominating the splattered tomato viscera at Rotten…
Pretty Little Liars and 'Harlem Shake' Are the Future
This week's EW cover story is about the power of Pretty Little Liars. It doesn't matter if you don't watch the show (which is actually pretty good and very addictive) — what's important are the numbers, and what they mean. See, compared to some other TV programs, PLL doesn't have huge ratings — not even half as many…
The Good News and the Bad News About the New Cleopatra TV Series
Certain dead people have the dubious honor of being resuscitated over and over again for entertainment purposes: Marilyn Monroe, Jesus, Lincoln. And Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Her tale has been told by luminaries like Shakespeare and Liz Taylor, and now there's a four-hour miniseries in the works.
Dear Black Romcoms, Where'd You Go?
In the midst of planning for a midweek movie night, I had an epiphany.
Google Donates Over $1 Million to the Fight for Gender Balance in Children's Media
Founded in 2004, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is a research-based organization dedicated to analyzing and changing female portrayals and gender stereotypes in children's media and entertainment. Tuesday, Google launched the Global Impact Awards, and announced that the Geena Davis Institute would…
Twilight Screenwriter Reflects on the Series' Power in Hollywood
No matter how you feel about Twilight — love it or hate it — the phenomenon has been one of the biggest stories to come out of the movie industry in the last five years. Now that the series is ending, Melissa Rosenberg, who penned all of the scripts for the Twilight franchise, talked to Women And Hollywood about the…
Gifts For Pop Culture Junkies
Do you have an entertainment enthusiast, movie superfan or TV obsessive on your list this year? We've got some ideas for gifts and stocking stuffers that film buffs and armchair TV critics will love.
Rednecksploitation Is So Hot Right Now
A few years ago, reality TV was concerned with showcasing the lives of good-looking, affluent people: The wealthy lovebirds of Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica; rock royalty in The Osbournes, Ally Hilfiger and the moneyed kids on Rich Girls; Paris Hilton in The Simple Life, the sunny blondes of Laguna Beach and The Hills.…
Most of the Women on TV Are Being Directed By Men
The last couple of years have been pretty good for women on television, with new ladycentric programs like The Mindy Project, Girls, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls (so many girls) and Don't Trust The B— In Apt. 23. But while women are more visible in front of the camera, a recept report claims that they're completely missing…
