Chris Colfer Publishes Novel, Makes You Realize What You Could Have Done At 22 If You Hadn't Been Hungover

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…
New Girl Creator on Female Characters: 'There Is a Double Standard'
Tonight is the season finale of the truly funny/weird/relatable sitcom New Girl, which has been surprisingly enjoyable and amounting to much more than its marketing would lead one to believe. The Fox slogan "simply adorkable" doesn't really reflect what the show is about: Being neurotic, constructing a family from…
Zooey Deschanel: 'Maybe We're All Bitches.'
I'm not mad at Zooey Deschanel. I'm not that into what she's selling, though I do covet the lustrous hair and am fascinated by those lower-lid eyelash extensions. (Seems treacherous, though). What does tend to grate, though, is the idea that any criticism of a woman in public life is automatically anti-feminist.
Funny Women, "Target Demographic: Young Men" World
Amid the retrospectives and interviews populating women in comedy week week over at Splitsider, there's the now-customary debate over the paucity of women in comedy writing jobs. And, maybe, some reasons to be optimistic.
No Strings Attached Director Uses The F-Word
No Strings Attached director Ivan Reitman says his movie is "really a feminist-based R-rated film whose tonality is really different than the movies that Judd Apatow has made." After all, it was written by a 28-year-old member of the Fempire.
Diablo Cody's Friends Help Her Laugh Off The Haters
The New York Times' Deborah Schoeneman spent some time with screenwriters Lorene Scafaria, Dana Fox, Liz Meriwether and Diablo Cody, who work, play and support each other in the face of Hollywood and haters.
