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Women Scorned

Things Are Looking Up For The Women In Hollywood

Ever since Sex and the City turned out to be a money making juggernaut, Warner Brothers has decided to aggressively market The Women. "This is an about-face from the studio's earlier decision to leave plans intact for about-to-shutter Picturehouse to debut the chick flick in limited release and with a small P&A," says Nikki Finke, who has been following the fate of the Meg Ryan-helmed film for some time now (also starring: Annette Bening, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett Smith). If you'll recall, last year Warner Brothers' Jeff Robinov famously declared, "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Well apparently he's doing at least one movie with a woman in the lead, and while that's heartening, movies still have a long way to go. Looking at the just-released shortlist for Emmy nominations, however, shows that there are myriad plum roles for leading ladies on the small screen. Which leads me to wonder: why is there such an enormous disconnect between females on TV and the ones on the silver screen? More »

12:30 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Jessica
3,774 views, 83 comments

Latest by millerhighlife: maybe it has something to do with this idea that women are more "complicated" than men...that the mainly male hollywood writers don't have the vision or talent to present a relatable and real image of a woman within two hours, more »

women scorned

Ultimate Chick Flick The Women Is Finally About To See The Silver Screen

Here's the trailer for The Women, the Diane English remake of the 1939 George Cukor film based on the play by Clare Booth Luce. According to Nikki Finke, the movie — which features an all-female cast (Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Debi Mazur, Joanna Gleason, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield and Cloris Leachman) and is directed and produced by a woman as well — had a dicey future, despite the fact that Sex and the City proved that women actually, you know, go to see movies. It took 15 years to get The Women made, and male studio execs, whom Finke refers to as the "he-man woman-haters club" were about to shut the movie down, but had a change of heart and the film will now be released this September.


The Women Trailer [Yahoo]
Updated: Why Won't Warner Embrace 'The Women'? Or Will It? And What Other Female Film Isn't Getting Love There? [Deadline Hollywood Daily]

12:00 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Slut Machine
9,166 views, 189 comments

Latest by kirability: Nice to see that Meg Ryan's lips are back to normal and that Annette Bening still looks fabulous. more »

women scorned

Just Got Dumped? Maybe It's Time To Scream, Stalk, And Embrace Your Inner Stacy

After hearing about the Herpes Avenger, the Brooklyn woman who plastered the face of an STD-carrying former lover all over her neighborhood and the internets, my first thought was Jesus, what a psycho. But then I read what Moe wrote about her boyfriend and "acting like a typically-female species of psychopath" after a breakup and I thought, huh, maybe the behavior of the herpes harlot is actually semi-justifiable! Because let's be honest. We've all been that girl before. At least I have. I freely admit that I peed on my freshman year boyfriend's porch after he dumped me, and I also might have fucked someone's best friend after he refused to break up with me in person. I polled the other Jezebels, and apparently each one of us has been known to pay a visit psychotown on occasion. More »

1:00 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Jessica
10,629 views, 226 comments

Latest by mizzal: By all means, embrace the psycho ex, but please, please do not take it as far as this young woman did: [www.boston.com] more »