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• Cindy Crawford pulls Tyra's patented couture pose on the cover of Vogue India's "Icons" issue. Cindy last popped up on the July cover of Elle Germany and made the front of April's L'Officiel. [Design Scene]

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The Women, the all-chick flick update of the 1939 classic comedy by the same name, opens today and has the unfortunate reputation of not being very good. The film has an all-star cast (Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Eva Mendes) and is written and directed by Diane English, a writer and producer for Murphy Brown. The premise of The Women doesn't stray far from the original — rich woman's husband cheats on her with a salesgirl — but the minor details of the story have been updated to fulfill a laundry list of contemporary issues and ultimately makes the update less funny and more of a sappy "BFFs Foreva!" failure. Read the reviews, after the jump. More »
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Diane English, the woman who adapted the forthcoming film The Women, is adapting Erica Jong's classic feminist novel Fear of Flying for the movies. Flying's heroine, Isadora Wing, is a poet in a marginally unhappy marriage who indulges in a number of sexually freeing affairs while at a psychiatry conference with her shrink husband in Vienna. English, who is also directing Flying, tells E! that she wants Kate Winslet to play Isadora. Kate Winslet coining the zipless fuck? Something about that doesn't sit quite right with us — Winslet seems not introspective enough and a little vanilla for Isadora — so we figured out a few alternatives. Vote on your favorite after the jump. More »
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30 Rock is so hot right now. First there was the rumor that Oprah will guest on the critically acclaimed sitcom, and now comes word that Gossip Girls Leighton Meester and Blake Lively will appear as classmates of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) in a totally 80s flashback. Can we say that we're so excited for this show to come back??? • Cloris Leachman on her estrofest co-stars in The Women: "They were just marvelous and thrilling…Everyone I adore." • Lance Armstrong, that infamous lover of lithe blondes, spoke with Men's Journal about his dating life. "I'm a 36-year-old single guy who is completely open and honest with every woman in my life," says Armstrong. "As long as you're honest, and no one's getting played or let down, then you're being fair." [E! Online, LAT, People] More »
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For those of us who love George Cukor's original campfest, the remake of The Women is such a total travesty that it goes against the grain to admit that anything about it is less than awful. And yet, honesty compels me to admit that the cast assembled last night — Meg Ryan, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debi Mazar, Eva Mendes et al — looked pretty darn good. It wasn't all roses; the director, for her sins, looked pretty meh, and Tara Reid was there. But you know what? This farce has so little to do with the original, I won't even pay it the compliment of calling it a remake. To keep our sanity, let's just think of this as another crappy ensemble comedy with a surprisingly good red carpet. The Good, the Bad, the Women — after the jump! More »
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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 »
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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. More »
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