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11/4/10

Teacher Punished For Showering With Students

A Welsh teacher is accused of an inappropriate relationship with her female students, after she gave them presents,…

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Prostitute-Turned-Teacher Offered Chance To Pose Nude

High Society has offered Melissa Petro, the former prostitute recently removed from her Bronx teaching job, $60,000…

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Teacher Unjustly Punished For Revealing Her Sex-Work Past

An elementary school teacher has been reassigned for publicly revealing her past as a stripper and prostitute. Does…

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Carey Mulligan Told "Marry A Banker" Rather Than Act

Strangely enough, when Carey Mulligan isn't posing for the goons at Vogue, she can look quite lovely. And has some in…

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An Education Director Lone Scherfig Prefers Leading Men

"In all my films, the leading characters are men in their 30s.... Men are much more interesting to me because…

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BAFTA Nominations Include Two Female Directors

The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and An Education's Lone Scherfig are nominated, as Women & Hollywood points out.…

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Marisa Tomei Takes It All Off; Gina Gershon Hangs At The Brothel

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories.

Jessica G.

2/12/08 9:30AM

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