Jan 26 2015
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With every promise of inclement weather comes a new batch of people just trying to feel something meaningful in…
Mar 26 2014
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Meryl Streep as a once-career-driven-now-retired rock star? Yes please. The Academy Award winner is attached to a…
May 7 2012
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Here's some science that will smack anti-abortion legislation in the face with facts: a new study shows that…
Dec 12 2009
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Earlier this year, we took a look at some life lessons given to us by B-list 90s teen films. But what did we learn…
Sep 18 2008
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Sassmaster Diablo Cody tells her haters to shove it on her blog: "I may have won 19 awards that you don't feel I earned, but it's neither original nor relevant to slag on Juno. Really. And you're not some bold, singular voice of dissent, You are exactly like everyone else in your zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod… I'm…
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Aug 22 2008
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When we got the tip this morning that a woman was anonymously Tumblring her abortion, my first though was, oh…
Jul 29 2008
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Another day, another dollar, another article bemoaning the fact that Hollywood doesn't feel the need to stigmatize…
Jul 23 2008
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Last night while watching CNN, I saw one of those cheesy family vacation commercials — this one for Atlantis, the…
Jul 9 2008
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A Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana is offering adoption services. "It just seems to fit so well with our…
Apr 24 2008
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• From Anya Hindmarch to Barbie, the trend of "Green" handbags has officially run its course. • Prep author…
Apr 23 2008
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A reader pointed us to a blog called xkcd, where the poster asks, "Quick, name a few recent popular movies where the…
Apr 15 2008
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Apr 11 2008
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Smart People is a new movie that tries to be both quirky and semi-intellectual by putting respectable actors in…
Mar 2 2008
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Last night, Juno star Ellen Page hosted Saturday Night Live, and, during her monologue, Andy Samberg showed up…
Feb 27 2008
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For the last few months, reports Erin Carlson of the Associated Press, Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody has…
Feb 24 2008
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Juno scribe Diablo Cody, who was nominated along two other female writers this evening, just won the Oscar for Best…
Feb 22 2008
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Feb 19 2008
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"Not in the slightest... it happens to be a film about a girl who has a baby and gives it to a yuppie couple... Like, I'm really sorry to everyone that she doesn't have an abortion, but that's not what the film is about. She goes to an abortion clinic and she completely examines all the opportunities and all the…
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Jan 25 2008
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"There can be no female agency in Knocked Up, Waitress, and Juno — not because they are comedies, but because, in each scenario, unwanted pregnancy is the joke played (by God?) on the female lead. As the most successful of the preg protags, she who is Knocked Up is necessarily the most smacked down — the glass ceiling…
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Jan 22 2008
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This year's female acting Oscar nominees are a strange bunch of characters — and no, we don't mean the narcissistic…