He can be your hero, baby / He can kiss away the pain

The world is Greta Gerwig’s oyster; Lady Bird has been both a financial and critical success. Where will she go next? Sacramento! Again and again and again.

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On Tuesday, USA Today reported that Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer had offered evidence aimed at discrediting Rose McGowan’s claim that the disgraced Hollywood producer raped her in 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival.

Lady Bird, a film entirely deserving of every iota of praise that’s been heaped upon it, has notched yet another success, becoming one of the few movies in history to earn 100 percent positive reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Greta Gerwig’s movie Lady Bird takes place in 2002, when heartbreak was soundtracked to Dave Matthews Band and teen romance demanded Justin Timberlake. And as a guest on last night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, Gerwig revealed that she sent highly personalized letters to the artists whose music she needed.

Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird, the charming coming-of-age comedy starring Saoirse Ronan, broke box office records its opening weekend.

Most teenage characters are unbelievably precocious. Teens of the big (The Fault In Our Stars, Edge of Seventeen) and small screen (Riverdale, Awkward) today, in comedies especially made for and marketed to actual teenagers, are indebted to the Juno MacGuffs, Seth Cohens and Rory Gilmores of recent pop culture past.…

Saoirse Ronan plays Lady Bird in the upcoming coming-of-age film of the same name; it’s her given name, because she gave it to herself.