Filed under: elle magazine, fashion, other blogs/sources | Tags: elle uk; natalie portman;
natalie portman is featured in the febuary issue of Elle UK and she looks simply gorgeous. i hate that sophisticated magazines (and by sophisticated, i mean magazines that serve a higher purpose than celebrities without makeup and this omgz! teen talk that so many magazines are falling prey to) are focused on celebs but at least mags like Elle (and her international sister editions) are featuring actresses with talent, a brain and that reflect an traditional ideology of what it means to be a performer and a woman. These women are not flash-in-the-pan crap actors. They are not featured in OK! or any brand of American trash mags.
And the interview/writing skills of the Elle staff members are admirable and (aside from the giddy writer that interviewed Alec Baldwin a couple of months ago) intelligent. They don’t go all “OMGZ! NATALIE!” in gaudy font and they don’t harass about diet routines or drama…they treat the celebrity interview like any other journalistic piece–with respect.
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Filed under: film, glamour, other blogs/sources | Tags: film; gone with the wind; vivian leigh; clark gable
Filed under: first look, musical, other blogs/sources, television | Tags: alyson hannigan; josh radnor; colbie smulders; jason segel; neil patrick harris; how i met your mother; musical; television; cbs
Here’s the first look at How I Met Your Mother’s Jan 11th, and 100th, episode, “Girls vs. Suits” which will feature the show’s first-ever musical number. 65 dancers! A 50 piece orchestra! Neil Patrick Harris singing and dancing! Love, love, love this show.
Harris says the episode feels like “an old MGM musical” and the show’s creators hint that viewers will get big time clues to the identity of “the mother”. Finally!
Source: USA Today
Images: Cliff Lipson, CBS
Filed under: other blogs/sources, theatre | Tags: broadway; new york times
It warms my spirit to read that a visually-impaired actress has won the understudy role to actress Abigail Breslin in the Broadway revival of “The Miracle Worker”, making the young girl, Kyra Siegel, one of only a few visually or hearing-impaired actors to be working this season. While the producers hoped to find an actress who was visually/hearing-impaired in support of their willingness to represent that audience on the stage, they maintained their decision was made primarily on Siegel’s acting talent.
The production also will be offering “audio and caption devices, known as D-Scriptive and I-Caption, free to blind, low-vision, deaf or hard-of-hearing audience members.” The new technological additions added an additional $30,000 to the production, but it will be completely worth the expensive.
I love inclusive theatre.
Filed under: New York Times, other blogs/sources | Tags: the new york times
“Advocating for Girls’ Sports With a Sharp Tongue”
Katie Thomas
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/sports/30advocate.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes
I am not an athlete and had no desire beyond one miserable (and unusually cold) fall season of rec-league soccer in 2nd grade. “Never again”, I believe I said. Trust me, that’s one promise I have stuck with. Regardless, this article is worth sharing.
Filed under: other blogs/sources | Tags: i am emily x; planned parenthood; women's rights
I have only recently stumbled upon the “I am Emily X” blog, a project created and written by Planned Parenthood employees and sadly the project is now over. The blog was created against the “40 Days of Life” campaign, an anti-choice activist group. The creator, the original Emily X, had an idea that for 40 days, September 23rd through November 3rd, would blog about the encounters with protestors at his/her Planned Parenthood center. Readers can pledge a amount per protestor to raise funds in support of Planned Parenthood. The posts are heartbreaking and memorizing as each Planned Parenthood staff member, collectively listed as Emily X, detail why they do the job they do. It’s not always about providing abortion services, which is a reality that I wish more people would recognize. They provide contraception and medical services that many women (AND MEN!) cannot get elsewhere.
It’s a beautiful read and I wish I had read it sooner.
http://www.iamemilyx.blogspot.com
