NBC on Friday became the second broadcast network (after CBS) to unveil its schedule for the Fall TV season. What shows are on the move, where did new ones land, and what’s on hold until midseason?
♦ The freshman hits Found and The Irrational are both moving to new nights for Season 2 — Thursday and Tuesday, respectively. “With [Law & Order: Organized Crime] moving to Peacock, that allows us to use Svu, which is obviously one of the strongest dramas on television, to lead into Found,” Jeff Bader, president of program planning strategy for NBCUniversal Entertainment, explained to TVLine, whereas The Irrational once again has The Voice as a lead-in,...
♦ The freshman hits Found and The Irrational are both moving to new nights for Season 2 — Thursday and Tuesday, respectively. “With [Law & Order: Organized Crime] moving to Peacock, that allows us to use Svu, which is obviously one of the strongest dramas on television, to lead into Found,” Jeff Bader, president of program planning strategy for NBCUniversal Entertainment, explained to TVLine, whereas The Irrational once again has The Voice as a lead-in,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Metaphysical podcast The Outer Limits of Inner Truth recently commemorated its ten-year anniversary. Publishing 435 episodes with over two million downloads, the program has encompassed freedom, deep introspection, self discovery, and spiritual growth.
Originally billed as “The world’s only show about Forensic Soul Analysis,” Olit would feature a guest and afterwards three spiritual teachers would each offer their analysis on the individual’s past lives, soul purpose, and astrological chart.
"The purpose of Olit has always been to explore consciousness and present information that a person can use to enhance the quality of their life. Insatiable curiosity and introspection have been the two driving concepts behind the program. We haven't been afraid to seek truth or aggressively challenge long-held collective beliefs." said Ryan McCormick, host of the Outer Limits of Inner Truth.
Within a few short months of its premiere , Olit was picked up for national syndication on Starcom Radio...
Originally billed as “The world’s only show about Forensic Soul Analysis,” Olit would feature a guest and afterwards three spiritual teachers would each offer their analysis on the individual’s past lives, soul purpose, and astrological chart.
"The purpose of Olit has always been to explore consciousness and present information that a person can use to enhance the quality of their life. Insatiable curiosity and introspection have been the two driving concepts behind the program. We haven't been afraid to seek truth or aggressively challenge long-held collective beliefs." said Ryan McCormick, host of the Outer Limits of Inner Truth.
Within a few short months of its premiere , Olit was picked up for national syndication on Starcom Radio...
- 4/10/2024
- Podnews.net
Ladies and gentlemen, it appears Aaron Rodgers, who’s taken a grand total of four snaps as quarterback of the New York Jets, has lost his mind.
This week, during his weekly appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show (or if a WWE wrestler on bath salts hosted a sports program), he sorta accused Jimmy Kimmel of associating with Jeffrey Epstein — exacting revenge against Kimmel for ragging on Rodgers and his public Covid vaccine skepticism in his late-night monologues. This latest outburst follows a string of recent kooky behavior,...
This week, during his weekly appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show (or if a WWE wrestler on bath salts hosted a sports program), he sorta accused Jimmy Kimmel of associating with Jeffrey Epstein — exacting revenge against Kimmel for ragging on Rodgers and his public Covid vaccine skepticism in his late-night monologues. This latest outburst follows a string of recent kooky behavior,...
- 1/13/2024
- by Corbin Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Ofcom has found Gb News to be in breach of due impartiality rules in a landmark ruling pertaining to an episode of Esther McVey and Phillip Davies’ show.
The regulator’s investigation concluded that an episode of Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil, which aired on Gb News on March 11, failed to “represent and give due weight to an appropriately wide range of significant views on a matter of major political controversy and current public policy.”
The right-leaning news network therefore breached rules 5.11 and 5.12 of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code on impartiality, following 45 complaints.
This is the third time Gb News has breached Ofcom’s rules but the first regarding the controversial move to have politicians present topical shows and interview other politicians. There are six more investigations of this ilk currently open.
In the show found in breach, McVey and Davies, members of the ruling Conservative Party, interviewed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt...
The regulator’s investigation concluded that an episode of Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil, which aired on Gb News on March 11, failed to “represent and give due weight to an appropriately wide range of significant views on a matter of major political controversy and current public policy.”
The right-leaning news network therefore breached rules 5.11 and 5.12 of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code on impartiality, following 45 complaints.
This is the third time Gb News has breached Ofcom’s rules but the first regarding the controversial move to have politicians present topical shows and interview other politicians. There are six more investigations of this ilk currently open.
In the show found in breach, McVey and Davies, members of the ruling Conservative Party, interviewed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt...
- 9/18/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Naomi Wolf’s claims about the Covid-19 vaccine on U.K. network Gb News have resulted in the controversial TV channel being hauled into a meeting with British media regulator Ofcom.
Wolf, best known for her feminist book “The Beauty Myth,” made the comments on Gb News’s “Mark Steyn” show, hosted by anchor Mark Steyn, in Oct. 2022. During a segment on the show discussing the vaccine, Wolf compared doctors who assisted the vaccine rollout as being akin to those in “pre-Nazi Germany” and said the rollout itself had resulted in “mass murder.”
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a journalist,” she said at the beginning of the segment, before adding later: “I believe [the mRNA vaccines] are bio-weapons because they are literally sterilizing people, they are poisoning breast milk.”
Wolf was also introduced in the show as “Dr. Naomi Wolf.” She is a doctor of philosophy thanks to a thesis...
Wolf, best known for her feminist book “The Beauty Myth,” made the comments on Gb News’s “Mark Steyn” show, hosted by anchor Mark Steyn, in Oct. 2022. During a segment on the show discussing the vaccine, Wolf compared doctors who assisted the vaccine rollout as being akin to those in “pre-Nazi Germany” and said the rollout itself had resulted in “mass murder.”
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a journalist,” she said at the beginning of the segment, before adding later: “I believe [the mRNA vaccines] are bio-weapons because they are literally sterilizing people, they are poisoning breast milk.”
Wolf was also introduced in the show as “Dr. Naomi Wolf.” She is a doctor of philosophy thanks to a thesis...
- 5/9/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Gb News has been summoned for a meeting with Ofcom after being found in breach of its Broadcasting Code for the second time in the space of two months, both pertaining to Covid-19 vaccine comments on Mark Steyn’s former show. The right-leaning news network has, however, escaped a fine.
Ofcom has this morning sanctioned the right-leaning UK news network for an episode last October during which a guest, Dr Naomi Wolf, said the Covid-19 vaccine rollout amounted to “mass murder” and was comparable to the actions of “doctors in pre-Nazi Germany.”
Following more than 400 complaints to the regulator, Ofcom found Gb News to be in breach of the section of its code that states: “Generally accepted standards must be applied to the contents of television and radio services…so as to provide adequate protection for members of the public from the inclusion in such services of harmful and/or offensive material.
Ofcom has this morning sanctioned the right-leaning UK news network for an episode last October during which a guest, Dr Naomi Wolf, said the Covid-19 vaccine rollout amounted to “mass murder” and was comparable to the actions of “doctors in pre-Nazi Germany.”
Following more than 400 complaints to the regulator, Ofcom found Gb News to be in breach of the section of its code that states: “Generally accepted standards must be applied to the contents of television and radio services…so as to provide adequate protection for members of the public from the inclusion in such services of harmful and/or offensive material.
- 5/9/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ofcom has found Gb News to be in breach of its code over Covid-19 vaccine comments, in the first of two rulings investigating the Mark Steyn Show and the first time it has fallen foul of the regulator’s code.
In an episode last April, host Steyn quoted official data from the UK Health Security Agency (Ukhsa) to say that the vaccines caused higher infection, hospitalization and death rates, but four viewers complained that these comments were “dangerous” and drew “fatally flawed conclusions.”
Steyn said in the program that Ukhsa data on those people that had, and those that had not, received a third Covid-19 vaccination dose could be compared because the two groups included approximately the same numbers of people.
Ofcom, however, said in today’s ruling he had failed to take into account other factors such as the significant differences in age or health of the people in the two groups.
In an episode last April, host Steyn quoted official data from the UK Health Security Agency (Ukhsa) to say that the vaccines caused higher infection, hospitalization and death rates, but four viewers complained that these comments were “dangerous” and drew “fatally flawed conclusions.”
Steyn said in the program that Ukhsa data on those people that had, and those that had not, received a third Covid-19 vaccination dose could be compared because the two groups included approximately the same numbers of people.
Ofcom, however, said in today’s ruling he had failed to take into account other factors such as the significant differences in age or health of the people in the two groups.
- 3/6/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Emily Ratajkowski will not apologize for her sexy Instagram snaps. The 25-year-old model covers InStyle‘s March issue, in which she talks about her colorful upbringing and her right to express her sexuality. Ratajkowski, who shares that her mother — an English professor — gave her a copy of Naomi Wolf’s Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for […]...
- 2/3/2017
- by Jordan Appugliesi
- ET Canada
Emily Ratajkowski will not apologize for her sexy Instagram snaps.
The 25-year-old model covers InStyle's March issue, in which she talks about her colorful upbringing and her right to express her sexuality. Ratajkowski, who shares that her mother -- an English professor -- gave her a copy of Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood when she was 12, fights against the notion that sexually expressive women are seen as attention-seeking.
"The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?'" Ratajkowski says. "Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it -- it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine too."
Watch: Emily Ratajkowski Suffers Wardrobe Malfunction at Golden Globes After-Party
She also stresses that it's her choice how to express her sexuality. The Gone Girl actress publicly slammed photographer Jonathan Leder in November...
The 25-year-old model covers InStyle's March issue, in which she talks about her colorful upbringing and her right to express her sexuality. Ratajkowski, who shares that her mother -- an English professor -- gave her a copy of Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood when she was 12, fights against the notion that sexually expressive women are seen as attention-seeking.
"The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?'" Ratajkowski says. "Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it -- it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine too."
Watch: Emily Ratajkowski Suffers Wardrobe Malfunction at Golden Globes After-Party
She also stresses that it's her choice how to express her sexuality. The Gone Girl actress publicly slammed photographer Jonathan Leder in November...
- 2/3/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Emily Ratajkowski views social media websites as pro-feminist because they enable women to control their own image.
The star's striking looks and enviable figure has garnered her acclaim in the fashion world, earning Emily modelling gigs for Marc Jacobs and Cr Fashion Book, before making the leap into Hollywood, starring alongside Ben Affleck in hit movie Gone Girl and 2015 drama We Are Your Friends.
Following struggles to come to terms with her own sexuality, and instances of body shaming, Emily has become a passionate supporter of women's right to portray their body in the way they see fit. And the 25-year-old insists that social media websites such as Instagram can be used as empowering tools because they allow women to portray or reclaim their image by their own design.
"It's cool to have a format where you can be so direct with an audience," Emily told feminist author Naomi Wolf...
The star's striking looks and enviable figure has garnered her acclaim in the fashion world, earning Emily modelling gigs for Marc Jacobs and Cr Fashion Book, before making the leap into Hollywood, starring alongside Ben Affleck in hit movie Gone Girl and 2015 drama We Are Your Friends.
Following struggles to come to terms with her own sexuality, and instances of body shaming, Emily has become a passionate supporter of women's right to portray their body in the way they see fit. And the 25-year-old insists that social media websites such as Instagram can be used as empowering tools because they allow women to portray or reclaim their image by their own design.
"It's cool to have a format where you can be so direct with an audience," Emily told feminist author Naomi Wolf...
- 7/7/2016
- GossipCenter
Emily Ratajkowski views social media websites as pro-feminist because they enable women to control their own image.
The star's striking looks and enviable figure has garnered her acclaim in the fashion world, earning Emily modelling gigs for Marc Jacobs and Cr Fashion Book, before making the leap into Hollywood, starring alongside Ben Affleck in hit movie Gone Girl and 2015 drama We Are Your Friends.
Following struggles to come to terms with her own sexuality, and instances of body shaming, Emily has become a passionate supporter of women's right to portray their body in the way they see fit. And the 25-year-old insists that social media websites such as Instagram can be used as empowering tools because they allow women to portray or reclaim their image by their own design.
"It's cool to have a format where you can be so direct with an audience," Emily told feminist author Naomi Wolf...
The star's striking looks and enviable figure has garnered her acclaim in the fashion world, earning Emily modelling gigs for Marc Jacobs and Cr Fashion Book, before making the leap into Hollywood, starring alongside Ben Affleck in hit movie Gone Girl and 2015 drama We Are Your Friends.
Following struggles to come to terms with her own sexuality, and instances of body shaming, Emily has become a passionate supporter of women's right to portray their body in the way they see fit. And the 25-year-old insists that social media websites such as Instagram can be used as empowering tools because they allow women to portray or reclaim their image by their own design.
"It's cool to have a format where you can be so direct with an audience," Emily told feminist author Naomi Wolf...
- 7/7/2016
- GossipCenter
Emily Ratajkowski isn't afraid to show a little skin. The actress, 25, stripped down for Harper's Bazaar's August issue, on newsstands July 19. "The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body," she told famous feminist Naomi Wolf, who interviewed Ratajkowski for the magazine. "It has to include all ideals, all bodies." Ratajkowski - who has posted her fair share of nude photos on her social media accounts - came to the defense of Kim Kardashian's infamous nude selfie once again. "The whole idea is that when Kim takes a nude selfie, she's just seeking attention. That's not the issue,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Gabrielle Olya, @GabyOlya
- PEOPLE.com
Emily Ratajkowski isn't afraid to show a little skin. The actress, 25, stripped down for Harper's Bazaar's August issue, on newsstands July 19. "The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body," she told famous feminist Naomi Wolf, who interviewed Ratajkowski for the magazine. "It has to include all ideals, all bodies." Ratajkowski - who has posted her fair share of nude photos on her social media accounts - came to the defense of Kim Kardashian's infamous nude selfie once again. "The whole idea is that when Kim takes a nude selfie, she's just seeking attention. That's not the issue,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Gabrielle Olya, @GabyOlya
- PEOPLE.com
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. If you are in a romantic relationship, this is either a pleasure or a chore. Some of us like the flowers and the candy, the sexy underwear and the romantic dinner. Some of us resent the commercial pressure to act like the leads in a movie instead of one’s authentic self. Whatever your feelings, you are most likely expecting the evening to end with sex. Beautiful, romantic sex… maybe with candlelight.
Not me. Nope. Valentines Day makes me think about comic books.
Specifically, the way love and/or sex has been portrayed in comics. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just as messed up as every other popular medium, except maybe worse.
As a woman in modern America, I’ve been socialized to believe that I must meet certain physical standards to be worthy of attention and love (see The Beauty Myth...
Not me. Nope. Valentines Day makes me think about comic books.
Specifically, the way love and/or sex has been portrayed in comics. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just as messed up as every other popular medium, except maybe worse.
As a woman in modern America, I’ve been socialized to believe that I must meet certain physical standards to be worthy of attention and love (see The Beauty Myth...
- 2/13/2015
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
In the week after Gone Girl opened at the top of the box office with a robust $37 million, Naomi Wolf, the author of The Beauty Myth and onetime political advisor most famous for questioning Al Gore’s alpha-maleness, posted a series of, to say the least, questionable conspiratorial rantings on Facebook. The Isis beheading videos, she suggested, were fakes; the bereft parents of the victims, featured so often on the news, were actors, and by the way, Obama was sending American troops to Africa to bring back Ebola as a pretense to institute martial law. Wolf’s theories were disarmingly similar, in form if not in content, to the kind of “false flag” narratives perpetrated by commentators like the radio host Alex Jones and, once upon a time, Glenn Beck: tales of Fema camps, black helicopters, and shadow governments. In fact, Wolf’s suggestions follow the rough outline of several persistent and,...
- 10/15/2014
- by Adam Sternbergh
- Vulture
Katie Couric shares a laugh at the Fed Up MoMA premiere with fellow Us journalist Savannah Guthrie, who is expecting: "I'm pregnant now, and that is a huge perspective changer in terms of what you put in your body" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze At the Museum of Modern Art, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Claire Danes, Liv Tyler, Savannah Guthrie, Mariska Hargitay, Matt Lauer, Debra Messing and Martha Stewart hosted the New York premiere screening of Stephanie Soechtig's vital documentary Fed Up. The RADiUS – TWC’s film, co-executive produced by Academy Award winner Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth) with narrator Katie Couric, could change the way you eat - and most likely, it should.
Among those who joined the hosts to show their support were Theory designer Olivier Theyskens, Shep Gordon, Jodi Applegate, Adrian Grenier, Jon Cryer, Chuck Scarborough, Bridget Moynahan, Naomi Wolf, Dr Nicole Avena, Maggie Valentine and her family.
Among those who joined the hosts to show their support were Theory designer Olivier Theyskens, Shep Gordon, Jodi Applegate, Adrian Grenier, Jon Cryer, Chuck Scarborough, Bridget Moynahan, Naomi Wolf, Dr Nicole Avena, Maggie Valentine and her family.
- 5/8/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Our story resumes: Finding a love-like feeling for Jerôme (Shia Labeouf), "restful domestic comfort" has, at the outset of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Volume II, robbed the young Joe (Stacy Martin) of her orgasm. Naomi Wolf documented a similar problem in her 2012 book Vagina; the similarities between Joe and Naomi Wolf end there. For Joe, the loss appears less tied to pleasure than to identity, and so rather than seeing a pelvic nerve man and scheduling back surgery, Joe eventually resorts to K (Jamie Bell), an elfin bloke peddling his masochistic services out of a clinically furnished office. "What do you get out of it?" the adult Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) asks before her first walloping. "That's my business," K replies darkly. "Don't ask again."
But...
But...
- 4/2/2014
- Village Voice
Errol Morris on The Unknown Known: "It could be like Jabberwocky out of Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze "It's a failure of imagination. It's important to have priorities," says former Us Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and we see his memo on strategic thought from September 30, 2001 on the screen in Errol Morris's The Unknown Known.
In New York the snowflakes were falling as Peggy Siegal hosted a perfect evening with Tom Brokaw and Errol Morris in conversation at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle followed by dinner at Circo. Among those walking the red carpet before The Unknown Known were Naomi Wolf, Candice Bergen, David Chase, Jamie Colby and 60 Minutes men Morley Safer and Bob Simon.
I had a quick chat with Errol Morris and Naomi Wolf before the screening.
Anne-Katrin Titze: There seems to be some confusion what the Unknown Known really is.
In New York the snowflakes were falling as Peggy Siegal hosted a perfect evening with Tom Brokaw and Errol Morris in conversation at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle followed by dinner at Circo. Among those walking the red carpet before The Unknown Known were Naomi Wolf, Candice Bergen, David Chase, Jamie Colby and 60 Minutes men Morley Safer and Bob Simon.
I had a quick chat with Errol Morris and Naomi Wolf before the screening.
Anne-Katrin Titze: There seems to be some confusion what the Unknown Known really is.
- 3/27/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New York, Oct er 8: Wearing high heels can negatively affect a woman's orgasm, a study has revealed.
Dr. Eden Fromberg and Naomi Wolf's recent book, 'Vagina: A New Biography' has revealed that women can get pregnant five to eight days after having sex and even sitting in chairs can arouse women, but sitting for a long span on time can also dampen their orgasms, Time Magazine reported.
The book also suggests that orgasms can make women more creative and being well hydrated enhances orgasms.
Other shocking facts about sex revealed that birth control pills dampen the libido and nerve endings are distributed differently in every woman's vagina.
The research also broke the common myth that all women can't achieve.
Dr. Eden Fromberg and Naomi Wolf's recent book, 'Vagina: A New Biography' has revealed that women can get pregnant five to eight days after having sex and even sitting in chairs can arouse women, but sitting for a long span on time can also dampen their orgasms, Time Magazine reported.
The book also suggests that orgasms can make women more creative and being well hydrated enhances orgasms.
Other shocking facts about sex revealed that birth control pills dampen the libido and nerve endings are distributed differently in every woman's vagina.
The research also broke the common myth that all women can't achieve.
- 10/8/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
"We are the 99 percent," chant the Occupy protesters as they set up a self-sufficient community in Zuccotti—renamed Liberty—Park to demand an answer to America's wildly unequal distribution. 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, a documentary made by over 100 filmmakers, gives us a look behind the barricades at these men and women who hoped to start a revolution on September 17, 2011. Though it largely sides with the protesters, the film does not find them faultless. For example, author Naomi Wolf criticizes the movement—after police forcibly evicted the protesters from the park—for being satisfied with "changing the discourse." It's a valid concern: After the outcry, what next? What is the solution? It's easy to root for separating money f...
- 9/11/2013
- Village Voice
On prosmiscuity, porn, monogamy ... this study of female sexuality overturns some tenacious assumptions
If you can get past the studied jauntiness and occasionally histrionic style, Daniel Bergner's What Do Women Want? says some useful things about female sexuality. As with other recent books on the subject – notably Naomi Wolf's polemic, Vagina – it knits together anecdote, case study and scientific discovery to overturn some tenacious assumptions: that, unlike men, women aren't hardwired for promiscuity; that security and emotional connection are the most important factors in women's sexual transactions; that, above all, sexuality in women is constitutionally milder than in men, rather than the result of centuries-old social conditioning. Or, as Bergner puts it: "That women's desire – its inherent range and innate power – is an underestimated and constrained force, even in our times, when all can seem so sexually inundated, so far beyond restriction."
This line of argument was perhaps shockingly countercultural in the 1990s.
If you can get past the studied jauntiness and occasionally histrionic style, Daniel Bergner's What Do Women Want? says some useful things about female sexuality. As with other recent books on the subject – notably Naomi Wolf's polemic, Vagina – it knits together anecdote, case study and scientific discovery to overturn some tenacious assumptions: that, unlike men, women aren't hardwired for promiscuity; that security and emotional connection are the most important factors in women's sexual transactions; that, above all, sexuality in women is constitutionally milder than in men, rather than the result of centuries-old social conditioning. Or, as Bergner puts it: "That women's desire – its inherent range and innate power – is an underestimated and constrained force, even in our times, when all can seem so sexually inundated, so far beyond restriction."
This line of argument was perhaps shockingly countercultural in the 1990s.
- 7/11/2013
- by Emma Brockes, Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
Directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell
USA, 2012
In 2009, filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell presented Until the Light Takes Us, an enlightening – excuse the pun – exploration of Norway’s black metal movement, a scene that picked up steam in the 90s and became inundated with controversy surrounding church burnings, murders and satanic posturing. The filmmakers brushed aside the media outcry that had tarnished an initially forthright youth rebellion, opening up the process of how these young, isolated individuals had pushed back against the crushing cultural hegemony of globalisation through the power of their music, and had the odds increasingly stacked against them by the many who endeavoured to draw a line under the movement and pervert its meaning, ironically adding fuel to the fire in sustaining the vehemently opposed satanic elements. The film achieved what all good documentaries should, challenging preconceptions and...
Directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell
USA, 2012
In 2009, filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell presented Until the Light Takes Us, an enlightening – excuse the pun – exploration of Norway’s black metal movement, a scene that picked up steam in the 90s and became inundated with controversy surrounding church burnings, murders and satanic posturing. The filmmakers brushed aside the media outcry that had tarnished an initially forthright youth rebellion, opening up the process of how these young, isolated individuals had pushed back against the crushing cultural hegemony of globalisation through the power of their music, and had the odds increasingly stacked against them by the many who endeavoured to draw a line under the movement and pervert its meaning, ironically adding fuel to the fire in sustaining the vehemently opposed satanic elements. The film achieved what all good documentaries should, challenging preconceptions and...
- 6/27/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
Zero Dark Thirty; Lincoln; A Good Day to Die Hard; For Ellen
From the moment columnist Naomi Wolf compared Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman to win the Academy award for best director) to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl (no, really), it was clear that Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Universal, 15) was never going to get a sensible hearing. Claims that this gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden somehow justified or endorsed torture were fuelled by stories of CIA co-operation, stories that the intelligence agency promptly debunked in an attempt to distance itself from harrowing scenes of water-boarding, humiliation and worse.
Yet, as Bigelow and writer Mark Boal point out, if you watch the film (rather than read the hysterical press), you'll find no evidence that "harsh tactics" produce anything other than rotten results. Indeed, the great irony of Zdt's complex narrative is that the CIA is too busy putting the...
From the moment columnist Naomi Wolf compared Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman to win the Academy award for best director) to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl (no, really), it was clear that Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Universal, 15) was never going to get a sensible hearing. Claims that this gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden somehow justified or endorsed torture were fuelled by stories of CIA co-operation, stories that the intelligence agency promptly debunked in an attempt to distance itself from harrowing scenes of water-boarding, humiliation and worse.
Yet, as Bigelow and writer Mark Boal point out, if you watch the film (rather than read the hysterical press), you'll find no evidence that "harsh tactics" produce anything other than rotten results. Indeed, the great irony of Zdt's complex narrative is that the CIA is too busy putting the...
- 6/8/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
It's ironic given Madeleine Albright's oft-quoted dictum: 'There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women'
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
The original quote came from Madeleine Albright in 2006, at a Wnba luncheon called Celebrating Inspiration, since then it has taken on a life of its own.
Misquoted and misattributed, but never delivered with less than full feeling, it is the go-to putdown for any woman publically besieged by another woman; particularly, it seems, women vaguely on the conservative side, who get extra mileage, perhaps, from knowing how much Albright will be vexed by their use of it. ("There's a place in hell," said Sarah Palin, on the stump in 2008 and with characteristic ball-park accuracy, "reserved for women who don't support other women.")
Albright's point was a valid one: female solidarity is not a question...
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
The original quote came from Madeleine Albright in 2006, at a Wnba luncheon called Celebrating Inspiration, since then it has taken on a life of its own.
Misquoted and misattributed, but never delivered with less than full feeling, it is the go-to putdown for any woman publically besieged by another woman; particularly, it seems, women vaguely on the conservative side, who get extra mileage, perhaps, from knowing how much Albright will be vexed by their use of it. ("There's a place in hell," said Sarah Palin, on the stump in 2008 and with characteristic ball-park accuracy, "reserved for women who don't support other women.")
Albright's point was a valid one: female solidarity is not a question...
- 4/4/2013
- by Emma Brockes
- The Guardian - Film News
Investigation into whether Zero Dark Thirty film-makers were granted access to classified CIA material is closed
Just a day after Zero Dark Thirty foundered at the Oscars, taking just a single technical prize, the high-profile Us senate investigation that may have helped scupper the drama's awards season has been quietly dropped.
With Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal having previously won best film in 2010 for The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty – about the hunt for Osama bin Laden – was one of the early frontrunners for this year's Oscars and took many of the critics' prizes that preface the bigger awards ceremonies. But then disquiet grew over the film's depiction of the CIA's alleged use of torture in the hunt for the leader of al-Qaida.
In January the Us Senate intelligence committee launched an investigation into whether Bigelow and Boal were granted "inappropriate access" to classified CIA material after the committee's Democratic...
Just a day after Zero Dark Thirty foundered at the Oscars, taking just a single technical prize, the high-profile Us senate investigation that may have helped scupper the drama's awards season has been quietly dropped.
With Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal having previously won best film in 2010 for The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty – about the hunt for Osama bin Laden – was one of the early frontrunners for this year's Oscars and took many of the critics' prizes that preface the bigger awards ceremonies. But then disquiet grew over the film's depiction of the CIA's alleged use of torture in the hunt for the leader of al-Qaida.
In January the Us Senate intelligence committee launched an investigation into whether Bigelow and Boal were granted "inappropriate access" to classified CIA material after the committee's Democratic...
- 2/26/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites, the team behind 99 Percent: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, initially attempted to adopt a filmmaking model as decentralized as the Occupy movement itself. However, the pair soon discovered that the consensus decision process is as complicated for directing films as it is for orienting political movements.
"It just didn't work. We couldn't get anything done," Ewell tells Rolling Stone. "At least with the Occupiers, [they] were in one physical space together. We didn't even have that; we had an email list with hundreds of emails.
"It just didn't work. We couldn't get anything done," Ewell tells Rolling Stone. "At least with the Occupiers, [they] were in one physical space together. We didn't even have that; we had an email list with hundreds of emails.
- 1/26/2013
- Rollingstone.com
“Everybody breaks, bro” croaks Jason Clarke’s shaggy faced CIA interrogator Dan – “it’s biology.”
The statement is directed to Ammar, a detainee with strong links with Saudi terrorists and 9/11. Strung up by his wrists, the prisoner – already beaten and subjected to a bout of waterboarding – perseveres until Dan, alongside newly transferred Maya (Jessica Chastain) tricks him in to believing that eventually, after keeping him awake for 96 hours straight, he divulged the information they needed. As Ammar is suffering from short-term memory loss throughout the interrogation techniques used against him, it works.
This, it seems, is the main discussion point of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated follow-up to her Academy Award winning The Hurt Locker. Interestingly, it’s not the violent acts and techniques depicted in these scenes that are making the headlines, but the result of them. That is, with the film, within the arc of its narrative,...
The statement is directed to Ammar, a detainee with strong links with Saudi terrorists and 9/11. Strung up by his wrists, the prisoner – already beaten and subjected to a bout of waterboarding – perseveres until Dan, alongside newly transferred Maya (Jessica Chastain) tricks him in to believing that eventually, after keeping him awake for 96 hours straight, he divulged the information they needed. As Ammar is suffering from short-term memory loss throughout the interrogation techniques used against him, it works.
This, it seems, is the main discussion point of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated follow-up to her Academy Award winning The Hurt Locker. Interestingly, it’s not the violent acts and techniques depicted in these scenes that are making the headlines, but the result of them. That is, with the film, within the arc of its narrative,...
- 1/14/2013
- by Jordan McGrath
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Well-timed parallels to Obama's election campaign could help bring Steven Spielberg the same success as Schindler's List
There's no mistaking it: the film industry awards season has moved into high gear this week. Wednesday and Thursday saw, in rapid succession, the announcement of nominations for the Baftas and the Oscars, and Sunday sees actual statuettes being dished out in the first major awards ceremony: the Golden Globes. With prizes having been handed out since well before Christmas by organisations large and small – from the Boston Society of Film Critics to the People's Choice awards – the buzz of background noise has been getting ever louder: but all eyes are focused on the big payoff, the Academy Award ceremony in the last week of February.
The Oscars have retained their pre-eminent status through simple cause-and-effect: in recent years, nominated films have added an average of $20m to their box office in the...
There's no mistaking it: the film industry awards season has moved into high gear this week. Wednesday and Thursday saw, in rapid succession, the announcement of nominations for the Baftas and the Oscars, and Sunday sees actual statuettes being dished out in the first major awards ceremony: the Golden Globes. With prizes having been handed out since well before Christmas by organisations large and small – from the Boston Society of Film Critics to the People's Choice awards – the buzz of background noise has been getting ever louder: but all eyes are focused on the big payoff, the Academy Award ceremony in the last week of February.
The Oscars have retained their pre-eminent status through simple cause-and-effect: in recent years, nominated films have added an average of $20m to their box office in the...
- 1/12/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Hooded protesters target Washington DC premiere of Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-tipped film about hunt for Osama bin Laden
Anti-torture campaigners wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods staged a high-profile protest outside the Washington DC premiere of controversial Oscar-tipped film Zero Dark Thirty last night.
Holding placards stating "torture is wrong" and branding Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden a "Pentagon-sanctioned movie" the protestors made a cacophony of noise outside the Newseum centre in central Washington as journalists, politicians and members of Us president Barack Obama's administration filed into the auditorium. There was also a separate protest organised by so-called "Truthers," who believe the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the Us government.
Zero Dark Thirty's status as one of the frontrunners for next month's Oscars has been overshadowed by criticism from commentators and politicians over its depiction of the use of torture...
Anti-torture campaigners wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods staged a high-profile protest outside the Washington DC premiere of controversial Oscar-tipped film Zero Dark Thirty last night.
Holding placards stating "torture is wrong" and branding Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden a "Pentagon-sanctioned movie" the protestors made a cacophony of noise outside the Newseum centre in central Washington as journalists, politicians and members of Us president Barack Obama's administration filed into the auditorium. There was also a separate protest organised by so-called "Truthers," who believe the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the Us government.
Zero Dark Thirty's status as one of the frontrunners for next month's Oscars has been overshadowed by criticism from commentators and politicians over its depiction of the use of torture...
- 1/9/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Depicting torture is not same as endorsing it, say film-makers as they accept prizes at New York Film Critics Circle award
The makers of Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar-tipped film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, have once again poured scorn on suggestions that they endorsed torture by including scenes of waterboarding and sexual humiliation in the drama.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who won Oscars three years ago for their highly acclaimed Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, made the comments as they took to the stage to accept prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle last night. The release of their new film has drawn a stream of criticism from media commentators and high-profile politicians over its depiction of the CIA's alleged use of torture to find and kill the head of al-Qaida, but both film-makers made it clear they stood by their work.
The makers of Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar-tipped film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, have once again poured scorn on suggestions that they endorsed torture by including scenes of waterboarding and sexual humiliation in the drama.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who won Oscars three years ago for their highly acclaimed Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, made the comments as they took to the stage to accept prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle last night. The release of their new film has drawn a stream of criticism from media commentators and high-profile politicians over its depiction of the CIA's alleged use of torture to find and kill the head of al-Qaida, but both film-makers made it clear they stood by their work.
- 1/8/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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Sometimes the complexity of The Good Wife makes my head hurt. As does life. Fortunately, I can rewind The Good Wife and try to figure out all the bamboozling parts at least a little better.
Let’s start from the beginning. We’re back in the parking lot seeing Cary getting beat up again, in case we forgot, which is a slightly jolting way to kick things off. Yet the next time we see Cary in person, he has one slightly bruised eye. That’s it. I mean, I assume his torso is pretty wrecked, but all that pounding and he still looks pretty much perfect? Uh, Ok. Also, instead of someone rushing to his side at a hospital, or him going to Kalinda to say, “Hey, this is effed,” or some other satisfying sequence of events, we see him in this first appearance chatting with Horrible Husband.
Sometimes the complexity of The Good Wife makes my head hurt. As does life. Fortunately, I can rewind The Good Wife and try to figure out all the bamboozling parts at least a little better.
Let’s start from the beginning. We’re back in the parking lot seeing Cary getting beat up again, in case we forgot, which is a slightly jolting way to kick things off. Yet the next time we see Cary in person, he has one slightly bruised eye. That’s it. I mean, I assume his torso is pretty wrecked, but all that pounding and he still looks pretty much perfect? Uh, Ok. Also, instead of someone rushing to his side at a hospital, or him going to Kalinda to say, “Hey, this is effed,” or some other satisfying sequence of events, we see him in this first appearance chatting with Horrible Husband.
- 11/26/2012
- by daffodilly
- AfterEllen.com
Currently the theatrical toast of London for her Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic, Sheridan Smith is the best thing in two new British films this week. In the gynaecological oddity Hysteria she plays a cheeky former prostitute employed by Victorian surgeons to test the prototype of a vibrator to provide orgasms for troubled middle-class housewives. After this initial success, a commercial version provides satisfaction for Queen Victoria. Can you imagine a prequel to Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A New Biography with a screenplay by Richard Gordon, author of Doctor in the House? No, nor can I.
In the other and far better film Smith plays a tough single woman, one of the last remaining occupants on the top floor of a run-down tower block. One weekend they find themselves the target of an unseen marksman wielding an automatic rifle equipped with telescopic lens and silencer. Who is the killer?...
In the other and far better film Smith plays a tough single woman, one of the last remaining occupants on the top floor of a run-down tower block. One weekend they find themselves the target of an unseen marksman wielding an automatic rifle equipped with telescopic lens and silencer. Who is the killer?...
- 9/22/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Tune in alert for a week long run on Current TV: .Joy Behar: Say Anything!. Joy is inviting viewers to join .The She Party." Her lineup of guests include some of the most powerful, provocative, and political women in entertainment and media. Guests like Susan Sarandon, Naomi Wolf to Cyndi Lauper and more will be tackling some of the hottest topics of the moment, from a decidedly female perspective. The full lineup is below. .Joy Behar: Say Anything!. airs Monday through Thursday at 6pm Et and 9pm Et on Current TV. Monday, September 17 . Author Naomi Wolf and novelist and radio host Farai Chideya Tuesday, September 18. Actress and activist Susan Sarandon, Musician and author Cyndi Lauper...
- 9/17/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Melbourne, September 7: Naomi Wolf, the author of 'Vagina" A New Biography', has claimed that the "badness" women are attracted to isn't literal badness but the sexual appeal of "otherness, wilderness and the dimensions of the unknown" in her new book.
According to Wolf, it is also about the role of the autonomic nervous system.
Wolf says women are aroused by this "good stress" "hen they are in control of the fantasy or act.
"Some people have a lower baseline autonomic nervous system.
According to Wolf, it is also about the role of the autonomic nervous system.
Wolf says women are aroused by this "good stress" "hen they are in control of the fantasy or act.
"Some people have a lower baseline autonomic nervous system.
- 9/7/2012
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
London - Prominent Hollywood figures are among those who signed a letter in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's request for political asylum in Ecuador. The petition, which a group called Just Foreign Policy delivered to the country's embassy here where Assange sought refuge last week, was signed by Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Bill Maher and author Naomi Wolf, among others, it said. Just Foreign Policy said it delivered the letter with more than four thousand signatures from Americans urging Ecuardo's president Rafael Correa to approve Assange's asylum request. Assange, who is Australian, walked into the Ecuadorian embassy last
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- 6/26/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky among signatories to letter delivered to Ecuador's embassy in London
A letter signed by leading Us figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.
Among those who signed the letter were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
Other signatories included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former Us military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.
Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than four thousand Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange's request for asylum.
The Australian national arrived at Ecuador's embassy last week in the latest dramatic twist...
A letter signed by leading Us figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.
Among those who signed the letter were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
Other signatories included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former Us military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.
Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than four thousand Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange's request for asylum.
The Australian national arrived at Ecuador's embassy last week in the latest dramatic twist...
- 6/26/2012
- by Ben Quinn
- The Guardian - Film News
Despite the title of her next single -- "Wide Awake" -- Katy Perry really wants some rest.
Speaking at the Narm Music Awards, where she was named Artist Of The Year, Perry revealed that she was looking forward to taking a much-needed vacation.
"I swear, after this song, I'm taking a f---ing vacation," said Perry, who certainly has a knack for turning out No. 1 singles.
Perry scored five No. 1s off her 2010 album "Teenage Dream" -- "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)." The pop singer even tied Michael Jackson's record for most No. 1 singles off a single album. (Jackson scored five No. 1s off 1987's Bad.)
Unfortunately for Perry, her sixth single "The One That Got Away" was aptly named; it was the only single not to reach No. 1.
"Wide Awake," her second single off the Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection special edition album,...
Speaking at the Narm Music Awards, where she was named Artist Of The Year, Perry revealed that she was looking forward to taking a much-needed vacation.
"I swear, after this song, I'm taking a f---ing vacation," said Perry, who certainly has a knack for turning out No. 1 singles.
Perry scored five No. 1s off her 2010 album "Teenage Dream" -- "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework," "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)." The pop singer even tied Michael Jackson's record for most No. 1 singles off a single album. (Jackson scored five No. 1s off 1987's Bad.)
Unfortunately for Perry, her sixth single "The One That Got Away" was aptly named; it was the only single not to reach No. 1.
"Wide Awake," her second single off the Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection special edition album,...
- 5/14/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? If so, you'll love the trailer for Katy Perry's "Part Of Me," the 3D concert film-cum-documentary that the pop songstress will release in theaters this summer.
"The atmosphere I grew up in was 100-percent Christian," Perry says at the beginning of the trailer, before a montage of clips and the familiar tones of "Firework" kick things into high gear.
Perry's parents are famously devout Christians, and the singer signed her first record deal with the Christian music label Red Hill when she was just 15 years old.
Of course, "Part Of Me" will not just chronicle Perry's meteoric rise from those humble beginnings; her personal life will reportedly get explored as well. Perry divorced actor Russell Brand late last year after less than two years of marriage.
At the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, Perry revealed the title of "Part of...
"The atmosphere I grew up in was 100-percent Christian," Perry says at the beginning of the trailer, before a montage of clips and the familiar tones of "Firework" kick things into high gear.
Perry's parents are famously devout Christians, and the singer signed her first record deal with the Christian music label Red Hill when she was just 15 years old.
Of course, "Part Of Me" will not just chronicle Perry's meteoric rise from those humble beginnings; her personal life will reportedly get explored as well. Perry divorced actor Russell Brand late last year after less than two years of marriage.
At the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, Perry revealed the title of "Part of...
- 4/2/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The new video for Katy Perry's number-one hit "Part of Me," off Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, was released last week, and it showed us a Perry quite unlike the California Gurl we're used to. Filmed at California's Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, it features the singer in full-on G.I. Jane mode, joining the Marines in a paean to girl power — Perry actually trained with real boot-camp instructors in preparation for the role. But not everyone was impressed. Third-wave feminist author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) is calling on Americans to boycott Perry, calling her new video "a total piece of propaganda for the Marines." Wolf wrote on her Facebook page: "I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it. It is truly shameful... I would suggest a boycott of this singer whom I [...]...
- 3/30/2012
- Nerve
Feminist author Naomi Wolf has a big problem with Katy Perry's lastest music video, "Part of Me."
Wolf, who is best known for her book "The Beauty Myth" and most recently made headlines when she was arrested in October at an Occupy Wall Street protest, is asking the public to boycott the singer's video because she claims it's propaganda for the U.S. Marines Corps.
Perry's latest video features the singer breaking up with a boyfriend and doing her best "G.I. Jane" impersonation as she cuts her hair and joins the Marines.
"Have you all seen the Katy Perry Marines video?" Wolf posted on her Facebook page on Sunday. "It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines ... I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it ... It is truly shameful."
The author added, "I would suggest a boycott of this singer...
Wolf, who is best known for her book "The Beauty Myth" and most recently made headlines when she was arrested in October at an Occupy Wall Street protest, is asking the public to boycott the singer's video because she claims it's propaganda for the U.S. Marines Corps.
Perry's latest video features the singer breaking up with a boyfriend and doing her best "G.I. Jane" impersonation as she cuts her hair and joins the Marines.
"Have you all seen the Katy Perry Marines video?" Wolf posted on her Facebook page on Sunday. "It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines ... I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it ... It is truly shameful."
The author added, "I would suggest a boycott of this singer...
- 3/29/2012
- by Stephanie Marcus
- Huffington Post
Katy Perry's "Part of Me" music video seemed pretty pro-woman to us, but feminist writer Naomi Wolf sure doesn't think so. "Have you all seen the Katy Perry Marines video?" the author posted on her Facebook page Sunday. "It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines…. I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it…It is truly shameful." Wolf even asks fans of the singer to do something drastic… Quit buying her music! "I would suggest a boycott of this singer who I really like—if you are as offended at this glorification of violence as I am," she wrote. Funny. Somehow we see K.P.'s video as a metaphor...
- 3/28/2012
- E! Online
Katy Perry has been criticised by a feminist author for her latest music video. The singer's visual for new single 'Part of Me' sees her joining the Us Marines after discovering that her partner had cheated on her. However, Naomi Wolf - who admitted that she used to be a fan of Perry - has criticised the star for the pro-military message included in the video. Wolf stated on her official Facebook page: "Have you all seen the Katy Perry marines video? It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines... I really want to find out if she was paid (more)...
- 3/28/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Katie Price was quizzed about fake boobs and Pip breast implants by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight last night (February 7). The glamour model and reality TV star was billed by Paxman as a woman who knew a lot about "boob jobs". Price was taking part in a debate about the recent Pip implants scandal and suggested that the age of consent for women having breast surgery should be raised. The I'm a Celebrity star was joined in the debate by Anne Milton MP, feminist author Naomi Wolf and a group of women who have had Pip implants. Price said that she did not have Pip implants, but admitted that she wasn't surprised by the health scare, claiming that people (more)...
- 2/8/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
As her new film reminds us, Madonna is as unapologetic as ever – and it's doing wonders for the collective female psyche
If you really want to watch vitriol flow on a monumental scale, be Madonna and dare to make a film.
It's been instructive to watch the trajectory of Madonna's recent fantasy-biopic of Wallis Simpson, We, emerge into the critical light of day. A flawed but daring, visually mesmerizing piece, it takes a look at the journeys of two women – Wallis Simpson, re-envisioned by Andrea Riseborough, and a modern Upper East Side abused Stepford wife, Wally – as they emerge from victimization to personal autonomy and self-realization.
Yes, the film is not perfect – it has its historical solecisms, for instance – but it is far from representing the outright crime you would think Madonna had committed, were you a just-landed Martian reading the reviews. The recent Entertainment Weekly notice started: "The movie is a folly,...
If you really want to watch vitriol flow on a monumental scale, be Madonna and dare to make a film.
It's been instructive to watch the trajectory of Madonna's recent fantasy-biopic of Wallis Simpson, We, emerge into the critical light of day. A flawed but daring, visually mesmerizing piece, it takes a look at the journeys of two women – Wallis Simpson, re-envisioned by Andrea Riseborough, and a modern Upper East Side abused Stepford wife, Wally – as they emerge from victimization to personal autonomy and self-realization.
Yes, the film is not perfect – it has its historical solecisms, for instance – but it is far from representing the outright crime you would think Madonna had committed, were you a just-landed Martian reading the reviews. The recent Entertainment Weekly notice started: "The movie is a folly,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Naomi Wolf
- The Guardian - Film News
At the Sundance Film Festival's Moving the Masses panel, which considered how the media can best be utilized for progressive change, Naomi Wolf had a message for her fellow activists: Ur Doing It Wrong. Despite the headlines generated by her Occupy Wall Street arrest, Wolf was arguably the panelist with the least amount of hardcore on-the-ground activist experience: Omar Shargawi directed the documentary "1/2 Revolution," which looks at the demonstrations in Tahrir Square, while Lois Gibbs was a Love Canal environmental activist featured in the environmental doc "A Fierce Green Fire" and AIDS activist Peter Staley is a signficant voice in "How to Survive a Plague." But Wolf, who is the bestselling author of "The Beauty Myth" and "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries," was the panel's agent provacateur (a phrase whose plural form Wolf took the time to pretentiously mispronounce in French). ...
- 1/27/2012
- Indiewire
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
She's been one of the world's biggest gay icons for nearly four decades, but Madonna reveals that she had more trouble appealing to the other side while growing up in Michigan.
"Straight men did not find me attractive," the Material Girl, 53, tells writer Naomi Wolf in the December issue of Harper's Bazaar. "I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'"
The Queen of Pop also dishes on her 24-year-old French dancer boyfriend Brahim Zaibat. Though the relationship has raised more than a few eyebrows, Madonna insists her four children "respect" Zaibat: "It's also important that my children admire and respect this partner that I would choose for myself. Especially for my sons,...
"Straight men did not find me attractive," the Material Girl, 53, tells writer Naomi Wolf in the December issue of Harper's Bazaar. "I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'"
The Queen of Pop also dishes on her 24-year-old French dancer boyfriend Brahim Zaibat. Though the relationship has raised more than a few eyebrows, Madonna insists her four children "respect" Zaibat: "It's also important that my children admire and respect this partner that I would choose for myself. Especially for my sons,...
- 11/11/2011
- by Curtis M. Wong
- Huffington Post
Madonna‘s film W.E has been in the news a fair amount, mostly because … it’s Madonna’s film. All the attention directed towards it — as if Madge needed anymore — had landed the singer on the December cover of Harper’s Bazaar along with the movie’s leading leady, Andrea Riseborough, a very lovely, youthful 30-year-old. Madonna on the other hand, is looking like a very lovely, youthful 53-year-old. God bless magazine covers for being fountains of youth, right? It’s like gravity, sun damage and a ticking clock don’t exist.
The interview itself, which profiles the singer and her directorial journey with W.E., is very Madonna, and we thoroughly enjoyed one quote in particular. She told the writer, Naomi Wolf, “For some reason, I feel like I never left high school, because I still feel that if you don’t fit in, you’re going to get your ass kicked.
The interview itself, which profiles the singer and her directorial journey with W.E., is very Madonna, and we thoroughly enjoyed one quote in particular. She told the writer, Naomi Wolf, “For some reason, I feel like I never left high school, because I still feel that if you don’t fit in, you’re going to get your ass kicked.
- 11/10/2011
- by Ambika Muttoo
- TheFabLife - Movies
Feminist author Naomi Wolf was detained by police at an Occupy Wall Street protest outside Skylight Studios in Manhattan Tuesday (Oct. 18), where Gov. Andrew Cuomo was being honored with the "Game Changer of the Year Award" from the Huffington Post, reports the AP.
The anti-corporate greed protest contained a crowd of around 50, though Wolf was not initially among them. She was there to attend the ceremony and noticed the police were ordering the activists away from the event. Wolf was trying to help the protestors because the police were unlawfully shepherding them away from the HuffPo event, which the HuffPo's permit did not call for.
"I was taken into custody for disobeying an unlawful order," Wolf tells the Huffington Post. "The issue is that I actually know New York City permit law ... I didn't choose to get myself arrested. I chose to obey the law and that didn't protect me.
The anti-corporate greed protest contained a crowd of around 50, though Wolf was not initially among them. She was there to attend the ceremony and noticed the police were ordering the activists away from the event. Wolf was trying to help the protestors because the police were unlawfully shepherding them away from the HuffPo event, which the HuffPo's permit did not call for.
"I was taken into custody for disobeying an unlawful order," Wolf tells the Huffington Post. "The issue is that I actually know New York City permit law ... I didn't choose to get myself arrested. I chose to obey the law and that didn't protect me.
- 10/20/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Third-wave feminist pioneer Naomi Wolf and Jezebel's Maureen Tkacik debate the recent Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case, and Tkacik's views are just...embarrassing.
Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland moderated this interview between the two women for Reuters.
Naomi Wolf, in case you don't know, is the author of controversial feminist works like The Beauty Myth and is largely credited with the advent of "third wave feminism", in which a new generation of feminists embraced each others' differences and decided feminism could be acted out in different ways (i.e. you can wear heels and look slutty and still be a feminist).
Maureen Tkacik ("Moe"), on the other hand, has had a career as a writer for corporate-owned, commodity-feminism-driven "women's website" Jezebel.com, and is the author of such journalistic masterpieces of great intellectual thought and feeling as 2008's "10 Days in the life of a Tampon" in which she describes fucking, like, ten...
Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland moderated this interview between the two women for Reuters.
Naomi Wolf, in case you don't know, is the author of controversial feminist works like The Beauty Myth and is largely credited with the advent of "third wave feminism", in which a new generation of feminists embraced each others' differences and decided feminism could be acted out in different ways (i.e. you can wear heels and look slutty and still be a feminist).
Maureen Tkacik ("Moe"), on the other hand, has had a career as a writer for corporate-owned, commodity-feminism-driven "women's website" Jezebel.com, and is the author of such journalistic masterpieces of great intellectual thought and feeling as 2008's "10 Days in the life of a Tampon" in which she describes fucking, like, ten...
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