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Jill Clayburgh Is Dead. Long Live the Unmarried Woman!
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyActress Jill Clayburgh died of complications from chronic leukemia on Nov. 5, 2010. She was 66 years old. She had battled the disease for 21 years. Most people remember Clayburgh for her 1978 breakout film "An Unmarried Woman," for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. In the 1970s, women didn't know quite where they stood. Go back just a few years, and Marilyn Monroe was alive and making movies. But it was still a dozen years before Thelma & Louise would rebel and roar off into the sunset. Even further into the future were Angelina Jolie and Uma Thurman shooting, ...
Eat, Pray, Love. Write, Sell, Repeat.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere's a new Julia Roberts movie, based on the 2006 bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert, and we here at Woman Up are on the case. My friend and editor Melinda Henneberger cautions, If Your Husband Invites You to See 'Eat Pray Love,' Meditate on It. Taking her advice, I have yet to see the movie, nor have I read the book on which it's based. I have read a few female sojourn books, however. Though divorce is not always their starting point, the finish line is always the same: Rediscovery. (My colleague Sarah Wildman calls it "the ending of one relationship to embark on a relationship with ...
If Your Husband Invites You to See 'Eat Pray Love,' Meditate on It
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyWhen a man claiming to be my husband asked if I wanted to see "Eat Pray Love" with him this weekend, of course I played along. That the best-selling book was una stronzata of the first order hadn't kept me from enjoying it, and I hoped the movie would be bad in a good way, too. We were living in Rome when "EPL" author Liz Gilbert was eating her way across town, so we were sure to enjoy hearing the Italian and catching a glimpse of the afternoon light, right? Plus, I think I heard there might be some good-looking food in this movie. The "Pray" portion of the program, set in an Indian ashram, ...
'Eat Pray Love': Escape for the Common Woman
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWhen I lived abroad I used to say, and I still somewhat believe, Oprah-ishly, that I was my Best Self living away. I shed all the weight that I carry around with me day to day both literally -- I've never been thinner -- and metaphorically: all the anxiety and trivial machinations over ephemera lifted. Abroad I felt purer, somehow.Truth is, life on the road, or life as an expat is somehow bigger, bolder, sharper, keener -- the highs higher, the lows lower, than in regular life. Why wouldn't you choose it, if you could? But try to explain that to friends back home and it comes across as ...
'Eat Pray Love' Author to Lobby for Gay Immigrants
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 13) -- The author of the runaway best-seller "Eat Pray Love," whose foreign-born lover was barred from permanently living with her in the U.S., will go to Capitol Hill next month to lobby for changing immigration laws to allow gays and lesbians to sponsor their partners from other countries. Elizabeth Gilbert, whose memoir was made into a film starring Julia Roberts that opens today, will announce today that she will join gay rights activists to push for passage of the Uniting American Families Act. The measure would allow lesbian and gay Americans to sponsor their ...
Julia Roberts: 'I'm Definitely a Practicing Hindu'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyJulia Roberts, the star of the movie "Eat Pray Love" tells Elle magazine that she and her entire family are practicing Hindus, making her the most prominent convert to one of America's smaller but increasingly prominent immigrant religions. Roberts, 42, tells the fashion magazine that she and husband Danny Moder and their three children, 5-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and 3-year-old Henry, all go to temple to "chant and pray and celebrate." "I'm definitely a practicing Hindu," says Roberts, who grew up with a Catholic mother and Baptist father. That seems to make her the most famous ...
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