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Year in Review: Five Women on Top in Pop Culture
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyAt year's end we've got a rich crop of uppity women -- real and imagined -- who left their deep prints on popular culture in 2010. Some are famous, some are obscure. Some are not widely known by name but known for what they did. But all had a measure of influence on society, on the media, on politics, on the entertainment business, on the national conversation. They helped reshape the cultural landscape while enraging and entertaining, shocking and inspiring millions of people, for good or bad. My top five: 1. Sarah Palin -- she'll be on everyone's list. A genius at media dominance, her ...
Newcomer to Star in 'Dragon Tattoo'
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (Aug. 16) - Newcomer Rooney Mara has landed one of the most-coveted roles in Hollywood, co-starring alongside James Bond star Daniel Craig in the English-language remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Sony Pictures announced Monday that Mara, 25, will play Lisbeth Salander, a fearless genius tormented by a terrible childhood, in the crime thriller based on the first book in Stieg Larsson's best-selling series. Kevin Winter, Getty Images Rooney Mara has been cast as troubled computer genius Lisbeth Salander in the English-language movie of "The Girl With the Dragon ...
Stress Management: Can I Rent a Wife?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- My colleague Joann Weiner recently wrote a post for this site in which she described the blissful, stress-free summer week she just enjoyed in Washington, D.C., while her family was out of town. She exercised . . . she went out to dinner . . . she tried beer ice cream . . . she even -- gasp -- took time to smell the proverbial flowers. I'm happy for Jo. Truly I am. It's just that after I read her post, I took one look at the way I've spent the last seven days and thought: What's wrong with this picture? You see, I'm having a different sort of week. I call it a "Calgon" week. Don't ...
Roman Polanski Case Calls for Lisbeth Salander-Style Justice
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyAnyone who remembers the young, fragile and insane Catherine Deneuve carrying a dead rabbit in her purse as she wandered crazily scared in her spooky apartment in Paris, anyone who remembers the image of that skinned rabbit, and the sexual innuendo it was meant to symbolize, in the film "Repulsion" (1965), has got to believe that in Roman Polanski we find one fetid mind. So when Polanski, already a celebrated genius terrible of film, who had endured the nightmarish 1969 killing of his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, by the notorious Charles Manson gang, was brought up on charges of ...
Lisbeth Salander, the Girl Who Rocked the Mystery-Action Genre
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWe are all a little in love with her. In this season of heat and sweat and languor, there's no escaping Lisbeth Salander. She is, of course, the enigmatic action hero of the sensational Millennium Trilogy -- "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire," The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest''-- the trio of dazzling mystery novels by the Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, who died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2004, before his manuscripts were published and he could witness the worldwide phenomenon his books became in just a few years. Lisbeth Salander, 25, frail, ...
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