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Meryl Streep to Raise Money for Embattled National Women's History Museum
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyActress Meryl Streep -- who has played such strong females as culinary pioneer Julia Child and nuclear plant whistleblower Karen Silkwood -- will headline a Sept. 21 benefit in Washington for the National Museum of Women's History. Although no taxpayer money will be spent on the museum that organizers hope to build near the Smithsonian-dominated National Mall, its congressional champions have spent 12 years vainly trying to pass a bill allowing museum officials to buy federal land for the project. Two earlier Washington sites -- the Post Office Pavilion and the Smithsonian Arts and Industries ...
Golden Globes and Haiti Tragedy: Respectful Appeals Amidst Conan-Leno, NBC Jokes
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyMany of us watched the Golden Globes Sunday night expecting to see Hollywood's typical and inappropriately maudlin reaction to the tragedy in Haiti. But if we were looking for material to mock the stars, whose glittery lives are largely untouched by the nightmare, we were disappointed. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised and impressed that the NBC production team and the celebrities showed respect and restraint, and, when appropriate, an appeal for fans to send money to well-run charitable organizations for relief efforts in Haiti. These awards shows have become an odd showcase for ...
Cameron's 'Avatar' Wins Best Drama at Globes
By not in system - AOL NewsBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Jan. 17) - The science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" won best drama at the Golden Globes and picked up the directing honor for James Cameron on Sunday, raising the "Titanic" filmmaker's prospects for another Academy Awards triumph. It was a repeat of Cameron's Globes night 12 years ago, when "Titanic" won best drama and the directing prize on its way to dominating the Oscars. This time, though, instead of being "king of the world," as Cameron declared at the Oscars, he has become king of an alien landscape, elevating space fantasy to enormous critical ...
Restylane? It's a Fine Line, But No Thank You
By Janet W. Battaile - Politics DailyThese days, it's my mother I see when I look in the mirror. It's not that we resemble each other so much, although we do share some features. It's the telltale lines in my face. Little lines around my mouth, around my nose, around my chin. Just like hers, when she was my age. Back in those days (decades ago), there wasn't anything much you could do about that, except smile them away, which is what my mother did. She had an infectious smile, so genuine and unbeguiling. Nevertheless, it used to make me sad to see her face aging before me. She was always so young, so full of life, so gay (a word ...
It's Not That Complicated -- Aging Gracefully Takes Years of Practice
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAs Melinda suggests, the talented Meryl Streep does seem to scoop up most of the parts for mid-career female actors in Hollywood lately, while Diane Keaton, the original Annie Hall, seems to get the rest. Though these "over 40" dowagers are perfectly fine role models for women in the American mid-life demographic, I personally aspire to the Helen Mirren mold of seniority -- maybe because I'd love to speak with a plummy British accent. Incidentally, for those unfamiliar with the code, "over 40" euphemistically describes women who are actually "over 50." (I know this because I have ...
'It's Complicated': What's Not to Love?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyI loved it, it's that simple. It's fun, it's entertaining, it doesn't pretend to be reality. Meryl is perfect, as usual, and Alec Baldwin, who rarely makes me love him, won me over. I love the setting, presumably Santa Barbara, and, yes, this is a movie about wealthy people in their pastoral grounds engaged in relatively trivial pursuits. It's not to be confused with a movie of serious social pretensions. I like it that a formidable 60-year-old woman who has not endured shots of Botox or other cosmetic re-arrangements, who is stylish and in trim shape, can still get it on. True, as Melinda ...
Anna Wintour's 'Devil' Image Dispelled by 'The September Issue'
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyAfter viewing the soon-to-be released documentary "The September Issue: Anna Wintour & The Making of Vogue," I've done a one-eighty on Wintour. Before seeing the film, I thought of her as a simplistic caricature; now I admire and respect her for her brilliant work for the last 21 years as editor-in-chief of the marquee magazine in the Conde Nast publishing portfolio. ...
'Julie & Julia:' I'm Still Nuking My Asparagus
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyLet's call it the cinematic equivalent of bad Chinese. When I sat down to savor a huge helping of Meryl Streep (and suffer through some de rigueur Amy Adams) in "Julie & Julia," I expected the movie would do for food what "The Devil Wears Prada" did for fashion -- infiltrate and inspire. Two hours and as many bad wigs later I was left . . . unsatisfied. Unlike Melinda, who only "likes" Meryl Streep, I could watch La Streep chop onions for hours and then thank her for making my eyes red. Still, I doubt that like Alex, I'll be shelling out 22 clams for "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." ...
Nora Ephron's 'Julie & Julia' Cassoulet
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyWhile I agree with Melinda that the talents of marvelous Meryl and adorable Amy were underutilized and ill-served by "Julie & Julia's" shifting narrative, I appreciated how director Nora Ephron, herself an impossibly integrated version of both women, figured out how to add eggs to the batter. ...
'Julie & Julia': Mastering the Art of Canned Soup
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyApparently, Julia Child was merely nonplussed by the news that some young thing in Queens was blogging her way to fame and fortune by whipping up every last mousse and tarte in Child's masterwork, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and then writing about it. Whereas she must be folle furieuse in eternity over the dreadful movie that's come of smooshing their two stories together, with a result that's more Mock Mayonnaise ("Betty Crocker's Cookbook," page 302) than Sauce Béarnaise ("MtAoFC," page 84.) OK, maybe the fact that the movie has finally made her cookbook a ...
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