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The real root of the vampire trend, according to Stephen Marche at Esquire, is that straight women want to have sex with gay guys. It’s an interesting thesis, but I’m not buying it ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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June, Drop Dead Diva ties together two things we’ve been kicking around the blog the last few days: Is T.V. a better place for women than film?... (Read more in Double X.)
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What is television good for? Curbing population growth,
of course! Ghulam Nabi Azad, India’s Health and Family Welfare
Minister, wants to bring electricity to the most rural parts of his
country, in hopes that it will slow down the baby making... (Read more in Double X.)
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Why is The Real Housewives of New Jersey a smash-hit? The season finale's 4.6 million viewers
in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic testify to its broad appeal, but
why are we so enamored with these table-tossing housewives? Is it the
big hair? The brash talk? The back stabbing? One thing's for sure. It's
not their manners.
Out of all the Real Housewives series—from Orange County to Atlanta to New York City—"New Jersey" is the breakaway hit. Because I have deeply bad taste in TV... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Newsweek has an article out debunking much of the health advice shilled by celebrities on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Most famously, Jenny McCarthy has been on Oprah several times claiming
that vaccines caused her son's autism (the vaccine/autism link has been
scientifically disproven). But, more entertaining is the anti-aging regime that Suzanne Somers promoted in January:
Each morning, the 62-year-old actress and self-help
author rubs a potent estrogen cream into the skin on her arm. She
smears progesterone on her other arm two weeks a month. And once a day,
she uses a syringe to inject estrogen directly into her vagina ... Next
come the pills. She swallows 60 vitamins and...
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Tonight you can see the finals of the National Spelling Bee on television
and watch as the kids contort under the mounting pressure. They “tug at
their hair and display preadolescent tics that are hard enough to
manage in front of malicious middle-school classmates, let alone... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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I really, really wanted to love Glee, the new Fox comedy about show choir—that strange, unholy amalgam of drama club, choir, and dance team. After all, I have already made my love of such dorky performance activities rather public. And before the first commercial break, it seemed like Glee was really gunning for my affections in particular, showcasing all of the following... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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The joyful, saccharine, karaoke-inspring Glee, which premiered last night on Fox, got me wondering: What did we do before Tracy Flick? She first appeared, embodied by Reese Witherspoon, in 1999's Election,
a previously unidentified personality type, the driven, ruthless,
terrifyingly ambitious striver who micromanages her inevitable rise to
power in relentlessly cheerful tones. In the decade since Election, Flick has been transformed from a fresh, new character into an archetype, found frequently in... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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No longer the home of hits like Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and The Wire,
HBO is looking to replace its sex-and-violence lineup of yesteryear
with ... more sex. Last spring, the network issued a somewhat
mysterious announcement about Hung, a dramatic comedy that debuts this summer... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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In seven seasons of 24, I've never given much thought to
its gender politics. For one, I've mostly tuned in for the escapism of
watching Jack Bauer save the world. For another, it's always had enough
strong female characters—villains, heads of CTU, and the
ass-kicking-yet-socially-awkward Chloe—to make up for the damsels in
distress. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Kim Bauer.)
But two sequences at the end of last night's finale jumped out at me
for their portrayal of the women. (Warning, if you have the finale
waiting on your TiVO: Spoilers ahead.) To wrap one storyline, President
Allison Taylor has to decide... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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More and more frequently, movie trailers
are better than the movies they're promoting. As they've become
increasingly adept at short-handing a feature-length plot, and
increasingly unconcerned about revealing all the elements of said plot,
they play like accelerated shorts, complete with a story arc and
emotional climax, ruining plot twists and funny-the-first-time-you
hear-them jokes. They're trailers for people who hate surprises.
David Edelstein, in his New York review of the new Terminator film (aka, the film where Christian Bale lost his shit), demurs from revealing... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Last night's season finale of 30 Rock wasn't the best episode
of the season—the A and B plots didn't hang together especially
well—but the episode provided some of the best lines of the year. The
Liz Lemon plot revolved around... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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This week, is there a tabloid that doesn't feature Jon and Kate Gosselin of TLC's mega-spawn reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" fame? Today, Kate vomited her guts to People, revealing that her marriage to the man with whom she fathered a pair of twins and a set of sextuplets may be deeply...(To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Has anyone else checked out the second season of the Sundance Channel's Green Porno series? Starring Isabella Rossellini, it's an amusingly surreal look at the secret sex lives of animals. If you thought human sex was weird, we've got nothing on wild things. The first season was great, but the second season is even better. This time around, Rossellini dresses up as a six-foot-penised whale, a self-replicating starfish, and a sexless limpet. If you haven't detected a theme thus far, the episodes focus on how creatures do it under the sea. Besides being beautiful to look at, Green Porno is educational. Without it, I never would have known that during the mating process, the deep, dark, sea-dwelling male anglerfish becomes its female counterpart's "own personal sperm bank." (Warning: The webisodes are not exactly safe for watching while at work.)
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