Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch as Cautionary Tales: Stop Believing Twitter's "Citizen Journalists"...
- 8/29/2017
- Pastemagazine.com
This season of Real Time with Bill Maher has not been short of memorable moments and controversial discourse. Not letting up from last week’s explosive head-on collision with panelist Louise Mensch over fanatical Islam’s role in the recent London attack, Maher isn’t letting up. The wily and maligned political consultant Roger Stone, a possible Russian confidante, is up at bat first. Stone is currently under the bug light for correspondence on Twitter with a figure thought to be linked to Russia. He also has a documentary debuting on Netflix in May, Get Me Roger Stone, which will have a world premiere at the...read more...
- 3/31/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
2017-03-31T05:21:20-07:00Trump Has Made Some TV Great Again
The presidency of Donald Trump has been good for ratings for cable news of all stripes, for comedy shows — for pretty much everything, except for Trump's own Celebrity Apprentice!
BuzzFeed News has made a comprehensive list of all the programming that's gotten a so-called "Trump bump," using data to make sense of different demographics the networks sell ads to, as well as Live + Same Day ratings (people who watch a show live, or almost live), Live + 3 Day ratings (viewers who watch a show within three days), and Live + 7 ratings (audiences who watch a show within a week, duh, you get it by now). It's in no order whatsoever!
HBO's Season 14 Real Time With Bill Maher and Season 3 of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver both concluded a few days after Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton...
The presidency of Donald Trump has been good for ratings for cable news of all stripes, for comedy shows — for pretty much everything, except for Trump's own Celebrity Apprentice!
BuzzFeed News has made a comprehensive list of all the programming that's gotten a so-called "Trump bump," using data to make sense of different demographics the networks sell ads to, as well as Live + Same Day ratings (people who watch a show live, or almost live), Live + 3 Day ratings (viewers who watch a show within three days), and Live + 7 ratings (audiences who watch a show within a week, duh, you get it by now). It's in no order whatsoever!
HBO's Season 14 Real Time With Bill Maher and Season 3 of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver both concluded a few days after Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton...
- 3/31/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
On an electric Real Time with Bill Maher last night, Maher hosted a boisterous and controversial group with conservative Matt Schlapp, left of center reporter Chris Hayes, writer Max Brooks, conspiracy reporter Louise Mensch and academic Timothy Snyder. In two particularly heated moments, one during the main show and one during the online Overtime segment, Maher literally shut down Mensch and Hayes on the topic of Islam. During the main panel discussion, Maher brought up Wednesday’s London terror attack in which a 52-year-old British-born islamist terrorist – who had been previously investigated by British Intel – killed four people outside of London’s...read more...
- 3/25/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher has a great lineup and a real balance of conservative and intellectual guests — including Louise Mensch, Matt Schlapp and Chris Hayes. The episode will cover the pressing stories of the week, and will most likely discuss at length the recent terror attack at the British Parliament in London. Maher has booked some 800-lb gorillas of thought on the show. Up first is Matt Schlapp, a conservative political advocate and chairman of the American Conservative Union, who will face Maher as the top-of-the-show interview. Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder is the mid-show interview. He says that...read more...
- 3/24/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will launch a “news and information” website called Heat Street that aims to serve a center-right and conservative audience in both the Unites States and the U.K. “Heat Street will, in a spirit of free speech and no ‘safe spaces,’ cover a variety of topics from a diversity of viewpoints,” News Corp. Cco Jim Kennedy told TheWrap. Heat Street will be led by former Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the U.K. and self-described feminist Louise Mensch and former TV producer Noah Kotch. Also Read: News Corp Revenue Falls for Fourth Straight Quarter...
- 2/17/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Paul Weedon chats to Brian Limond, aka Limmy, about comedy, gallows humour, and new book, Daft Wee Stories. Strong swearing ahead...
Warning: the following contains frequent strong swearing and content some readers may find er, offensive.
With a cult following that would make even the most mainstream of comedians jealous, Brian Limond, better known to his legion of fans as Limmy, has spent the past decade and a half building a reputation as one of the strangest, most bafflingly brilliant comedians currently working. With the release of his new book, Daft Wee Stories, we sat down for a lengthy chat with Glesga’s favourite son.
“I love saying terrible things,” Limmy exclaims with a wry smile. “Things that I think are terrible and I’ve gotten in to trouble in the past – just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there – something...
Warning: the following contains frequent strong swearing and content some readers may find er, offensive.
With a cult following that would make even the most mainstream of comedians jealous, Brian Limond, better known to his legion of fans as Limmy, has spent the past decade and a half building a reputation as one of the strangest, most bafflingly brilliant comedians currently working. With the release of his new book, Daft Wee Stories, we sat down for a lengthy chat with Glesga’s favourite son.
“I love saying terrible things,” Limmy exclaims with a wry smile. “Things that I think are terrible and I’ve gotten in to trouble in the past – just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there – something...
- 7/29/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
New York papers the New York Post and New York Daily News have both been on the receiving end of backlash for the graphic photos they used for their cover stories about slain American journalist James Foley.
New York Post, New York Daily News Front Pages
Both the New York Post and New York Daily News are known for their often inflammatory front pages. Following the release of the Islamic State militants' video of Foley’s beheading, many predicted that the papers would have something incendiary on their front pages for Wednesday. Neither paper disappointed.
The New York Daily News cover photo features a still frame from the video in which a kneeling Foley is grimacing while the terrorist holds his knife out menacingly. Taking it a step further, the New York Post used a still that shows the militant behind Foley, lifting up his chin and preparing to behead the journalist.
New York Post, New York Daily News Front Pages
Both the New York Post and New York Daily News are known for their often inflammatory front pages. Following the release of the Islamic State militants' video of Foley’s beheading, many predicted that the papers would have something incendiary on their front pages for Wednesday. Neither paper disappointed.
The New York Daily News cover photo features a still frame from the video in which a kneeling Foley is grimacing while the terrorist holds his knife out menacingly. Taking it a step further, the New York Post used a still that shows the militant behind Foley, lifting up his chin and preparing to behead the journalist.
- 8/20/2014
- Uinterview
Heard something inflammatory and outrageous this year? Odds are one of this lot said it. So in a head head-to-head contest, who's the most horrible troll of them all?
Don't feed the trolls. That's rule number one of the internet. When you're confronted with someone who enjoys deliberately making unnecessarily inflammatory statements, the best course of action is to deny them the emotional response they crave. Everyone knows that.
But, oh, it's hard. Especially when, as this year has proved, some people can actually make a pretty good living from being a troll. We've picked eight of the most recognisable – some politicians, some entertainers, some only known for how unremittingly awful they are – and pitted them against each other to find our Troll of the Year. So, yes, we're feeding the trolls. But at least we're feeding them to each other.
The contenders
Richard Dawkins Evolutionary biologist, 72. Favoured targets: Christians,...
Don't feed the trolls. That's rule number one of the internet. When you're confronted with someone who enjoys deliberately making unnecessarily inflammatory statements, the best course of action is to deny them the emotional response they crave. Everyone knows that.
But, oh, it's hard. Especially when, as this year has proved, some people can actually make a pretty good living from being a troll. We've picked eight of the most recognisable – some politicians, some entertainers, some only known for how unremittingly awful they are – and pitted them against each other to find our Troll of the Year. So, yes, we're feeding the trolls. But at least we're feeding them to each other.
The contenders
Richard Dawkins Evolutionary biologist, 72. Favoured targets: Christians,...
- 12/30/2013
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Ronan Farrow's Twitter response to speculation about his paternity was a graceful exercise in the art of the comic sidestep. Here's our guide to using good humour to fight bad publicity
It was a secret almost certainly best kept between the four people involved, one of whom, Frank Sinatra, died 15 years ago. But for reasons best known to herself, Mia Farrow chose to reveal in an interview with Vanity Fair this week that the father of her son, Ronan, might possibly have been Frank Sinatra rather than Woody Allen, as was previously assumed.
There's as little love lost between Ronan and Woody – Ronan hasn't spoken to Allen since the actor-director started a relationship with his adopted sister – as there is between Mia and Woody, but it's fair to assume Ronan would rather his mother had kept her suspicions a little quieter. Even though the rumour had been around for a while,...
It was a secret almost certainly best kept between the four people involved, one of whom, Frank Sinatra, died 15 years ago. But for reasons best known to herself, Mia Farrow chose to reveal in an interview with Vanity Fair this week that the father of her son, Ronan, might possibly have been Frank Sinatra rather than Woody Allen, as was previously assumed.
There's as little love lost between Ronan and Woody – Ronan hasn't spoken to Allen since the actor-director started a relationship with his adopted sister – as there is between Mia and Woody, but it's fair to assume Ronan would rather his mother had kept her suspicions a little quieter. Even though the rumour had been around for a while,...
- 10/4/2013
- by John Crace
- The Guardian - Film News
Extracts from third volume of Bridget Jones's Diary, Mad About the Boy, reveal Bridget is now a widow
Bridget Jones lives on, counting calories, alcohol units and hair nits but discounting years – 51 but answering to 35 – but this is no consolation to legions of fans who have learned some devastating news: Mr Darcy is dead.
Whether he was smothered by a Christmas sweater or died of pneumonia from a wet shirt remains to be revealed when Mad About the Boy is published next month, but the shocking news has been broken in extracts in the Sunday Times magazine.
In the final pages of her last dispatch, more than 10 years ago, the definitive chick-lit romantic hero – dark, handsome, rich, funny, clever, devoted – proposed to Bridget. Alas, while the marriage did produce little Mabel and the nit-infested Billy, evidently the couple did not live happily ever after.
In extracts from the new book,...
Bridget Jones lives on, counting calories, alcohol units and hair nits but discounting years – 51 but answering to 35 – but this is no consolation to legions of fans who have learned some devastating news: Mr Darcy is dead.
Whether he was smothered by a Christmas sweater or died of pneumonia from a wet shirt remains to be revealed when Mad About the Boy is published next month, but the shocking news has been broken in extracts in the Sunday Times magazine.
In the final pages of her last dispatch, more than 10 years ago, the definitive chick-lit romantic hero – dark, handsome, rich, funny, clever, devoted – proposed to Bridget. Alas, while the marriage did produce little Mabel and the nit-infested Billy, evidently the couple did not live happily ever after.
In extracts from the new book,...
- 9/29/2013
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
From Tilda Swinton to Michael Shannon and Ken Jeong,
they're not the stars but they steal the show. Chosen by the Guide's film writers, the prizes for the 23 best supporting actors of 2013 go to …
Who have we missed? Add your favourites below the line
1. Tilda Swinton
Age 52
You'll have seen her in We Need To Talk About Kevin, Michael Clayton, The Beach
There are times you feel as if Swinton has made it her mission to eradicate all traces of natural provenance. She's achieved an almost clone-like physical presence: an ageless, androgynous, translucent-skinned human blank, ready to be moulded into whatever role she's assigned. And boy does she get through them. She's been everything from a distressed housewife to the Angel Gabriel; corporate lawyer to Narnian ice queen. But in personality terms, she's the complete opposite of a blank. Malleable though she may be, Swinton has ironically become her own trademark.
they're not the stars but they steal the show. Chosen by the Guide's film writers, the prizes for the 23 best supporting actors of 2013 go to …
Who have we missed? Add your favourites below the line
1. Tilda Swinton
Age 52
You'll have seen her in We Need To Talk About Kevin, Michael Clayton, The Beach
There are times you feel as if Swinton has made it her mission to eradicate all traces of natural provenance. She's achieved an almost clone-like physical presence: an ageless, androgynous, translucent-skinned human blank, ready to be moulded into whatever role she's assigned. And boy does she get through them. She's been everything from a distressed housewife to the Angel Gabriel; corporate lawyer to Narnian ice queen. But in personality terms, she's the complete opposite of a blank. Malleable though she may be, Swinton has ironically become her own trademark.
- 4/12/2013
- by Francesca Babb, Alex Godfrey, Andrea Hubert, Charlie Lyne, Phelim O'Neill, John Patterson, Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
London — The BBC is in a bind after opponents of Margaret Thatcher pushed the song "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" to the top of the British charts in a posthumous protest over her divisive policies.
The online campaign to drive the "Wizard of Oz" song to the No. 1 spot on the U.K. singles chart was launched by Thatcher critics shortly after the former prime minister died Monday of a stroke at age 87.
As of Friday, the song was No. 1 on British iTunes.
Still, many people say the campaign – which aims to see the song played this weekend on the BBC's Official Chart Show – is in bad taste. Some have called on the BBC to promise it won't broadcast the song.
John Whittingdale, a lawmaker from Thatcher's Conservative party, told the Daily Mail tabloid that many would find the ditty "deeply insensitive."
"This is an attempt to manipulate the...
The online campaign to drive the "Wizard of Oz" song to the No. 1 spot on the U.K. singles chart was launched by Thatcher critics shortly after the former prime minister died Monday of a stroke at age 87.
As of Friday, the song was No. 1 on British iTunes.
Still, many people say the campaign – which aims to see the song played this weekend on the BBC's Official Chart Show – is in bad taste. Some have called on the BBC to promise it won't broadcast the song.
John Whittingdale, a lawmaker from Thatcher's Conservative party, told the Daily Mail tabloid that many would find the ditty "deeply insensitive."
"This is an attempt to manipulate the...
- 4/12/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Bullingdon boys on booze, Gwyneth on carbs – being told what to do by pseudo-experts is hard to stomach
Even if the case for drink pricing were not medically overwhelming, it is obvious that any decent person would prefer to be on the same side of an argument as Dr Sarah Wollaston, the admirable Totnes MP, as opposed to the wheedling teen-poisoners of the drinks industry. And yet, in the days when Cameron was also disposed to deplore the availability of cheap alcohol, in the same stern yet saddened voice in which he admonishes fat people who buy discounted chocolate oranges, memories of his Sunday drinks in one of those beamed country pubs where the daughters of the gentry are traditionally left in the lavatories just would not be repressed.
Equally, when the prime minister used to say, by way of a drink-pricing justification: "It's just too easy for people to...
Even if the case for drink pricing were not medically overwhelming, it is obvious that any decent person would prefer to be on the same side of an argument as Dr Sarah Wollaston, the admirable Totnes MP, as opposed to the wheedling teen-poisoners of the drinks industry. And yet, in the days when Cameron was also disposed to deplore the availability of cheap alcohol, in the same stern yet saddened voice in which he admonishes fat people who buy discounted chocolate oranges, memories of his Sunday drinks in one of those beamed country pubs where the daughters of the gentry are traditionally left in the lavatories just would not be repressed.
Equally, when the prime minister used to say, by way of a drink-pricing justification: "It's just too easy for people to...
- 3/17/2013
- by Catherine Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
With the news that Anti-Europe party Ukip has come in second, beating the Conservatives, in the recent Eastleigh By-Election it should prove as a wake up to the “Big three” parties that they need to change and soon.
I must state now that I am not a supporter of Ukip, in fact I have been told that I am actually quite liberal, but if they have the power to swing from cult support to rattling the cages of the Coalition then they must be doing something right by tapping into the general feeling of the country.
Firstly, the parties in power always tend to badly in swing seats – since the Coalition came into power the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have not won a seat, the Conservatives lost the seat formerly held by Louise Mensch, the Lib Dems could lose the seat vacate by soon to be sentenced Chris Huhne.
I must state now that I am not a supporter of Ukip, in fact I have been told that I am actually quite liberal, but if they have the power to swing from cult support to rattling the cages of the Coalition then they must be doing something right by tapping into the general feeling of the country.
Firstly, the parties in power always tend to badly in swing seats – since the Coalition came into power the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have not won a seat, the Conservatives lost the seat formerly held by Louise Mensch, the Lib Dems could lose the seat vacate by soon to be sentenced Chris Huhne.
- 3/1/2013
- by Joe Hudson
- Obsessed with Film
Nadine Dorries has confirmed that she plans to enter this year's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. The Conservative MP is already a controversial figure for her views on all-women shortlist, abortion and sex education - not to mention her expenses claims and "creative" blog. Her decision to enter the jungle while still serving as MP for Mid Bedfordshire has inevitably attracted critics. Ex-Tory MP and media figure Louise Mensch has weighed in ("Nothing sadder than a politician, or ex-politician, on any of those shows"), while her local party association is said to be considering her future. Dorries has argued that the House of (more)...
- 11/6/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Louise Mensch has slammed Nadine Dorries for choosing to enter I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. The ex-Conservative MP, who stepped down from her Northamptonshire constituency in August, said that people who read her column in The Sun know her thoughts about politicians on the show. "Ugh.#NoThanks," she said on Twitter. "Nothing sadder than a politician, or ex-politician, on any of those shows. "Just imagining the scene in the whips' office if I said I wanted to skip Parliament for weeks to go on a celebrity TV show. #notpretty." Of Dorries's claim that she will use the show to publicise her aims to reduce the time limit for abortions, Mensch added: "Nadine pretending that a serious issue like abortion rights is why she did this is the lowest of the low. Indefensible stuff. "What did she tell the whips, (more)...
- 11/6/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
✒ With 21 of their number arrested so far, Sun journalists naturally resent the presence of police investigating wrongdoing at News International in a Wapping building near their paper's offices. And tension between cops and hacks was increased when one plain-clothes officer was spotted happily munching in the Ni canteen. How was he recognised? Easy: by one of the people he had arrested. Tom Mockridge, Ni's chief executive, is said to have been incandescent when he heard, and has since banned the police from the canteen.
✒ Hugh Grant is clearly not only a huge asset to the Hacked Off campaign, but also a slightly subversive team member. When the anti-redtop usual suspects (Max Mosley, Steve Coogan, Chris Bryant MP, Charlotte Harris etc) gathered at Westminster last week for the launch of Everybody's Hacked Off, the Four Weddings star was a mischievous, BoJo-esque Mc. The pamphlet's author, Brian Cathcart, is known to his...
✒ Hugh Grant is clearly not only a huge asset to the Hacked Off campaign, but also a slightly subversive team member. When the anti-redtop usual suspects (Max Mosley, Steve Coogan, Chris Bryant MP, Charlotte Harris etc) gathered at Westminster last week for the launch of Everybody's Hacked Off, the Four Weddings star was a mischievous, BoJo-esque Mc. The pamphlet's author, Brian Cathcart, is known to his...
- 9/23/2012
- by Monkey
- The Guardian - Film News
The Tories seem very forgiving of infidelity these days. Just look at the mayor of London's rising popularity
Hoping to alleviate the torment of Kristen Stewart, the 22-year-old film star who has outraged parts of the teen world by cheating on Robert Pattinson with the rabbity looking director of her most recent film, a man 19 years her senior, the actress Jodie Foster counsels her that "this too shall pass". Just give it time. How long? Well, as a rough guide, how long did it take in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter? It is now reported that, as well the undying hatred of millions of terrifying Twilight enthusiasts, Stewart is further to be punished by losing her central part in the sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman – or The Huntsman as the first film is already known in prayer groups all over Hollywood.
Jodie Foster is probably right to predict, in The Daily Beast,...
Hoping to alleviate the torment of Kristen Stewart, the 22-year-old film star who has outraged parts of the teen world by cheating on Robert Pattinson with the rabbity looking director of her most recent film, a man 19 years her senior, the actress Jodie Foster counsels her that "this too shall pass". Just give it time. How long? Well, as a rough guide, how long did it take in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter? It is now reported that, as well the undying hatred of millions of terrifying Twilight enthusiasts, Stewart is further to be punished by losing her central part in the sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman – or The Huntsman as the first film is already known in prayer groups all over Hollywood.
Jodie Foster is probably right to predict, in The Daily Beast,...
- 8/18/2012
- by Catherine Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
Louise Mensch is apparently being sought for an appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Producers are said to be especially keen for the politician, who stood down as an MP earlier this week, to appear on the ITV1 reality show. "Louise is outspoken, glamorous, fiercely independent and highly intelligent. She would be fantastic viewing," a source told The Sun. "She is very much on our wish list for this year and we would love to get her on board. "But it is very early days and nothing is confirmed yet." Mensch (more)...
- 8/10/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
From Never Mind The b******* to This is PiL, John Lydon has created some amazing music in his time, but he's also responsible for some brilliant TV moments. As we prepare for his appearance on BBC's Question Time, and a possible face-off with chick-lit author-turned-Tory MP Louise Mensch, we've been reliving some of them. From Grundy to the Jungle, here are our six favourite non-musical John Lydon moments from the last 35 years. Let's hope tonight provides another. Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy on The Today Show
"Nothing, a rude word. Next question." John Lydon on Juke Box Jury
On Donna Summer's 'Bad (more)...
"Nothing, a rude word. Next question." John Lydon on Juke Box Jury
On Donna Summer's 'Bad (more)...
- 7/5/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
John Lydon and Louise Mensch are among the guests confirmed for tomorrow's (July 5) Question Time. Other panellists for the show, which will be filmed in Derby and hosted by David Dimbleby, include former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey and journalist Dominic Lawson. The full lineup was confirmed today on the official BBC Question Time Twitter account. Other musicians who (more)...
- 7/4/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Thousands back Wikipedia founder's call to oppose extradition of British student to Us over alleged internet copyright offences
A petition launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to halt the extradition to the Us of Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O'Dwyer has garnered 160,000 signatures in less than five days.
O'Dwyer, 24, faces up to 10 years in Us prison for alleged copyright offences relating to TVShack.net, a website that provided links to places where users could watch TV shows and films online.
Wales's petition, which calls on the home secretary, Theresa May, to revoke her permission to extradite O'Dwyer, has picked up more than 75,000 signatures in the last 24 hours alone after being circulated among Us supporters of Change.org.
The petition is now the fastest-growing Change.org petition in the UK. In the Guardian article that launched the campaign, Wales said the extradition represented a battle between the film industry and general public.
A petition launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to halt the extradition to the Us of Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O'Dwyer has garnered 160,000 signatures in less than five days.
O'Dwyer, 24, faces up to 10 years in Us prison for alleged copyright offences relating to TVShack.net, a website that provided links to places where users could watch TV shows and films online.
Wales's petition, which calls on the home secretary, Theresa May, to revoke her permission to extradite O'Dwyer, has picked up more than 75,000 signatures in the last 24 hours alone after being circulated among Us supporters of Change.org.
The petition is now the fastest-growing Change.org petition in the UK. In the Guardian article that launched the campaign, Wales said the extradition represented a battle between the film industry and general public.
- 6/29/2012
- by James Ball
- The Guardian - Film News
Natasha Giggs has failed to make the cut-down shortlist for 'Celebrity Mum of the Year'. The Celebrity Big Brother star was among 18 mothers nominated in Foxy Bingo's public vote. However, in the newly-unveiled shortlist, the mother-of-two - who had an eight-year affair with her brother-in-law Ryan Giggs - has failed to make the cut, taking into account thousands of public votes already cast. Giggs had previously dismissed her nomination, telling Twitter followers: "Can u not see I was nominated to get u all talkin about it? And u fell 4 it #mugs (sic)"
Amanda Holden, Victoria Beckham, Katie Price and Holly Willoughby are among those still in the running. They are joined by MP Louise Mensch, Kym Marsh and Nicola McLean. The top 10 is rounded off by The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe (more)...
Amanda Holden, Victoria Beckham, Katie Price and Holly Willoughby are among those still in the running. They are joined by MP Louise Mensch, Kym Marsh and Nicola McLean. The top 10 is rounded off by The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe (more)...
- 3/8/2012
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
Both new Danish political drama Borgen and Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady show us there is still no clear map for women in politics
For anyone wanting to see a woman politician operating at the top of her game, the new Danish drama Borgen offered a brilliant, if fictional, example on Saturday night. The first episode showed Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the Moderate party leader, in the last three days of an election race, emerging as the model of a modern political player, both morally and tactically. She is a woman willing to change course if necessary, but unwilling to compromise or double-cross. Would she support damaging information being leaked about a rival? "How dirty do you think I am?" she asks her spin doctor: "I'd never forgive myself if I came to power in that way." "In that case, I doubt you ever will," he remarks, but her ascent continues.
For anyone wanting to see a woman politician operating at the top of her game, the new Danish drama Borgen offered a brilliant, if fictional, example on Saturday night. The first episode showed Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the Moderate party leader, in the last three days of an election race, emerging as the model of a modern political player, both morally and tactically. She is a woman willing to change course if necessary, but unwilling to compromise or double-cross. Would she support damaging information being leaked about a rival? "How dirty do you think I am?" she asks her spin doctor: "I'd never forgive myself if I came to power in that way." "In that case, I doubt you ever will," he remarks, but her ascent continues.
- 1/10/2012
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
Conservative MP Louise Mensch has complained that female politicians are judged too much on their appearance. Mensch told GQ magazine that it was sexist to "trivialise a woman politician based on her appearance". The backbencher said that her political statements end up "obscured" by talk of how she looks or what she is wearing. Meanwhile, the author - who took part in the Commons culture, media and sport select committee's questioning of James and Rupert Murdoch last summer - is pictured wearing a £485, leather-fronted, Dolce & Gabbana skirt, paired with a £271 silk blouse by L'Agence. Mensch went on to admit that she finds it "kind of annoying" that she has not yet been made a parliamentary private secretary by Prime Minister David Cameron. "It's kind of annoying," she complained. "What (more)...
- 1/3/2012
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
The new film about Wallis Simpson assembles all the bad movie cliches – and tries to downplay those Nazi skeletons
Here's a quote that Madonna is welcome , nay, advised, to put on the posters of her upcoming film W.E., a hagiography of the deeply unpleasant Wallis Simpson: "Hey! This movie isn't quite as mindblowingly terrible as you expect it to be!" Obviously, the film is inescapably ridiculous, predicated as it is on the idea that not only is some godawful social climber with notorious fascist leanings in any way relevant to women today, but that a modern 28-year-old woman who spends thousands of dollars of her husband's money in order to dress like Simpson is a sensitive feminist heroine as opposed to possibly certifiable.
It is a clumsily assembled jigsaw of bad movie cliches, like the Trailer for Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever on YouTube, but funnier, if inadvertently so. Strands of...
Here's a quote that Madonna is welcome , nay, advised, to put on the posters of her upcoming film W.E., a hagiography of the deeply unpleasant Wallis Simpson: "Hey! This movie isn't quite as mindblowingly terrible as you expect it to be!" Obviously, the film is inescapably ridiculous, predicated as it is on the idea that not only is some godawful social climber with notorious fascist leanings in any way relevant to women today, but that a modern 28-year-old woman who spends thousands of dollars of her husband's money in order to dress like Simpson is a sensitive feminist heroine as opposed to possibly certifiable.
It is a clumsily assembled jigsaw of bad movie cliches, like the Trailer for Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever on YouTube, but funnier, if inadvertently so. Strands of...
- 10/26/2011
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
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