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Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever. (2000 - 2009)
31 December 2009 3:40 PM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
As 2009 comes to a close, we take a look back at some of the people and events that made this the Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever. in pop culture.
Luckily for all of us, there was far more information to have mentioned from the last ten years than we could have included in this brief survey. That's why our lists for each year are not intended to be exhaustive, but are instead snapshots of different memorable moments that included the representation of lesbians and bisexual women in film, television, music, literature, comics, sports and the Internet since the year 2000.
2000
Chavela Vargas[/link] comes out
Mexican ranchera music legend Chavela Vargas publicly came out as a lesbian at the tender age of 81.
Angelina Jolie wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar
Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Girl, Interrupted and told Talk Magazine, "I only play women I would date. »
- afterellenstaff
Top 5 Writers/Creators Currently On Television
30 December 2009 6:21 PM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
The debate was fierce in TV Overmind back offices but I managed to come out with a list of the Top 5 Writers/Creators Currently On Television. The stringent criteria were three-fold and eliminated several contenders.
Qualification #1 – The writer/creator must have had more than one hit, which knocked Marc Cherry of "Desperate Housewives" and "Supernatural"s Eric Kripke out of the running.
Qualification #2 – The shows must be original entities and not spin-offs. Sorry Shonda Rhimes of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice", and Russell T. Davies of "Doctor Who", "Torchwood" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures".
Qualification #3 – They must currently have a series on the air. David E. Kelley's "Boston Legal" ended in 2008, so his vast legacy, which includes "Picket Fences", "Ally McBeal", and "The Practice", doesn't get a shot. And Aaron Sorkin ("Sports Night", "The West Wing", and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip") is also between projects. »
- Featherlite
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Seven
29 December 2009 7:16 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not »
- Garth Franklin
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Seven
29 December 2009 7:16 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not »
- Garth Franklin
AfterElton.com Readers Name Director, Author and TV Writer of the Decade!
28 December 2009 9:14 AM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Ang Lee, Alan Ball, David Sedaris
To mark the end of the Aughts, we gave readers the chance to name those they felt who had the biggest impact over the past ten years in a variety of pop culture areas. Over the next week we are going to be announcing the winners starting with the movie director, television writer and author. Up first, our only straight winner!
Film Director: Ang Lee
Having made Brokeback Mountain (#1 in our 2009 poll of the greatest gay movies) alone likely would have been enough to earn Ang Lee this award, but the gay-friendly director also made Taking Woodstock, another gay-themed flick, just this year, as well as The Wedding Banquet back in 1993. Clearly, he loves telling our stories and we love him for doing so!
TV Writer: Alan Ball
While Ball, the creator of Six Feet Under and the TV adaptation of True Blood, racked »
- michael
Brittany Murphy to launch pop career?
24 December 2009 2:34 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actress with singing aspirations could end up in the charts if the record label decide to put out her unreleased music
In this culture of cash-in, music execs have reportedly already started plumbing the archives for unreleased music by actress Brittany Murphy, who died this week. After scoring a 2006 hit with DJ Paul Oakenfold, Murphy had allegedly worked on an album with producers Max Martin and Timbaland.
"Obviously this isn't a Michael Jackson thing, but people are definitely interested in Brittany and her story," a source from the unspecified label reportedly told E! Online. "Depending on what she may have recorded and what kind of quality it is, she could end up having a hit song or two."
In the 1990s, Murphy and Six Feet Under actor Eric Balfour formed a rock group called Blessed Soul. Later, Murphy recorded covers of Queen's Somebody to Love and Earth, Wind & Fire's »
- Sean Michaels
Deconstructing the decade from 'The Shield' and beyond: Zap2it Rick's favorite episodes
23 December 2009 10:43 AM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
You can scarcely swing a dead cat lately without hitting some kind of best-of-the-decade list (even though, technically, the first decade of the 21st century doesn't end till next year).
Well, here comes another one. Rather than try to construct another best-shows-of-the-'00s list, though -- something that's already been done here, there and everywhere -- I decided to focus on individual episodes from 2000-09. Are these the flat-out "best" episodes of television over the past 10 years? Probably not. But these are the ones that stick with me, that I can still remember not just for brilliant lines or beautifully constructed plots, but for how I actually felt while watching them. They are, simply, my favorites.
Here's my list, in no particular order. What's yours?
"Final Grades" ("The Wire")
HBO sent critics the entire run of season four of "The Wire" before it premiered in 2006. I had watched the first »
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Abhay Deol’s first production to start off
22 December 2009 10:18 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Forbidden Films, Abhay Deol’s production house, is going to start shooting its first film, ‘Basra’, in January 2010. The film, directed by Navdeep Singh (of ‘Manorama– Six Feet Under’ fame), will be an action film based on drug racket and human trafficking.
The lead will be played by Abhay. The film also stars Soniya Mehra (‘Victoria No 203’) playing a teenage drug addict who ends up becoming a victim of human trafficking, Shahana Goswami as a journalist. »
- realbollywood
Starz Renews Spartacus, Hires HBO’s Chris Albrecht as New CEO
22 December 2009 10:15 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Yesterday, The Live Feed reported that Starz is ordering a second season of its new original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand before even one episode of the show has aired. The show is a look at the world of gladiators in ancient Rome, said to be in the graphic style of 300. It stars Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, John Hannah, and Peter Mensah, and counts Sam Raimi among its producers.
Now Deadline reports that Starz has recruited Chris Albrecht to be its new president and CEO. Albrecht used to be the chairman and CEO of HBO until he resigned in 2007 at the request of the company due to an assault charge. It is under Albrecht’s guide that HBO staked its substantial claim in original programming with such acclaimed series as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Wire. For more on what »
- Brendan Bettinger
Starz serious about original programming: Chris Albrecht in as CEO
22 December 2009 8:46 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Former HBO head executive Chris Albrecht, who oversaw HBO's high quality original series Sex And The City, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Band Of Brothers, The Wire, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Deadwood, and others has been inked by Starz family of networks as CEO. Nikki Finke confirms on Deadline that Albrecht is expected to be named the new CEO and possible president of the Starz family of networks sometime this week. Starz president Robert Clasen is retiring, and with yesterday's announcement of a re-upped second season for the yet to be aired blockbuster original series "Spartacus," reveals Starz intentions to jump mightily into the original-programming game. The network has done exceptionally well with quality original »
- April MacIntyre
Abhay Deol's production house all ready to launch Basra!
21 December 2009 11:18 AM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Abhay Deol.s production house, Forbidden Films, is ready to take off and will start shooting its first film, Basra, in January 2010. It is an out-and-out action film based on the drug racket and human trafficking. Navdeep Singh, who directed Manorama-Six Feet Under, will direct the film.Abhay plays the lead and Chitrangada Singh puts in a guest appearance. Soniya Mehra (Victoria No 203) has also been roped in for an important part. Shahana Goswami is paired with Nikhil Dwivedi.A source reveals, .Basra is an edgy and dark film. Soniya will play a teenage hippie who is involved in drugs and eventually becomes a victim of human trafficking after being kidnapped. Shahana plays a journalist, while Nikhil is a cop. It is an ensemble cast and script..The source continues, .As the film is an action thriller, Abhay is building his body. His role is that of a secret agent. »
My ten years as a TV critic by Kathryn Flett | Feature
19 December 2009 4:40 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
For 10 years, Kathryn Flett held her dream job: watching the box… and being paid for it, too. Now she has written her last dispatch from the sofa. Here she presses the rewind button…
I didn't plan it this way, honest, but the very last word of the final sentence of the review that turned out to be my last as the Observer's TV critic was "Cowell", and as he currently occupies a metaphorical throne at the centre of primetime TV (though technically, of course, Simon is always on the far right of the screen, next to Cheryl) it feels as though the c-word is a fitting pay-off after frittering away 10 years of my life in front of the telly.
But indulge me while I rewind to the summer of 1999, not only a previous century and a technological aeon ago (when I used to watch the bulk of TV programmes on Vcr, »
- Kathryn Flett
16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations
17 December 2009 7:11 AM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) for both film and television categories were announced this morning. Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell announced the nominees at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.
The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct, and 6 p.m. Mt from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.Com live pre-show webcasts.
If you want to predict the acting categories for the Oscars, look no further than the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Voted by actors' peers, the SAG award has closely resembled the winners of the Oscars in the past few years.
For example, the SAG »
- Manny
A Soldier's Story
10 December 2009 11:03 AM, PST | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Some roles are hard to shake. Ben Foster ("3:10 to Yuma," "Alpha Dog," "Six Feet Under") found this out the hard way on a recent promotional tour for his new film "The Messenger." At Hunter Airfield Base in Georgia, he started experiencing severe leg pain from an injury he never suffered. His leg "froze up," he says. "I couldn't walk downstairs without limping. It was so strange." Foster plays a soldier recovering from leg and eye injuries after returning from Iraq. "The mind and the imagination are really curious places. I'm sure those things will drift. That's what we do" as actors, he says. "We allow ourselves to believe things. It's just an occupational hazard." He adds, "I definitely need a vacation soon."Foster's vacation will have to wait, as he is currently shooting a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson thriller "The Mechanic" with Jason Statham in New Orleans. And still, »
The mast of the decade
10 December 2009 2:38 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Sarah Dempster on her TV hits and misses of the noughties. What were yours?
Going up
HBO
Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, True Blood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire: world gasps under combined weight of balls, brilliance and extreme dramatic "chops"
BBC4
Repository of boffinry, curator of excellence, keeper of "the flame". Fact: when they're alone, Auntie gropes BBC4's bowtie and calls it Brian
The Naked Pilgrim
Brian Sewell's monumental Godyssey marked final spurt of neural activity before Five got "the shakes" and had to have a "sit down" . . . For Ever
Honorable Mentionables
The Office, Red Riding, TOTP2, the rise of the pockmarked man-volcano (from Gene Hunt to Malcolm Tucker to The League of Gentlemen's Geoff Tipps), Damages, Ramona Marquez (the girl in Outnumbered), Sir David Attenbrilliant
Going down
ITV2
Cackling digital hen party where it's always durr o'clock. Hobbies: bellowing "skillz" at passing Jack Osbourne vehicles, »
- Sarah Dempster
Six Feet Under To Release More 'Graveyard Classics'
9 December 2009 10:36 AM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Florida 'death-groove' legends Six Feet Under are once again honoring their influences with another installment of their Graveyard Classics covers series. Graveyard Classics 3, slated for release next month, is a tip of the axe to timeless hits from the greatest names in metal... and a few decidedly non-metal names as well. Hit the jump to find out more about this ten-track dose of skull-crushing nostalgia... Produced by frontman Chris Barnes in the band's home-base of Tampa, Florida, this latest installment features inventive tributes to the artists who influenced Barnes and his bandmates – including Mercyful Fate, Anvil, Metallica, Slayer, Prong and Twisted Sister, plus a handful of less metal-edged entries, »
Promo Videos for 'Parenthood'
9 December 2009 7:59 AM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
March may seem like a long ways off, but its closer than you think, and it's when NBC will finally roll out their new dramedy Parenthood which stars Craig T Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, and funnyman Dax Shepherd, just to name a few. Below is an overview of Parenthood as well as some new promotional clips of the show.
"Parenthood" is a one-hour drama inspired by the box-office comedy hit of the same name. This re-imagined and updated NBC Universal Media Studios/Imagine Television production introduces audiences to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
The dynamic star-studded cast includes Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen.
Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham, "Gilmore Girls"), a financially strapped single mother, brings us into the fold of her parents and siblings who will make us laugh and cry, and on occasion, »
- Bryan Jones
Shonda Rhimes explains why Arizona got the girl
8 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Love it or hate it, Grey’s Anatomy changed television.
That may seem an overstatement, since Grey’s isn’t in the category of the dramas usually referred to as transformational — The Sopranos, Mad Men or Six Feet Under, for example. But in terms of pop culture, the influence of the show is obvious every time someone says, “Seriously?” or refers to an essential part of the body as the “va-jay-jay.”
Sure, Grey’s often is infuriating, but that’s just proof that we have an emotional investment in the characters and their stories. And for that, we have to thank Shonda Rhimes, who was chosen as one of TV Guide’s “Players” — the people who made the decade’s best TV.
Rhimes takes her place among J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Fringe), Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Dick Wolf (Law & Order, ad infinitum) and »
- thelinster
Five Questions with Patricia Clarkson
4 December 2009 6:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
In an industry where actresses face fewer options as they get older, Patricia Clarkson has defied the odds. Years after making her debut in Brian de Palma's 1987 crime pic The Untouchables and landing a breakthrough role in 1998's High Art, she's hit her stride and become one of Hollywood's most popular character actresses. In the decade of the '00s alone, the plaudits and awards have come left and right: an Oscar nomination for Pieces of April, two Emmy wins for HBO's "Six Feet Under,"and critics' awards for Far From Heaven, The Station Agent, Good Night, and Good Luck. (In 2009, the Year of the Cougar, Clarkson was also handpicked to star in Saturday Night Live's "Motherlover," an honor of another kind.)
So when Cinematical met Clarkson during last month's Savannah Film Festival, we jumped at the chance to talk with the actress about her career - past, »
- Jen Yamato
Film Independent's New Board Directors
4 December 2009 11:26 AM, PST | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
Los Angeles (December 4, 2009) - Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, elected new officers Bill Condon, Rodrigo Garcia, Alan Poul and Stephanie Allain to its Board of Directors. Director/producer Bill Condon (Kinsey, Gods and Monsters) will serve as President. Writer/director Rodrigo Garcia (Mother and Child, In Treatment) will be the Vice President. Director/producer Alan Poul (The Backup Plan, Six Feet Under, Rome) serves as Secretary, and producer Stephanie Allain (Black Snake Moan, Hustle & Flow, Biker Boyz) will be the new Treasurer. Condon and the team are joined by [...] »
- Nikki Finke
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