For many, including myself, Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre is considered required reading. The novel operates as a darker, eerier and more rogue version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Much like P&P, Jane Eyre has also seen its fair share of film interpretation. While on the page Jane Eyre brims with passionate emotions and a scary mysticism that culminates in an unexpected twist that separates the novel and its writer from the majority of 19...
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19 Aug 2011 08:54 GMT
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -- Red SmithAt a writer's conference this past weekend, my astute pal Nancy Holzner (author of Deadtown and Hellforged) said she reckoned everything had changed once writing became "content" and writers became "content providers."
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18 Aug 2011 12:18 GMT
With the words "fuck Thursday" spread across three different tweets, Lady Gaga decided to release the video for her new single "Yoü and I" two days early, pleasing Little Monsters everywhere. (And completely panicking those of us who weren't near a computer or Flash-friendly phone...) We had seen the photos of her bloodied feet walking across a Nebraska road, and a rather ethereal, nymph-like
BITCH:CULTURE
17 Aug 2011 14:32 GMT
Whatever you planning on doing the night of August 27th has just been cancelled. It's true. Getting married? POSTPONED. Hot date? CANCELLED. Bubble bath with your hot neighbor? TOO BAD. There is now something far more interesting for you to be doing that night, and it involves sitting on your ass and watching geeky television. You're welcome.
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16 Aug 2011 12:00 GMT
Blockbuster season continues but is Super 8 any different from all the rest?If you're looking for a summer blockbuster this year that doesn't have superheroes or wizards in it, then Super 8 might be just the film for you. Written and directed by JJ Abrams Super 8 is the story of a group of young boys who spend a summer trying to make their own movie. Joe, played by (Joel Courtney), is our hero and his gang of friends spend all their time,...
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15 Aug 2011 08:37 GMT
The media spends pages upon pages in both print an on the web describing how women can or can't have it all. We have people saying you can't, that you can, and also dictating to us why or why we shouldn't care about having it all. There are plenty of us who don't even know what we want to have for lunch, so deciding not only how but if we want to "have it all" (and what the hell that even looks like) isn't really at the top of our to-do lists.
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12 Aug 2011 15:00 GMT
I ought to preface this post by admitting I am perturbed to write it. I am presently on vacation at the beach, and I was forced to retire indoors so as to type up this positive screed. I am annoyed, not that my duty drew me away from the glistening sun, as my sheltered New York skin certainly appreciates, but that my writing wrest me from my reading – a far more egregious offense.
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12 Aug 2011 09:39 GMT
Crazy, Stupid, Love is the latest in a trend of new romantic comedies that depict multiple lives moving along parallel planes and simultaneously experiencing the joy and loss of romance. In this way, the film resembles the most famous of its type, Love Actually, although Crazy, Stupid, love focuses on a tighter group of individuals, a method that should simplify the film’s various lost connections, misunderstandings and misdirection, but, unfortunately, never...
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11 Aug 2011 17:25 GMT
Chances are you've spent the last few days desperately defending your small shop from local thugs, wearing your fingers out texting your thug pals for the next riot hotspot, or sobbing quietly as the world seemed to be melting into a fiery ball before your stunned eyes. When the latest round of cynical politicians trying to capitalise on tragedy for gains in the polls or just to sabotage their rivals gets you down, you need something to restore the will to live.
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11 Aug 2011 09:28 GMT
If you’ve ever been to New York you might have happened upon the legendary meatpacking district. It’s a haven for high end designer shops like Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen but it's also home to – unsurprisingly, meat warehouses. It’s a beautiful juxtaposition, in a way that New York does so well. Photographer Katsu Naito has been capturing the glamour of some rather special meatpacking regulars, in a new show and book entitled West Side Rendezvous. A collection of 45...
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09 Aug 2011 13:30 GMT