The Incredible Whiteness (and Maleness) of Oscar
When nominees were announced last month, there were once again no women directors, and no black directors.
When nominees were announced last month, there were once again no women directors, and no black directors.
As the new secretary of state in CBS's "Madam Secretary," Téa Leoni must negotiate a hostage crisis, parry with a resentful chief of staff, dodge a personal stylist, and host a dinner party for an African dignitary and his ten wives. And that’s all in her first week!
Casting Hugh Jackman as the distraught parent of a missing child in the tense new thriller Prisoners seems a stroke of directorial genius. Jackman’s the perfect gentle giant with great strength (and potential rage) lying underneath.
When it comes to Academy nominations, my guess is that you make it a point to either stay up or wake up. Here's a list of major awards, and our best guess about who will be nominated next week.
t was hard not to notice the prominence of women 40 and older at the Golden Globes awards ceremony; exactly two-thirds of the 30 women nominated for women-only categories were 40 or older.
Continuing our look back at 2011 from the over-40 woman's perspective, we asked our pop-culture guru Alexandra MacAaron to give us her assessment of the year in media.