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This week in blogland, we caught up with the buzz about those sex-harassment charges against a presidential contender, contemplated buying a new suit, and went X-rated with Cindy Gallop, whose experience with younger men yielded some interesting lessons.
- We can’t believe we didn’t always know about Kathryn Finney’s The Budget Fashionista, and have already bookmarked their bra-shopping guide. This week TBF lays down a route to always-impressive outfits for business meetings. “While navigating office-appropriate attire can be confusing, there’s one sure-thing,” Sara G. writes. “A suit always looks professional and polished. So we put together this quick post about the best women’s suit brands on a budget. Whether you’re buying a full suit or jackets and pants, borrow a tip that men already know – you can and always should get them tailored.” Click over to see her guidelines and a slide show of affordable suit-wear from some of the most unlikely places!
- Whether you know actress Judith Light, 62, from her rich stage career, still think of her in the 1980s TV show Who’s the Boss, or only cottoned to her more recently in Ugly Betty and Law & Order SVU, she’s hard to forget: “Not just your average star in today’s instant celebrity but a real genuine star that thrills an audience,” writes David Mixner, who caught up with Light last week for a Q&A. Asked for an unintentionally funny story from her career, Light remembers a performance of Hedda Gabler at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. , which included “a very elaborate, Victorian gown with rows and rows of draped tiers. …The first preview went very well, until I was taking my bow. In a way that I will never, ever quite be able to explain I came out in front of the audience and managed to catch my shoe in the hem of the dress and proceeded to fall, literally, flat on my face.” Click over to see how she recovered, with additional questions about Light’s philanthropic leadership in the fight against AIDS.
- Tough women in tough jobs: that’s the story of those honored last week at this luncheon described by TV Newser. PBS’ Judy Woodruff was among many of our BFFs saluting some new heroines: “Four women journalists were honored for their work confronting danger while doing their jobs. Among them: Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in Mexico, Reuters Iran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director and webmaster of the Prachatai online newspaper in Thailand. Kate Adie, a BBC anchor, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Spotted in the crowd, CBS News’s Lesley Stahl, NBC’s Kate Snow….” TVNewser has much more, including a short video of the proceedings.
- Speaking of video, Cindy Gallop is on a book tour. Salon says succinctly why she’s a WVFC natural, even with a web site called Make Love Not Porn: “Cindy Gallop has intimate experience with how porn is changing sex. That isn’t because she’s a member of the so-called porn generation — but because she sleeps with younger men who are. The 51-year-old isn’t afraid to admit it.” Gallop first did so in this viral TED video, and her book tour now gives all of us the need yet again to decide how X-rated we’re allowed to be. Including TED: “Her talk’s graphic content means we can’t include it in the main run of full TEDTalks, which go by default to subscribers, including children. But we do think it’s worth posting here. She has courageously (and wittily) raised an important issue, which we think deserves wider attention.” Similarly, we thought it kind of rude for a WVFC Video Pick, but figured we couldn’t t deprive you of her wit as long as you’re forewarned.
