Posts tagged as Ladyism
Is Madonna Eating Our Young? A Post-Halftime Discussion
Natasha: Okay, what did you think of Techno Roman Madonna and her 13th legion last night? READ MORE
Disturbed Lady Begs for Divorce on Jane Pratt's Website
Wow, so the long-awaited Jane Pratt website has arrived and... well, here is a truly horrifying first-person essay by a woman who obsessively monitors her husband's masturbation and should probably be divorced post-haste. It's incredible. She also recounts her attempts to talk to him about his "personal time" (ugh) and how he isn't interested in chatting and she seems to find this shocking. (Guess what? He doesn't want to talk about it!) Also she demands that he be fantasizing about her while this happens, which, I didn't realize the only kind of appropriate monogamy extended to brain waves. I guess the good news is that their marriage is otherwise so great that they have nothing else to worry about. Elsewhere on the site, ladies who know music are infuriated by the site's little "Where Have All the Paula Coles Gone?" blog post. Which, Paula Cole??? Paula Cole is a thing we miss? If so, good news, she just put out a new album eight months ago. All told: we're gonna wait this one out! We like having more things on the Internet. We like Jane Pratt. We're just... concerned. Their tagline, after all, is "where women go when they are being selfish, and where their selfishness is applauded." Just what the Internet needed more of!
Anti Paglia: Poor Camille Paglia Thinks Lady Gaga is Trying to be a Sex Symbol
Camille Paglia's attack on Lady Gaga in the Sunday Times begins with an attempted burnishing of her own rusted credentials: "Camille Paglia, America's foremost cultural critic, demolishes an icon." Who on earth-or at least who in America-would describe Paglia that way? Nobody! The introduction only underscores the irrelevance it was meant to forestall. READ MORE
Oklahoma! at 67: It's Retirement Time
As an extremely passionate fan of (almost) all things musical theater, I do have to honor Oklahoma!'s is milestone status-it is perhaps the most influential American musical ever made. And it was, at least, revolutionary for its time. When it opened on Broadway in 1943, Oklahoma! got rave reviews in almost every paper for, as critic Brooke Atkinson wrote, making "the banalities of the old musical stage ... intolerable." And playwright Thomas Hischak wrote "[Oklahoma!] is the first fully integrated musical play and its blending of song, character, plot and even dance would serve as the model for Broadway shows for decades." And that's true: Oklahoma!, Rogers and Hammerstein's first collaboration, marked in many ways the beginning of the "book musical." Okay, that's nice. Oklahoma!-cutesy as a jackrabbit, sugary-sweet as one of Laurey's gooseberry tarts, subtle as Ado Annie herself-is so earnest and corny that it necessitates the exclamation mark tacked on to the end of its name and also, now that it is 67, a permanent retirement. READ MORE
Inside "American Idol": Flesh Against the Barricades
It gets messy in the Idoldome. But all of the mania happens on stage, not in the audience. The colossal disco lights create a dizzying swirl. Fifteen-foot sheets of white fabric are propped up by a hurried squadron of grips. A pack of deposed Idols appears. They are chunkily boxstepping and no one can answer the question "How deep is your love?" Cameramen circle the 12th place and 4th place contestants as they try to remain on key, then, black-out. Poof! Ryan Seacrest materializes on a massive rafter, the two-chord theme for the show booms over the speakers, a disembodied voice screeches "Two minutes!" A man in a rhinestone tie hustles the crowd to keep the energy up. "Where are you from? How long have you been 12-years-old? Here's an iPod Touch!" READ MORE
Sex Offender Week: 'Celebrity Apprentice' is the Saddest Sex War
Sex Offender Week got a little derailed yesterday due to sad server problems. But we're back today with two more installments on the issues of being the men and the women today! READ MORE
Former 'Jane' Editor Now Spends Days in Nightgown Not Commissioning Freelancers
Brandon Holley "once dispatched what she calls 'crazy photographers and insane stylists' to Aruba and commissioned lengthy articles from investigative journalists. Now, she spends much of her time trying to figure out ways to get Shine's visitors to contribute their own unvarnished thoughts on the site by blogging and posting reader comments." So clearly it's not just the editors-in-chief who lost their jobs; dozens or hundreds went down with each one as well. But the former editors, transformed to work-at-home slipper-wearers, they sure do make a better story pitch at a newspaper.
Footnotes of Mad Men: The Liberation of Betty Draper--Or Not
At the end of season two, Betty became convinced that Don was cheating on her. (Crazy, right?) She spent much of a day tearing apart the house, looking for clues of infidelity. Shoving her hands inside pants pockets (smoking), pulling out desk drawers (drinking), reading every scrap of paper in the house (sweating), Betty, in a deflated and droopy party dress, found nothing. Generally, TV shows will afford one scene to this sort of lipstick-on-the-collar scenario, but instead we were drawn into the hunt over the course of the entire episode. READ MORE
