Is Shiloh Too Butch?

I’m standing in line at the grocery store where I eyeball a headline blaring reports of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt turning their three-year-old into a “cross-dresser.” Because a person’s sexuality is enough to incite a national uproar these days, it’s hard to take even the most absurd comment lightly.… Read more »

November 2010

How Lesbians Saved Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman’s back—and she’s gayer than ever. Okay, she’s not really gay. Too bad, because what comedy-loving, sarcastic dyke isn’t crushing on her? But The Sarah Silverman Program is back for a third season. And it was rescued from programming purgatory by none other than the LGBT network, Logo. That’s… Read more »

November 2010

Social Studies

Anthropologists and social historians of the future are going to know a lot about our era, even if they can’t figure out the traces of Twitter, Facebook, email and cell phones left behind, when technology has advanced so far they’ve become electronic dinosaurs and extinct. Thanks in good part to… Read more »

November 2010

Helen Mirren: Butch or Femme Fatale?

Helen Mirren is at the trigger in Red and the shell casings fly like uncovered popcorn. Her hit-woman character joins a pack of smooth old-dog CIA operatives, played by Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich. It was fun watching Mirren cock weapons with confidence, step from elegant heels into… Read more »

October 2010
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