Hollywood

Jolie Surgery Raised Breast Cancer Awareness Among Women.

Researchers at a breast cancer prevention clinic have observed an increased uptake of preventative double mastectomies since May 2013 when Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie annou...

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Female Directors, Writers From Chicago Area Weigh In On Sexism In Hollywood

Female writers, actors and directors, including some from the Chicago area, offered their experiences and thoughts on why they have been shut out from opportunities in Ho...

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Stars Attend Brady Bear Awards And Say No To Gun Violence

Some of entertainment’s biggest names joined political leaders and activists at the Brady Bear Awards in New York City last Thursday, November 19, to say they’d ha...

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Jerry Garcia Foundation Presents Whyhunger Benefit

In its quest to help bring #PeacethroughMusic, The Jerry Garcia Foundation, along with The Hard Rock Cafe, will present a WhyHunger Holiday Benefit at 7pm on December 18, 2015...

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Haim Saban, Steve Mosko Raise $3.2M at Charity Fundraiser

The Saban Community Clinic fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton honored the Sony Pictures Television chairman.Haim Saban lit up the room at the Nov. 23 fundraising dinner for the ...

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Barbie's Moschino Ad Features A Fierce Little Boy For The First Time.

A Barbie designed by Moschino is fierce, but a little boy with a faux-hawk and a penchant for glittery purses playing with the doll has stolen the show in Mattel’s lates...

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How This Googler Is Trying To Shake Up Hollywood’s Idea Of Who An ‘Engineer’ Is?

Julie Ann Crommett describes her job as a “tech-and-Hollywood hybrid.”She’s Google’s entertainment industry educator-in-chief, striving to banish stere...

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The Women Of Hollywood Speak Out

Colin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The bespectacled, bearded director, then 35, came to Park City, Utah, with an endea...

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Hollywood Executives' Quiet Ban On Women In The Movies, By The Numbers.

On Monday, L.A. Weekly’s cover story, “How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls,” reported on the dearth of films written by women, o...

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Geena Davis: Unconscious Bias Is Hurting Women in Hollywood.

Geena Davis is making it her mission to educate Hollywood on gender equality. For years the actor has been very vocal about the dire need for equal gender representation ...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024