April 14, 2012
The R-rated romantic comedy, opening May 18, is set in 1880 London and centers on Mortimer Granville, a dedicated and forward-thinking young doctor, who is struggling to establish his career. While Granville preaches sanitation and
It’s tricky to make a comedy about hysteria. It was the catch-all diagnosis of the Victorian era, and while it certainly offered some wild moments of comedy (like the creation of the vibrator), it was also a lazy diagnosis used to contain women’s humanity. Nearly anything and everything would and did get labeled as hysteria, including normal behaviors like irritability, faintness, and insomnia… Continue reading 'Hysteria' TIFF Review: Tanya Wexler's Successful Mixture of Laughter, History, and Feminism
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Say Sayanora to E!’s Daily 10!The nightly Entertainment Television program — featuring anchors Sal Masekela and Catt Sadler — has been cancelled after five seasons amid a brewing controversy over an on-air homophobic comment correspondent Michael Catherwood allegedly made about openly-gay singer Adam Lambert following the star’s run-in with the paparazzi earlier this month. Masekela [...] Continue reading E! “Daily 10″ Cancelled Following Adam Lambert Homophobia Hysteria
