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No, You Silly, They Aren’t Clones, They’re Septuplets
Tatiana Maslany got so much attention for her amazing work in Orphan Black. The series Orphan Black received rave reviews. Orphan Black looks and smells like success and money. How you gonna jump on the Orphan Black bandwagon? Here’s how. Noomi Rapace is set to play 7 different sisters in What Happened to Monday? The […]
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Women Directors Daily News
A post about 10 Female Filmmakers to Follow at Indiewire recently had many comments with additional names of women in film to follow in Twitter. One of the comments mentioned a Twitter list of women directors. Since it’s really easy to make a daily newspaper from a Twitter list using a tool called paper.li, I […]
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Jon Stewart’s Interview with Malala
Malala Yousafzai is 16 now and is appearing in promotion of her book I am Malala. The Pakistani girl is the youngest person ever nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Her story and her courage are remarkable. Jon Stewart had her on The Daily Show. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily […]
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Marvel: Ultimate Mentor Adventure for girls interested in STEM fields
Marvel is doing something marvelous for girls who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) around the release of Thor: The Dark World. The program is called Ultimate Mentor Adventure. Here’s how it works. Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster, an astrophysicist, in Thor: The Dark World describes the program in a video […]
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We Need More Young Geeky Female Role Models on TV
In my other life as a web educator, I spoke on a panel at WordCamp last weekend. The panel was billed this way: Developer Diversity: The Mars/Venus Thing and WordPress Moderator: Karen Arnold Panelists: Suzette Franck, Alison Barrett, Daryl L. L. Houston, Virginia DeBolt, Mark Casias The discussion was about how to get more women in […]
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Orphan Black explores the question of who owns a woman’s body
Tatiana Maslany recently gave an interview to TV Guide. They were talking to her about her upcoming role as Aziz Ansari’s love interest on Parks and Recreation, but the conversation quickly turned to Orphan Black and clones. In the final episode of season one on Orphan Black, the clone Cosima, a scientist, does some binary […]
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Entertainment is a gift, hating on entertainers isn’t
We have a serious problem with our entertainment. We think we own it. We think we own the stories, the characters, the actors. We think it’s ours to dictate and control. If it isn’t the way we want it to be, we get vicious. Entertainment is a gift to us, created and conceived for our […]
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Orphan Black Creators Talk Season 2, Possible New Clones, and DVDs
The creators of Orphan Black, John Fawcett and Graeme Manson, talk with TV|Line about season 2, Emmy snubs, Tatiana Maslany’s mad skills, whether there will be new clones coming, and the goodies available on the newly released DVD set of season 1. See Also: The Force That is Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black
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The New Doctor Who
Reaction began immediately on Twitter to the announcement that Peter Capaldi would be the 12th Doctor Who. It was the top trending topic. I was hoping it would be a woman – I heard Helen Mirren said she would do it – but the choice they made seems to be a solid one. I do […]
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Must Watch Show: Switched at Birth Renewed for a 3rd Season
Switched at Birth on ABC Family is a terrific series. The announcement came this week that it’s renewed for a 3rd season. I originally watched because I’m a Marlee Matlin fan and like shows that feature sign language, but I quickly got caught up in the story and interested in the characters.
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