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Mia Michaels will return to TV
9 hours ago
When Mia Michaels announced that she wouldn't be returning to this season's So You Think You Can Dance, America let out a collective gasp of dismay, because how are we going to know what Tim Burton dreams about if Mia Michaels stops choreographing? Last week, though, Mia spoke to The Wall Street Journal and promised that her routines would continue to enchant/haunt us; the Emmy Award winning choreographer has three TV shows in the works.
Mia told the WSJ:
I can’t go into details about it, but there are three separate shows we’re working on, and all three of them are very different. One is a choreography show, one is a doc-reality show of a stage show that will be touring the states and the third one was inspired by a Web site called "Mia Michaels , Please Choreograph My Life" ... They’re all mine, I’m creating them, »
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"Big Love" Season 4 marries politics and religion
10 hours ago
My love for Big Love was destiny.
Perhaps because of my fundie background, I am fascinated with the various brands of religion, especially those on the “fringe” — which is where the folks in Big Love live. Of course, that’s why many people, especially women, object to the series, saying that it glamorizes plural marriage and the subjugation of women. But I don’t see anything glamorous about that part of the series setting. If anything, Big Love shows just how twisted an absolute patriarchy can be.
Big Love’s last season was, Imo, the best yet. We’re seeing Karma (a decidedly non-Mormon concept) in full force, with Bill’s tendency to justify every careless action as “God’s will” coming back to bite him in his too-often-bare butt. And this season promises more conflict as Bill decides to run for state senator, intending to out his family and »
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Namrata Singh Gujral enlists Melissa Etheridge, Kelly McGillis, Lisa Ray for “1 a Minute”
13 hours ago
According to the Hindustan Times, Indian-American Namrata Singh Gujral is currently producing, directing, and co-starring in 1 a Minute, a docu-drama on cancer, while she undergoes “radical cancer treatments” for invasive breast cancer. The 33-year-old actress, best known for her roles in Warner Bros’ Americanizing Shelley and Bollywood’s Kaante, hopes to spread global awareness about cancer, with a focus on global breast cancer.
Joining Gujral as co-stars in the project are fellow cancer survivors and activists Lisa Ray (who was recently diagnosed with cancer) and plays a lesbian in The World Unseen and I Can’t Think Straight), Melissa Etheridge, Olivia Newton-John, Jaclyn Smith, Diahann Carroll, Morgan Brittany and Bollywood actresses Priya Dutt and Mumtaz.
Billy and Danny Baldwin, both of whose lives have been affected by cancer, also appear in the film. Out lesbian Kelly McGillis will narrate the docu-drama, which is expected to release globally in 2010.
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Sink your teeth into these unexpectedly juicy "Diaries"
15 hours ago
What I am about to tell you is confidential and deeply personal. It will take a lot of will power and a good deal of humility. I may never get over the shame. Here goes: I totally love a show on the CW. No, not Gossip Girl. No, not 90210. No, not Melrose Tree Place or whatever the heck the other shows are called. No, I love The Vampire Diaries.
Hey, stop snickering. Now I realize I am on the outer limits of the show’s demographics. I am neither in high school nor a member of the undead. But I haven’t been able to resist a good vampire story since my parents got me a Dracula graphic novel back way before they were even called graphic novels. What? I wasn’t much into princess stories.
For us fangs, er I mean, fans of the show, this weeks starts a »
- dorothy snarker
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