“Vanessa Carlton would walk 1,000 miles — find someone who will do a subway transfer for you.”
If she’s a Disney princess, why doesn’t she get an epic song?!
Jake Gyllenhaal admitted this week that he takes all his first dates to meet his mom. We’ve got a girl for him that would make any Jewish mother kvell.
Disney’s princesses are supposed to be perfect. One Israeli illustrator set out to depict them in more realistic settings, with regular girl issues.
Mindy Budgor spent three months in training with Kenya’s Maasai tribe. It didn’t quite prepare her for the brutality of the response to her book about becoming “the first white, female, Jewish, American, Maasai warrior.”
Governments rise and fall, fashions wax and wane, but stereotypes endure. Exhibit A: The finale of this summer’s trash TV hit, ‘Princesses: Long Island.’
Besides giving new meaning to the term ‘boob tube,’ the women of ‘Princesses: Long Island’ are all so ridiculous that it’s hard to get too up in arms about ‘em.
As a reality TV junkie, Lilit Marcus admits she’s always looking for the next guilty pleasure. Well, this summer, ‘Princesses: Long Island’ definitely fits the bill.
‘Princesses: Long Island’ is a much sadder, darker show than Eitan Kensky ever thought it would be. But he says ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ is the most inventive sketch show on TV.
Like millions of American girls, Sarah Seltzer fell in love with Disney princesses. But Disney should avoid putting a straightjacket on the kinds of heroines who exist in the world.