“It started with a question…why are bras so expensive?” Thus begins the story of Harper Wilde, an online bra startup, which is selling a “Notorious RBG” bra this month at a 35-percent markup. The bra —- indistinguishable from the retailer’s other bras but for the minute embroidered words “when there are nine,” marks a zenith…
In the opening sequence of Mimi Leder’s feature film “On the Basis of Sex,” set in 1956, swarms of men in black and grey suits march toward what turns out to be Harvard Law School. Suddenly, among those drab masculine multitudes, we spot the back of a single woman in a blue dress: our heroine,…
Felicity Jones will star in “On The Basis Of Sex” as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a role that initially went to Natalie Portman. Ginsburg and Portman are Jewish. Jones is not. The arrival of the glossy biopic will be a welcome distraction for those who have already binged their way through the second…
In 2014, on a hilltop in rural Nepal, Daniel Stiepleman found himself getting some fresh air at two o’clock in the morning. He was pitching scripts to producers thousands of miles away in Hollywood, standing just outside the public hospital where his wife, Jessica Hawley, had taken a job as a doctor of internal medicine….
Some will tell you that it’s inappropriate to label the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic “an erotic fantasia on monogamist themes.” Some will say that to draw a connection between America’s greatest legal mind and amorousness is debasing and sexist. And some, who have actually seen the film, will say, WOWEE-ZOWEE. via GIPHY A lot…
“On the Basis of Sex,” the upcoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, dropped its first trailer on Monday. The screenplay for the buzzy movie was written by Daniel Stiepleman, Ginsburg’s real-life nephew. The feminist pop anthems, high-definition jewel tones, and the 6’5” Ken doll playing Martin Ginsburg might not look familiar to our favorite Supreme Court…
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