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From the monthly archives: July 2010

The Kids are All Right

By The Feminist Spectator On July 30, 2010 · 2 Comments

In addition to being the best movie about lesbians I’ve seen in a long time, The Kids are All Right is a beautifully written and filmed, evocative, deeply funny, and deeply felt story about relationships in general. To say the film is about a couple who “happen to be lesbians” would completely miss the point, even though [...]

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

By The Feminist Spectator On July 14, 2010 · 3 Comments

[Spoiler alerts inevitable here . . . ] I just finished the third book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series and have to report that I’m already mourning the loss of what turned out to be a fascinating and compelling cast of characters. Motoring through The Girl Who Played with Fire and then the last book, I found [...]

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Huge

By The Feminist Spectator On July 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Winnie Holzman, who wrote the libretto for the blockbuster Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked and the 1990s television show My So-Called Life is back on tv co-producing with her daughter, Savannah Dooley, ABC Family’s summer show, Huge. The story, based on Sasha Paley’s book of the same name, is set in a summer camp for overweight kids (what used to [...]

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