In today’s Slate.com, Seth Stevenson writes up a soon-to-appear (as in tonight) miniseries on USA Network, entitled The Starter Wife. Fab write-up. One of my favorite lines, actually: “Having watched an advance DVD of the first three hours, I can offer a mini-review: two thumbs up. Up my own eye sockets.” That’s funny. The review, however, is about a whole lot more, namely, how this show might be pushing ahead a new trend in funding television and movies: single-sponsored work. That just icky. Read the rest of this entry »
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Slate.com recently ran a nice feature article about the promise and danger of new pill regimes that end monthly menstruation. William Saletan rightly notes that the worries about controlling women’s menstruation and messing with that nature are largely overblown. After all, in what sense could we call monthly periods “natural,” anyway? Read the rest of this entry »
CMT 
has wrapped up round two of its Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search. The show goes like this: founder and original Coyote Lil picks five women from her franchise of bars to pair up with newcomers and vie–as a team–for $50,000 and the title “The Ultimate Coyote.” What does it take to be the ultimate coyote? It takes dancing, singing and entertaining. It takes teamwork as the “veterans” are expected to train the newbies from the ground up. But above all, it takes the ability to sell obscene amounts of liquor to a crowd thirsty for a lot more than booze. And these women are good at it.