At the Cannes Film Festival last month, Salma Hayek spoke about the pay gap between male and female actresses.
“The only kind of movie where women make more than men is the porno industry,” Hayek told a Variety magazine event. “It’s simple ignorance. The only thing we can do is show them we are an economic […]
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the […]
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The lifelong Iowa residents met at college in Cedar Falls, a small town in the north of the state, far from the crucibles of the gay-rights battles that would be waged in cities such as New York and San Francisco. “It just hit us immediately – if you can […]
China and US on collision course for war over South China Sea
A quiet battle lingering over the South China Sea just got a whole lot more dangerous after reports China tested hypersonic glide vehicles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The vehicle, dubbed the WU-14, was the fourth test of the missile in 18 months, RT […]
I wasn’t even born when this series was on television.
But… I do give thought to the role of females portrayed in the media, especially in cinema and on tv. And the gap between reality and how it has been presented to the viewing public in the past.
We have come a long way.
Or have we?
From Wikipedia: […]
It seems wherever you look these days, people are racing to explain away bad behaviour with a syndrome and sex addiction feels like the perfect excuse to justify someone’s refusal to keep hold of their moral compass.
Dr Gomathi Sitharthan, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Sydney says the jury is still out on […]
More than one million men around the world so far have been surprised by an unexpected scene in a pornographic movie called Game Of Balls.
In the middle of the adult film, the lead actress stops for a few minutes to deliver a serious message about testicular cancer and even uses her male co-star’s private parts […]
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“Ten years ago Facebook was just cresting as the cool new social media site that helped you keep in touch with the people you didn’t actually like in high school. We fed it our thoughts and feelings, shared our meals and locations and our top ten movie lists, kept it up-to-date on our relationship […]
These haunting photos by Autochrome pioneer Mervyn O’Gorman are 102 years old
From the article :
“IT’S a beautiful, dreamy shot of a young girl in a red cape sitting on a beach that wouldn’t look out of place on Instagram or within the pages of a fashion magazine.
It might surprise you, then, to learn that this […]
David Douglas Duncan was an acclaimed combat photographer for Life magazine for much of his life. He spent the late fifties working on several books about Picasso, including the bestselling Picasso and Jacqueline and Goodbye Picasso, and spent several months living with the artist at his villa on the Riviera.
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