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(x-posted @ my blog) Don Draper has to beat women off with a stick – both on screen and off. Message boards are full of women swooning over the Mad Men protagonist despite his character being emotionally unavailable, unfaithful and secretive. Even feminists. You heard right. Feminists. The women in question offer fairly standard responses. Read More

I couldn’t resist. We’ve spoken anecdotally about the cinematographic shortcomings of Halle Berry and Jada Pinkett-Smith (see comments) but in light of slb’s review of “Lakeview Terrace”, G.D. and I move for the formal recognition of the Pinkett-Berry Effect. This theory proposes that the presence of either actress in a motion picture is a reliable Read More