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Author Katie Roiphe and her novel 50 Shades Of Grey has swept the nation and the book itself is on Kindle, which only adds to the feeding frenzy for the movie rights. More digital ink has been spilled on love novels for women and their sexual desires than any other genre The…
Get ready to see Debra Messing, Maria Menounos, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, and Morena Baccarin like you’ve never seen them before — completely nude! The gorgeous stars all posed in the buff for Allure‘s annual celebrity nudes portfolio, which also features Heidi Klum topless on the May cover. Debra Messing (Patrick Demarchelier/ALLURE) “Smash”…
At 83, Daphne Selfe appears in Vogue and struts along the Paris catwalks. Her secret? Long hair, no Botox and a dollop of Boots facecream
At 29, Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is the art world’s most powerful woman. THE starkly beautiful Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, Qatar, is a fine setting for a dinner. Last month 200 dealers, collectors and curators gathered there for the opening of the first showing in the Middle East…
Updated 2/4/2016 RUN OF HIS LIFE 02.02.16 8:00 PM ET ‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ Premiere: Big, Bold, and Shockingly Relevant The white Bronco. The bloody glove. It’s 1994 all over again. Yet FX’s new series proves the Trial of the Century is just as enthralling—and maybe more important—than ever. “Oh my god. We’re…
Women Having Wilder Sex And Watching Porn Fifty Shades of Grey’ Film Adaptation Faces Challenge From ‘Control-Freak’ Author If bestselling books turned into movies are hot, bestselling books about kinky sex turned into movies about kinky sex must be even hotter. 50 Shades of Grey is the “triple-X” trilogy originally self-published by E.L. James that’s being devoured by women across the…
March 20, 2012 Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica’s world in a Wikipedia age Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks. By Matthew Battles Email At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,…
Behind an elegant door on a posh street in London, Damien Hirst, one of the world’s greatest artists, sits surrounded by treasures: an Andy Warhol “Electric Chair” is propped on a shelf; a major Francis Bacon hangs over the room’s mantel; a piece by Jeff Koons sits nearby. That’s as it should be—Hirst is filthy…
In Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s most conservative province, billboards showing women are regularly torn down and music shops have been repeatedly bombed. So how is it that under the noses of Islamist forces, adult movie houses continue to flourish? The half-lit room smells strongly of hashish. On the screen, a woman…