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Madonna Gives Old Boys' Club Hell in Speech

'To age is a sin,' she says and women are routinely 'criticized, vilified'

(Newser) - Madonna, the New York Times notes, is the highest-grossing female touring act ever—having just wrapped up one that pulled in $170 million—and boasts an accolade-filled career that has comfortably spanned four decades. Do not take that to mean those feats were easy, she told the Billboard Women in...

Breaking Bad Actress: Scary How Much People Hate Me

Anna Gunn: Some fans apparently can't take strong female characters

(Newser) - Actress Anna Gunn knew from the start that her character of Skyler White on Breaking Bad wasn't going to be as popular as Skyler's meth-making husband, Walter White. But she had no idea that people would loathe her character so much that it would result in real-life death...

Don't Blame Seth, Blame Hollywood

He didn't create its sexist culture, he just ridiculed it: Victoria Brownworth

(Newser) - The criticism of Seth MacFarlane's Oscars gig just keeps on coming , with a familiar theme: He's a vile, sexist man, and the Academy should never have stooped so low. But at the Advocate , Victoria Brownworth wonders whether these critics were watching the same show she was. Take the...

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