On Monday morning, Norah O’Donnell, co-anchor of CBS This Morning opened the show with serious news: Les Moonves, her boss and the longtime head of CBS, had resigned the night before after a second New Yorker story broke with new allegations of sexual assault and harassment from six women. That’s in addition to the six…
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As Serena Williams gears up for her next Grand Slam tournament—the U.S. Open in New York—she continues to prove that she is the greatest athlete of all time by topping Forbes‘ list of highest paid female athletes, despite only earning $62,000 in prize money over the past 12 months. Obviously, Williams’ straight-from-tennis earnings would be…
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Back in 1992, years before Sarah Michelle Gellar starred in the WB series, my aunt Joann introduced me to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was wary at first that the film, which starred Kristy Swanson as the titular character, would feature just another stereotypical teen cheerleader. Instead, I saw a fighter, a badass slayer of…
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Netflix comedy specials don’t usually make me cry, but right in the middle of watching Austrialian comedian Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, I broke down. And, up until that particular moment, I’d been having a great time. Gadsby’s buzzy special takes on everything from her conservative upbringing in Tasmania to Pablo Picasso’s reputation as a notorious womanizer…
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The 2018 ESPY Awards will do what it does best when the program broadcasts live from Los Angeles on Wednesday night: celebrate the biggest moments in sports, honor superstar athletes, and elicit tears from emotional tales of courage and perseverance. But there’s something profoundly different about this year’s ceremony, given the cultural conversation. From the…
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I first came across the Kama Sutra at the tender age of 13 when I stumbled on—and by “stumbled on,” I mean dug deep in my parent’s closet—an unmarked VHS. A quick push into the VCR, and there it was: one memorable scene featured a sari-clad woman, breast exposed with her torso twisted into a…
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