From review by Pauline on CHICKS ROCK! :
“This documentary film follows the trials and tribulations of five women artists, and how they maintain the shaky balance between motherhood and art in their lives. It is the kind of movie everyone should see, but may not be able to because of limited media coverage.
“Who Does She [...]

Jessica Simpson
One of the tracks (“Remember That”) on Jessica Simpson’s upcoming album Do You Know? has the powerful lyrics, “It doesn’t matter how he hurts you / With his hands or with his words / You don’t deserve it / It ain’t worth it / Take your heart and run.”
Simpson declares in an Elle magazine [...]

From article: Shadows of Day, Los Angeles Times
Not like the movies
A new biography looks into the shadows and ‘Untold Story’ of Doris Day
On screen, she was America’s smiling, singing darling. But off screen, her husbands weren’t Rock Hudson and her life was no light romp.
A former singer with Les Brown’s band in the 1940s. Day [...]

Heather Thomas based her new novel “Trophies” on Hollywood trophy wives – who, she says “get a bad rap, and there’s a lot of misconceptions about them. But really, there isn’t a hospital wing or a library in this city that wasn’t the result of some trophy wife’s efforts.”
Here is an excerpt from the mediabistro [...]

Stronger, smarter, less crazy
Jamie Lee Curtis says she embraces getting older: “I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then.
“Years ago my [...]