EYE | Alicia Vikender Sky Dives Into Vogue US January 2016 As Caitlyn Jenner Says 'I'm Sorry' For Women & Appearances TIME Comments

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Alicia Vikender Sky Dives Into David Sims Images For Vogue US January 2016

Swedish actor Alicia Vikander is styled in a spring 2016 print frenzy by Tonne Goodman.  Alicia is riding a high wave after being nominated for two Golden Globes for her performances in 'Ex Machina' and 'The Danish Girl'.

Alicia plays Gerda, wife to artist Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) as s(he) prepares to undergo one of the earliest sex-change operations. 

Eddie Redmayne (l) and Alicia Vikander (r) in 'The Danish Girl'

Reviews include:

'The Danish Girl': Venice Review David Rooney for The Hollywood Reporter

Review: 'The Danish Girl', About a Transgender Pioneer AO Scott for New York Times

The Danish Girl -- An Opportunity Lost Erica Koppler for Huffington Post

Related French Roast News . . . Anne is reading . . . 

Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege, Reality TV and Deciding to Come Out TIME

To you, what does it mean to be a woman and how have your ideas about that evolved?

Ohhh, that is something. I got to the point where every day I was living authentically, but what does all this mean? What does this thing that you have had in your head for so many years, mean? It’s more than makeup and clothes and all that other stuff. And what is that? I’m working on that. There’s still a lot to learn about being a woman. Honestly, I started getting books, started reading on all that kind of stuff. Have I come up with an answer? Not even close.

Caitlyn Jenner talks 'feminine presentation,' upsets trans community in the process Zap2it.com

Caitlyn Jenner Blogs About Her Time Interview and Sets the Record Straight on Appearance Comments EONLINE

What Is a Woman? Michelle Goldberg for The New Yorker Aug. 4, 2014

The dispute began more than forty years ago, at the height of the second-wave feminist movement. In one early skirmish, in 1973, the West Coast Lesbian Conference, in Los Angeles, furiously split over a scheduled performance by the folksinger Beth Elliott, who is what was then called a transsexual. Robin Morgan, the keynote speaker, said:

I will not call a male “she”; thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society, and of surviving, have earned me the title “woman”; one walk down the street by a male transvestite, five minutes of his being hassled (which he may enjoy), and then he dares, he dares to think he understands our pain? No, in our mothers’ names and in our own, we must not call him sister.

Women For Hillary | Sharon Stone Touts Hillary's 'Global Understanding' In Endorsing Hillary For President

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Women For Hillary | Sharon Stone Touts Hillary’s ‘Global Understanding’ In Endorsing Hillary For President AOC Hillary Women

Talking about Hillary Clinton, Sharon Stone says this:

“Hillary is, for me, the best Secretary of State we’ve had since Henry Kissinger, and Kissinger couldn’t run because of his status as a citizen, but Hillary, man or woman, is just such a great person to be President because of her global understanding that she’s garnered being Secretary of State.

“She’s an educated woman who’s been in politics all of her life, and for me to play VP during this prescient moment when women are in so many powerful positions politically and when we’re apt to have a woman as President, it’s a very exciting time in the world to be playing something that is really in that moment, that historical moment.”

Hillary Clinton Resources Daily News & Analysis Of Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign

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Republicans Dominate Quinnipiac Hillary Is A ‘Liar’ Poll | 43% of Respondents Represent 23% Of Voters Hillary Clinton 2016

Today we launch AOC’s involvement and support of the 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. I’ve long supported Hillary Clinton and her tireless work on behalf of women and girls worldwide. Women govern differently and — frankly — more effectively, from all the research I’ve read.

You will find daily news on the Hillary Clinton campaign, including in-depth discussion of Hillary’s positions on key issues, her history, polling results and how Hillary compares with other candidates in the 2016 presidential election.

Hillary Clinton Resources on Facebook

Much of our reporting is based on information collected in a closed Facebook group Hillary Clinton Resources. Please consider joining me in tracking research, working on digital media, and being part of positioning conversations on how we convince American voters that Hillary Clinton is far and away the best person to lead America in the 21st century. ~ Anne

Hamptons Fashion Crowd Fundraises for Hillary 2016!

2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was on the fundraising move Sunday, attending two fundraisers, Hillary joined a pancake breakfast at the home of Susan and Alan Patricoff in East Hampton, joined by daughter Chelsea and granddaughter Charlotte.

America’s first female president to be then moved on to a garden luncheon at the South Hampton home of Tory Burch, where she was joined by fellow co-hosts Anna Wintour and Donna Karan.

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Angelina Jolie Pitt Working on 'The Breadwinner' & 'First They Killed My Father', A Memoir By Loung Ung

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Angelina Jolie Pitt Working on ‘The Breadwinner’ & ‘First They Killed My Father’, A Memoir By Loung Ung

“The Hollywood Reporter shares news that Angelina Jolie Pitt will executive produce the animated film ‘The Breadwinner’, a story of a young girl living as a boy under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

“The story’s heroine Parvana disguises herself as a boy to become her family’s breadwinner after her father is imprisoned unfairly. The film, which also focuses on the culture and beauty of Afghanistan, will be produced in English and in Dari.” Read on

Angelina Jolie-Pitt Makes Cambodian Film for Netflix

“Jolie-Pitt is currently working on a film for Netflix called ‘First They Killed My Father’. The actor and director is adapting the memoir of Loung Ung, a Cambodian author and human rights activist, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie-Pitt has co-written the screen adaptation with Ung and will product as well as direct the film.”

“Jolie Pitt said she decided to partner with Netflix because of the streaming service’s global reach. “Films like this are hard to watch but important to see,” she said. “They are also hard to get made. Netflix is making this possible, and I am looking forward to working with them and excited that the film will reach so many people.” The film will be released in both Khmer and English.”  Read on

Emma Watson Talks #HeForShe UN Role, Lensed By Josh Olins For Vogue UK September 2015

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Emma Watson Talks #HeForShe UN Role, Lensed By Josh Olins For Vogue UK September 2015

Emma’s extensive interview positions her as the ‘Voice of a Generation’. Watson stepped onto the world stage last September, launching her work as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and HeForShe Campaign. Hear Emma’s terrific speech, one that got her a significant number of death threats online.

The Harry Potter actor also opens up around her “horrendous” split from boyfriend Matt Hanney in December. People solve breakups in different ways. Emma Watson reveals that she travelled to the Canadian Rockies on a silent retreat that helped her come to terms with breakup. “I felt really uncomfortable, even before my relationship ended. I went on a silent retreat because I wanted to figure out how to be at home with myself.”

Emma Watson will soon return to acting as Belle in the live-action adaptation of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. She is also signed up with Tom Hanks for thriller ‘The Circle’.

Related: Emma Watson Is Feminist Book Fairy In New York As She Redefines Belle's Character For 'Beauty and the Beast'

Angelina Jolie Impresses Critics With 'By the Sea'

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By the Sea Trailer

The first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s new film ‘By the Sea’, written and directed by Jolie who also stars with husband Brad Pitt. The period film is set in 1970s France and focuses on the couple and their unhappy marriage. It will be released on November 13.

The couple previously worked together in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’. Read more about the film in our February 2015 Angelina Jolie Collects New Most Admired Woman Honor in International Voting — 5 key reasons why we love Angelina Jolie. 

The Guardian wrote about ‘By the Sea’:

After impressing with her first feature in the director’s chair – In the Land of Blood and Honey – Angelina Jolie disappointed with her studio-sized sophomore drama, Unbroken, which reeked of a desperate bid to be taken seriously by awards voters with its schmaltz tone and massive scale. For her third feature, By the Sea, Jolie has gone in the opposite direction to serve up an intimate character study. It seems like the transition has brought out the best in Jolie.

Jolie is the founding muse of Anne of Carversville.

Diane Kruger Is A Natural Bohemian Lensed By Max Abadian For Elle Canada September 2015

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Diane Kruger was lensed at the famous Beverly Hills home of Tony Duquette, now owned by colleague Hutton Wilkinson and his wife Ruth. Vanity Fair wrote previously about the Dawnridge Estate. Our initial impression of the Diage Kruger images was of Las Pozas in Mexico.

Anne wrote several years ago:

In my dreams, I see Las Pozas … a hotbed of symbolism and myth. If Carversville is a conscious mind, then Las Pozas is Carl Jung talking.

For sensualists, the antidote to Carversville, after working a week in Paris, then flying to Shanghai, is a week in Xilitla and the Surreal Gardens of Las Pozas … born when a flurry of blue butterflies captured the inner vision and imagination of the Scottish eccentric Edward James.

Las Pozas: Creative Pandemonium in a Mind Running Wild AOC Salon

A Sexy, Strong Gal Gadot Talks 'Wonder Woman' Movie In The World Of Motherhood

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A Sexy, Strong Gal Gadot Talks ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie In The World Of Motherhood

Teddy Wayneinterviews Gadot, known today as Gisele in the Fast & Furious franchise, but preparing to become the world’s next Wonder Woman in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’. This role is “just a warm-up for the actress”. 

Speaking of this role, Gadot explains: “I didn’t want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who’s waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different. Little did I know that I would land Wonder Woman not long after.”

Land it she did! Gadot will reprise her superhero identity in the “long-gestating” ‘Wonder Woman’ movie, with female director Patty Jenkins at the helm. The film is the first female-centric entry in the superhero genre since 2005’s ‘Elektra’, with Jennifer Garner.

Boys Club | Obama Weighs In On Rape | Petition To Take Back Cosby's Medal of Honor | How Complicit Is Camille Cosby In The Alleged Rapes of Women?

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The facts of comedian and Presidential Medal of Honor winner Bill Cosby’s rape allegations by countless — nearly 50 in some reports — women who continue to emerge from the shadows have not been adjudicated in a court of law.

The closest the public has come to learning of any admission of guilt from the nationally-beloved Cosby is a recently published Associated Press story revealing court documents from 2005 in which Cosby admitted under oath that years prior he gave quaaludes, a powerful relaxing and mood-altering drug, to women with whom he sought sex.

President Obama Comments Indirectly About Bill Cosby & Rape

This admission fueled growing demands that Cosby be stripped of his 2002 medal awarded him by then president George W. Bush. African American White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks April Ryan posed the question about President Obama’s possible revocation of Cosby’s medal.

President Obama responded:

“If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that’s rape… . I think this country, any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape.”

Sens. Kirstin Gillibrand (D-NY) & Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) Sign Petition

Angela Rose, executive director of Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment, insists that the president could issue an executive order rescinding the medal, make a personal statement that it should be rescinded, or simply ask Cosby for the medal back.

Two senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) have signed Rose’s petition. Last week, a spokeswoman for Gillbrand, who is known — like McCaskill — for pushing for reform in how sexual assault allegations are handled in the military and on college and university campuses, told Politico that the senator supported a drive to strip Cosby of his medal “because we need to set a clear example that sexual assault will not be tolerated in this country, and someone who admitted using drugs for sex no longer deserves the nation’s highest honor.”

Camille Cosby Blames the Women     Read on in Women-In-Deoth

 

95% Of Women Are Positive About Their Abortions 3 Years Later | Hobby Lobby Contraception Objections Update | Colorado Republicans Shoot Down Successful IUD Program For Teens

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Women’s Health News, Abortion & Contraception

1. An important new study that tracked 667 women over a three year period reports that 95 percent of participants reported that ending the pregnancy was the right decision for them.

2. University of California think tank ANSIRH, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, conducted the study as part of a larger ‘Turnaway Study’, which is following about 1,000 women who sought abortions in 21 different states.

3. Three Senate Republicans — Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mark Kirk (Illinois) who is challenged in his 2016 re-election race by Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) — joined all Democrats on the Appropriations Committee in advancing a repeal of the “so-called global gag rule that restricts US funding to humanitarian organizations that provide abortions,” reports Politico. (Note, abortion restrictions would remain but contraception funds would be fine.)

4. On Friday, July 10, the Obama Administration released final rules for employers citing religious objections to supporting birth control for women under the Affordable Care Act.

5. Despite being one of the most effective efforts in reducing teen pregnancy in America, Republicans in Colorado declined to keep it going.

Lupita Nyong'o Steps Up To Save Africa's Elephants

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Lupita Nyong'o Steps Up To Save Africa's Elephants As WildAid Global Ambassador

AOC loved Lupita before she won an Oscar. But to open an email from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, where we support orphan elephants, and read that the stellar woman Lupita was there — as evidenced in this magnificent photo — brought tears to our eyes.

In addition to joining WildAid on behalf of elephants, Lupita will be promoting women’s causes, acting and the arts in her native Kenya. She also visited Amboseli National Park and filmed public service messages for international distribution in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the United States.

Texas Abortion Clinics Remain Open For Now | New Male Contraceptive By 2018 | Solid Link Between Teen Pregnancy & Obesity

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Texas Abortion Clinics Remain Open For Now | New Male Contraceptive By 2018 | Solid Link Between Teen Pregnancy & Obesity

Women’s Health News, Abortion & Contraception

1. At the end of its term, the US Supreme Court issued a stay in litigation around the state of Texas’ new laws that would close 10 more women’s health clinics that provide abortion services.

2. Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic in Jackson will remain open, with the US Supreme Court taking no action on a federals appeal ruling that left the clinic open.

3. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed notice of appeal on Wednesday that he will appeal a court ruling that overturned a Kansas law using an abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation.

4. Sources of post-abortion counseling that aren’t connected with right to lifers are hard to find.

5. In Oregon, lawmakers approved a bill that allows women to get birth control prescriptions from a pharmacist instead of a physician.  Read on in AOC Women

Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

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Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

Caitlyn Jenner debuts her true self on the July cover of Vanity Fair, debuting her sexy femme self in a photo shoot at her Malibu home, lensed by Annie Leibovitz.

Pulitzer Prize–winning contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, who was given unfettered access to Jenner and her family, chronicles the tensions, traumas, and courage that shaped Caitlyn into the woman you see today, formerly known as Bruce.

Jenner speaks movingly about her journey, telling Bissinger, “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’ ”