Lisa Kirchner

In TV land, spring 2012 is lady season. Three shows just launched -- HBO's Girls, Oxygen's Brooklyn 11223 (pictured above) and ABC's Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23 -- offering up what could arguably be called the...

When two of this year's most-anticipated films feature complete cretins in the protaganist's role, it's safe to say that winter 2012 marks the season of the anti-hero. And though the settings could not be more different -- Los Angeles in the summer and Wisconsin in the winter -- both films...

Xavier Dolan probably wouldn't like being contrasted with Woody Allen with regards to his sexual preference, not because he's in the closet but because he's of the new post-gay generation--orientation makes no difference. Yet there's no denying the comparison.

Like Allen, Dolan writes, acts and stars in his films. He's...

Last week's gushingly reported study, "Researchers Show Women's Tears Turn Men Off!" felt like another nail in the coffin of civilization. Offered up like a cautionary tale in headlines around the world--from The New York Times, "In Women's Tears, a Chemical That Says, 'Not Tonight, Dear'" to Business...

ABC News is flogging its upcoming Barbara Walters special (airing tonight at 9pm) by showing Oprah Winfrey, the subject of the 2-hour special, in tears. I love what Oprah has to say about her best friend Gayle King and feel lucky to have such friends in my life. The first...

In a piece titled "Saint Mary Mac and Her Holy Rack," Australian magazine ZOO Weekly paid tribute this week to the country's first canonized saint. The six-photo spread depicts a model in black lingerie capped off with nun's headgear. Naturally, the magazine is being attacked by the Catholic church.

No...

Lady Gaga is the death of sex? I bow to the Gaga machine, but the headline from this week's Sunday Times (excerpted here) gives her too much credit. The piece itself reads more like Camille Paglia -- despite her preference for women -- doesn't find pop's hottest diva...