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Sisterhood to Lena Dunham, Tina Fey & Co.: Shut up!

Our reigning feminist celebrities laureate can’t stop telling us what they think. But this isn’t feminism. It’s a single-issue lobby.

How the Golden Globes became cool

To get noticed these days, you’ve got to have a host.

TIFF announces first batch of 2014 films

Barry Hertz on the notable picks and omissions

Breaking the grass ceiling

Broad City levels the lowbrow-comedy playing field with a new archetype: the female stoner dude

Girls season finale: The Greek chorus speaks, but Hannah’s hubris goes unpunished

He said, she said: talking points on season 2 of the hit HBO show

Tina Fey blasts mommy chat rooms and tells Taylor Swift to lighten up

Life imitates art this week for the 30 Rock star

30 Tweets for 30 Rock

With the series finalé of 30 Rock set to air, Tweeps remember the good times with Liz, Tracy and Jack

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Review: We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Some questions are inherently annoying: are we there yet? Is that seat taken? Are women funny? But is it better to ignore or engage with the children/moviegoers/magazine columnists who ask them? Marie Claire’s Kohen could not resist the urge to take on that last one, infamously explored by Christopher Hitchens in a 2007 Vanity Fair essay. Or rather, Kohen lets the women (and their male colleagues) answer.

Newsmakers of the week

Glenn Beck’s new shill, a star turn for a senator’s spouse, and an MP stands up for shark fin soup

Bossypants

John Intini reviews Tina Fey’s new book

Opening Weekend: Due Date, Megamind, Fair Game

Robert Downey Jr. plays it straight, and gives stoner boy Zach Galifianakis a master class in acting

Opening Weekend: Cutting to the chase in ‘Date Night’ and ‘The Wild Hunt’

The one good thing about ‘Date Night’ is the pairing of Tina Fey and Steve Carell