Articles from March 2008
Lauren Bacall dares to bare cleavage
By Leonie Cooper
Dear This Is London,
We're writing concerning a piece posted on your website this afternoon (31/3) about the living legend that is Lauren Bacall. Anonymously written - as all of your celebrity news stories are - you pillory Bacall for her low c...1 comment »
Clip Of The Day: Adam Green is very drunk
By Rebecca Nicholson
Maybe it was the Borrell-tight white jeans that did it. Or maybe it was a bucketload of booze. Either way, Adam Green was looking dazed and confused on German TV recently, as he ticked off those chat show staples of jumping on the sofa (Tom Cruise...Be the first to comment »
Getting dressed, the Roisin Murphy way
By Wendy Roby
Anyone even vaguely acquainted with Roisin Murphy can’t fail to have noticed that the girl likes her threads. Even her 1996 debut with Moloko – Do You Like My Tight Sweater? – was named after an outfit and, as it happens, her particularly filthy...Be the first to comment »
#23: The Death Set
By Rebecca Nicholson
The Death Set are nuts. They look a little like Les Savy Fav and sound a lot like Le Tigre. They're based in Baltimore, which is usually a good thing (see also John Waters and The Wire). They had to adjust their original name, The Motherfucking De...1 comment »
New Music Monday: March 31
By Jude Rogers
REM - Accelerate (album)
Darling REM, I have loved you forever, and I love you even more now you've turned the clock back 20 years. John Malkovich's wizened twin, his air-hostess-troubling ice-cream-flinging guitar-twanging chum and Steve Jobs' b...Be the first to comment »
Bigger boobs for happiness!
By Leonie Cooper
You'd have thought a grown-up newspaper like The Times would know better than to jump on the old let's-make-women-feel-like-their-bodies-aren't-good-enough train, wouldn't you?
Not likely. In a piece entitled How To Increase Your Breast Size Wi...Be the first to comment »
Independent women
By Rebecca Nicholson
The Lipster kicked off a debate in the Independent On Sunday yesterday (30/3), as we had a face-off with the editor of Glamour, Jo Elvin, about the future of women's magazines. She was a little mean, but since Glamour is one of our favorite glossi...Be the first to comment »
The Women of a certain age
By Leonie Cooper
The other night I toddled off to the NFT to watch The Women. It's one of Julie Burchill's favourite films, mainly for the razor sharp, unrelenting, claws-out bitching, and the 1939 film features an all female cast of 130 – including star turns fro...4 comments »
March 28th, 2008
All hail Ruth Jones – and the art of the great sitcom woman
By Jude Rogers
Here at Lipster HQ, we're can't get enough of sassy, brassy, taking-no-prisoners sitcom women – especially those that can shut up the world with the raise of an eyebrow, a pucker of the gob or the swing of a handbag. So what with the second series...5 comments »
New Film Friday: March 28
By Rebecca Nicholson
27 Dresses (12A)
Chick flick alert: the ever-likeable Katherine Heigl stars as a woman of a certain age who needs marriage to feel fulfilled. We've come a long way, baby.
The Guardian 2/5: "What a maddening waste of Katherine Heigl this in...1 comment »
