A Japanese teenager who might not really be either Japanese or a teenager wins millions of viewers with cutesy, subtly sexual, surreal, mainly pointless videos. Discuss.

Salon talks to Leslee Udwin about the controversy around "India's Daughter" and to Freida Pinto about her support

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The "Togetherness" star pens a moving meditation on mortality, aging "gracefully" and being squeezed out of films

From "American Idol" to Paris Hilton to an army of jiggly video stars, vapid females seem to be everywhere.

Female genital mutilation isn't just a problem in other countries. It's happening here, and we need to face it

Romantic fantasies are indulged in Jacques Demy's touchingly outmoded musical love letter, 'The Young Girls of Rochefort.

For the first time ever, Barbie may have a challenger who can kick her anorexic butt. At least that's what her unauthorized biographer thinks.

Keith Ablow told "Fox & Friends" that a man should never hit a girl, even if that means banning co-ed sports

The transcript of a YouTube video being linked to a Santa Barbara massacre is deeply disturbing reading

Why the Starr Report and the Tripp tapes make Jewish women cringe.

Our military endeavor and unevenly distributed foreign aid have left the nation divided, not one country, but three.

Through these classics of childhood, a kid could suffer the privations of starvation in the flashlight-lit privacy of her own imagination -- and live to cherish the memory.

Killing newbies who were trying to cheat the system seemed like a good way to make a buck. But in this simulated reality, who is scamming whom?

If aliens came to Earth and used these song lyrics to understand how we experience summer, here's what they'd learn