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Interesting insights into how Women and Beauty have been perceived over the past century.

Must. See. Now! Actors Nathan Fillion and Clark Gregg chat with director Joss Whedon about their new film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing .

Whoah! The new Phoenix song/video "Entertainment" is pretty fantastic. It could almost be too ambitious, but  Entertainment  is just that, entertainment, and it successfully (even heroically) juggles several complex story lines, crossing time and countries, into one humble song narrative with finesse. Entertainment is lofty: The plot contains a Major Love Story, some costume drama, a bit of communism, several doses of revenge, hate, longing, loss, even murder, and redemption…Pretty ballsy to attempt weaving issues as thematically dense as these are into one little old rock video.   But, it works.  (And not just because it's cast with incredibly gorgeous actors, either.)    I guess this is why smart music producers hire good directors, like  Patrick Daughters , to make these things.  Key word:  Smart. Heck, I truly enjoyed it.  Frankly, I always appreciate having something worth pondering while rocking out. So much more bra...

Jess Desom's extremely cool handiwork breaks down then re-weaves all the different scenes and goings on in Hitchcock's masterpiece, Rear Window, capturing one total narrative as seen from James Stewart's apartment over the course of the film into one three minute mini-masterpiece. Must see. Sort-of hammers home the truth that perspective is all.

The only moment from the 2013 Oscars which held any kind of truth and beauty in it for me was  Ben Affleck 's Oscar Speech:     *SEE FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW Great words, great delivery…and in spite of complaining about his marriage to a room full of one billion people, a great guy, too.  B ut how the hell should I know?  I'm not Jennifer Garner. Let's get back to the speech -- It contained many truths worth noting and meditating on…Such as advice that one does not succeed if they hold grudges.  Okay --- Well, from the get-go I can tell you that this is a biggie.  I mean, not holding grudges is hard.   I'm not sure why he felt he needed to share this with us, and I'm fairly certain that someone, somewhere knows precisely why Affleck did include it, but we can all learn from his emotion-soaked reminder that that grudges probably aren't the best way to forge a successful business plan in life.  Always better to hear this from a guy ho...

Meet Sarah Ziff, Founder of The Model's Alliance , a modeling advocacy group and the first of it's kind. Below is an intro to Ziff and her then boyfriend's documentary "Picture Me," an eye-opening film about her own personal journey into the high pressured world of fashion and modeling.