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When Chloë Sevigny found herself walking the Oscars red carpet nominated for her work in 1999’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” it was surprising, to say the least. Her brand of indie film anarchy, which she shared with her sometime boyfriend Harmony Korine, wasn’t really Oscar material. “I remember like the year before Harmony and I watching and being like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we could like nuke the Oscars and like just wipe away all the status quo?,'” she told IndieWire during a recent interview.

Sevigny’s 1990s in film started with her breakout role in Larry Clark’s ever-controversial 1995 “Kids” and ended with her at the Academy Awards, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, playing the girlfriend of Brandon Teena. It was a journey from the sensational fringes of the avant-garde to the biggest platform imaginable. “I told my publicist that the minute I’m in People magazine,...

As one of the coolest celebrity women of the 1990s, Drew Barrymore had what some may call a "rebellious streak." She was dating lots of hot guys; she was posing for Playboy; and she was flashing her boobs to David Letterman. She palled around with Courtney Love and was rumored to have had a fling with Sassy and Jane founder Jane Pratt. She was (and still is) a real badass - which is something that is evident in her many tattoos. Scroll through for a look at all of Drew's ink, including her most recent design, which pays tribute to her two adorable daughters. Related25 Things You Didn't Know About Drew Barrymore...

The Willis sisters love to make a statement!On the heels of Scout Willis' topless Instagram protest, Rumer Willis also stepped out to support the "Free The Nipple" movement.The eldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis turned heads at a fundraiser for the grass roots group at Skybar in West Hollywood on Thursday, rocking a T-shirt showing the triple-breasted alien from "Total Recall." The shirt seemed to be a happy medium for Willis, who recently weighed in on her sister's topless protest."She’s very bold," she told Access Hollywood. "I give her mad props for that. I don’t know if I’d be brave enough to do it."Scout Willis made major waves earlier this month when she strolled through New York City topless as a form of protest. She took a jab at Instagram in a series of racy Twitter posts, writing, "What @instagram won't let you see.

Scout Willis is speaking out about all of this nipple controversy!The daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore made major waves last week when she strolled through New York City topless as a form of protest. She took a jab at Instagram in a series of racy Twitter posts, writing, "What @instagram won't let you see. #FreeTheNipple" and "Legal in NYC but not on @instagram."The protest came after Willis' account was disabled by the social networking site for posting photos that exposed nipples. The 22-year-old explained her actions in a column on Jane Pratt's lifestyle site, xoJane. "Earlier last week I decided to do something kind of crazy," she wrote. "Instagram had recently deleted my account over what they called 'instances of abuse.' Which in reality amounted to a photo of myself in a sheer top and a post of a jacket I made featuring a...

Chris Nelson ("Ass Backwards") has been tapped to direct the indie drama "Liv" at Black Label Media. Hilary Swank, Molly Smith and Trent and Thad Luckinbill will produce.

The story revolves around a 26-year-old visionary who becomes an overnight sensation when she's handed her dream job as the editor–and face–of a multi-platform media experiment.

As she begins to lose hold of her image and her magazine, she must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice for success.

The film is based on a novel by Karen Yampolsky, and inspired by the life of magazine editor Jane Pratt. Ellen Shanman will pen the script adaptation.

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Aisha Tyler brings the faboo when she hosts the NewNowNext Awards.

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TV Guide talks with Spartacus creator Steven DeKnight, who reveals that the meeting between Crassus and Spartacus was originally written to be used to audition potential Spartacus actors but was eventually worked into the series. DeKnight also goes into detail about why various characters got the ending they did, including the rationale behind Nagron's end.

I'm way behind on The Following but Vulture's list of all the mistakes law enforcement has made so far sure make it sound like a show that relies on an idiot plot.

If you weren't aware of at least five of Buzzfeed's forgotten sketch comedy shows, I'm shaking my head at you.

At the very least, we know there's going to be a mention of Kord Industries coming up on Arrow but will there be more, like an appearance by Ted Kord and...

Former New York Post writer and soon-to-be novelist Mandy Stadtmiller outed herself as the inspiration for Nina Howard, the vengeful gossip columnist played by Hope Davis in "The Newsroom," today at Jane Pratt's xoJane.com. Nina is "an evil version" of her, she writes, one that the show's creator Aaron Sorkin carefully explained was intended to be such the opposite of Stadtmiller that they referred to her as "Bad Mandy" in the writers' room. Stadtmiller, who used to write the Post column "About Last Night," actually went on a series of dates with Sorkin, on one of which she explained, as in episode four of the show, "I'll Try to Fix You," that she'd been assigned to write a takedown piece on one of the "Real Housewives." Nina is not a nice person -- in a following episode, it's made clear that she sometimes extorts money from people to...

Wearing just his blue-and-white swimming shorts and flip-flops, Tom Cruise was all smiles while he splashed about with Suri at Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park, during his trip to the Orlando, Fla., kingdom this week.

“She was like any other kids at the park having a great time with her dad,” a guest at the resort told me. "It was just Tom and Suri and a guide. They went on the 'Aladdin' ride and Tom seemed very happy and easygoing. Nobody was bothering them or coming up to them at all. Tom was doing whatever Suri wanted -- it was so cute! Suri seemed really happy to be spending time with her dad and you can tell he really loves her."

Tom was waving and seemed fine with people taking pictures and video. Jane Pratt, editor of xojane.com, captured the footage of Tom and Suri on her iPhone seen above.

Whether you like it or not (you should), Jane Pratt's name has been all over the news since her perpetually drug-stained beauty editor Cat Marnell quit her job at XoJane.com to smoke angel dust on rooftops (and, apparently, write for Vice). But just because the drama between Marnell and her former boss is on a downswing, it doesn't mean all's quiet on the XoJane front. BuzzFeed Shift's Amy Odell (still weird not to attach Odell's name to The Cut...) caught up with Jane Pratt to talk all things digital, Cat Marnell, and of course, a reality television show. Because how many times in the past month have you though, "This Bs would make for great TV!" Exactly.

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On gettng approached with reality tv pitches:

Yes, I have. We’ve been...

Exclusive: Talk about strange bedfellows. CNBC has just hired Jim Ackerman — the creator of VH1 reality series including Love & Hip Hop, Scream Queens, and Celebrity Fit Club– to be the business channel’s Svp for Primetime Alternative Programming reporting to President Mark Hoffman. In the new position Ackerman “will be responsible for CNBC’s strategy, development and production of new formats, including reality for our networks,” Hoffman said in a memo that just went out to staffers. “His work will complement our highly successful long form and documentary content which has been established over the last few years.” Ackerman had been VH1′s Svp of Development and Production. where he forged partnerships with movie studios and helped to develop the weekly comedy show Best Week Ever. But Ackerman started his career in news in 1985 as a producer at NBC’s Today, and also worked at Dateline NBC, Real Life With Jane Pauley,...

Believe it or not, Scott Disick has "fans."

And the reality TV figure, best known for his overly gelled coif and fathering Kourtney Kardashian's adorable son Mason, might want to acknowledge the few he has.

According to the New York Daily News, while brunching with Kourtney and friends at swanky restaurant and lounge Lavo in midtown, Scott was recognized by diners at a nearby table.

The fans repeatedly called out his name, but Scott just ignored them. What is a fan to do in a situation like this?

Throw a french fry of course.

The neighboring table flung a fry at Disick and it got lodged in his gelled locks. According the Nydn, Disick didn't even notice he'd been hit with the fry and left with it clinging to his hair.

Disick has been living in New York since September, filming a new season of "Kourtney and Kim Take New York,...

The Kardashian sisters admit it—there's no such thing as wearing too much makeup. And you're not going to believe who first turned them on to slapping on the face paint... Kim says she was about 14 years old when their late dad, Robert Kardashian, hired a professional makeup artist to give them lessons. "He said, 'My daughters are going to start to wear makeup and I want you guys to look at least presentable,' which I thought was really cool," she says in a new interview with Jane Pratt's website, xoJane.com. "And we've turned out to be the biggest trannies because of it." But not everybody around them has always been as...

New York, May 19: 'R.E.M' singer Michael Stipe has at last denied the age-old speculation of his sexual relations with Kurt Cobain in the 90's.

Stipe put an end to the rumour at the launch of his friend Jane Pratt's new Web site, 'xojane.com'.

"Let's set the record straight on Page Six. Kurt was a really sweet man, and we never had sex. All right? There's your exclusive,".

Jane Pratt, founding editor of Sassy, was social media before social media existed. Today she’s launching xoJane.com, her answer to Sassy for a constantly connected generation.

Sassy, the cool girl’s anti-glossy--whose winking, edgy-for-a-teen-mag coverlines (Long-Distance Romance: Sucky Or Not?; Do You Need Armpit Hair To Be a Feminist?) could easily be Twitterbait 20 years later--created the voice that informed a thousand snark-filled blogs. It put readers on a first-name basis with editors (who didn’t use surnames in their bylines), and writers crafted features and advice based on personal experience rather than the ruling of “experts” in beauty, fashion, or sex. For Pratt, the personal and the social were intuitive well before the technology was there to implement those ideas fully.

"I was always trying to include the readers in what we were doing back before the technology was there to make it as easy as it is now,...

Courtesy: Style RookieLOS Anegels, California (X17online) - 14-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson has just announced her plan to launch a new magazine with Jane Pratt, founder and former editor of the iconic 90's teen girl magazine Sassy. Gevinson announced the exciting partnership via her blog Style Rookie: "You guys may know how I feel about Sassy. You also may know that I've been babbling about how I think our generation should get one, too. Jane Pratt, founding editor and then Eic of Sassy, also became aware, and emailed me, and we've met a couple times, and it looks like we're going to start a magazine for an audience of wallflowerly teenage girls. Of course, it won't be Sassy (or the rebirth of Sassy, or Sassy 2.0) and nor do we want it to be. For one, you can't try to recreate something that good. For another, while I can read...

Tavi Gevinson, the 14-year-old fashion blogger wunderkind -- and subject of various Fashion Week profiles, including one in the New Yorker -- is launching a magazine. Jane Pratt, the former editor of Sassy and Jane magazines, apparently got in touch with Gevinson, and the pair are planning to start “a magazine for an audience of wallflowerly teenage girls,” Gevinson announced on her blog over the weekend. In a post on her Style Rookie blog entitled “it’s happening,” Gevinson explained the idea: You guys may know how I feel about Sassy. You also may...

Ok....First let me say that I absolutely love Drew Barrymore. Ever since her seminal appearance in the original Poison Ivy, have I been a Drew devotee. Her role as a deeply troubled alterna-teen driven to banshee-like hysterics by her parents in Mad Love alongside Chris O’Donnell only further endeared her to me. Even after she transitioned from playing psychotic sex kittens to playing Adam Sandler’s giggling love interest, to Jimmy Fallon’s giggling love interest to most recently, Hugh Grant’s giggling love interest, my feelings for Drew have not wavered. That said.... Drew, Wtf! A reality show based on a “relationship boot camp”?! Tough Love, that’s what Drew and her Flower Films partner, Nancy Juvonen have hoodwinked VH1 into signing up for 8 episodes of. To be fair, this is VH1, home of My Fair Brady, I Love New York, I Love Money, I Love Money,...

Elizabeth Hurley has been warned not to sue Jane magazine over allegedly false quotes - because the publication has them on tape. The Estee Lauder model is threatening to sue the American magazine for claiming that she said her ex-boyfriend actor Hugh Grant was bad in bed - but Jane say any action will "immediately fail" because they hold proof of her comments. Hurley was outraged by the printed interview in the magazine, insisting she "never said anything mean about Hugh." But editors at the publication claim they have the interview on tape, and Liz definitely stated her former lover was lacking between the sheets. Executive editor Amanda Aldridge says, "Any attempt by Miss Hurley to launch legal proceedings can only end in immediate failure. The interview was conducted by one of our senior contributing editors and the magazine's overall editor, Jane Pratt has heard the full recording. That is the way we work and Jane stands fully behind the story."...