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9 Times Movies Blantantly Lied to Us About What Sex Is Really Like

23 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Even actors know it.

If sex was really like it was in movies, we’d always be hoarse from sexy moaning, post-coital cigarettes and orgasms that arrived promptly three minutes into sex. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar U.K., Kristen Stewart copped to the high standards to which her famous sex scene in Twilight was held, griping, “It had to be transcendent and otherworldly, inhuman, better sex than you can possibly ever imagine, and we were like, ‘How do we live up to that?'”

While the film industry is thankfully demonstrating a new interest in depicting the unglamorous reality of sex, led by filmmakers like Amy Schumer, Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham, the majority of movies still abide by the same stubborn clichés. It’s time to stop comparing and start calling bullshit.

Here’s what movies would have us thinking sex is really all about.

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This Is What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong About the Female Orgasm

02 Monday Feb 2015

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It’s official: Actresses are getting tired of doing “the orgasm face.”

The Affair star Ruth Wilson lamented that she’s constantly required to make “that face” onscreen, telling Net-A-Porter‘s The Edit last week, “I kept insisting, ‘Why have I always got to do the orgasm face? There should be a male orgasm face. Why is it always the woman who’s orgasming?'”

Anyone can picture the exact face she’s referring to. From the perfectly arched back to the mouth that stays delicately pretty even when it’s moaning, TV’s classic O-face would have you believe every woman looks, sounds and acts exactly the same during sex.

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112 Weddings: Filmmaker Reveals What Really Happens After the Ceremony

07 Monday Jul 2014

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While filming 112 weddings over the course of 20 years, videographer and documentary filmmaker Doug Block found he couldn’t shake one simple question: After the cake was cut and the gifts were opened, whatever became of these couples’ marriages?

That question inspired 112 Weddings, a documentary that explores how life and marriage have changed for 10 couples since Block filmed their weddings years earlier. Juxtaposing footage from the couples’ wedding days with candid present-day interviews, the film reveals which marriages thrived, stumbled, and, in two cases, ended.
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Harry Potter Proposal Features Quidditch Box, Hidden Ring

08 Monday Apr 2013

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Rachel Allison knew her girlfriend, Jaquie Richards, had been a “Harry Potter” fan since 4th grade. So when Allison decided to pop the question, she turned to Hogwarts for some proposal inspiration.

Allison enlisted the help of artist Tony Albano to create a “Quidditch box,” filled with the bat and four balls necessary to play the mythical game featured in the “Harry Potter” series. She hid an engagement ring inside one of the balls, the “Golden Snitch,” then surprised Richards.

Allison told HuffPost Weddings that although she has never read the “Harry Potter” books, the movies have been a major source of entertainment for her and Richards since they first began dating in 2010. She was inspired to center her proposal around Quidditch because she wanted the phrase “I open at the close,” which is inscribed on the Snitch and signifies endings and new beginnings, to factor into the proposal. Continue reading →

Red carpet fashion: The biggest do’s and dont’s

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Raise your hand if your favorite part of the Academy Awards is choosing the best- and worst-dressed stars on the red carpet! (We’re raising our hands, just so you know.)

After watching hundreds of gowns make their way down the red carpet, we’ve learned a thing or two about what it takes to make the “best dressed list” (hint: sheer tops and blue eyeshadow don’t work). In the slideshow below, we compiled the top 10 fashion do’s and don’ts we’ve learned from Hollywood’s biggest night.

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UC Davis Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Galindo designs costumes for stage and screen

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Leafing through a giant portfolio filled with photos of her many designs, couture fashion designer and historical film costume researcher Elizabeth Galindo can remember exactly how she designed, sewed, and accessorized every one of her signature gowns. After more than 20 years in the business, that’s a lot of dresses.

“This is all hand burnt velvet and it has 24-carat gold thread running through it,” Galindo says, pausing at a photo of Sophia Loren wearing an intricately patterned gold dress. “The beads are all glass beads from the island of Murano. The fabric alone took me six weeks, and then this was draped on her. That took about five fittings before we could start sewing.”

These days, Galindo has been a fixture on the UC Davis campus as she studies for her Ph.D. and, most recently, designed the costumes for the upcoming Theater and Dance Department production ofGallathea.

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“Les Miserables” wedding flash mob goes viral

18 Monday Feb 2013

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With less than one month to go before the release of the film adaptation of “Les Miserables,” musical theater-loving couples may find themselves dreaming a dream of incorporating The Great White Way into their nuptials. Allow us to give you a little inspiration, courtesy of one Danish couple and their insanely talented friends.

Back in May, Susanne and Sune Vibæk Svanekier posted a video on YouTube of their guests bursting out into a surprise rendition of “One Day More” from “Les Miserables.” Watch the video above to see the newlyweds’ friends take on the classic song, each standing during the reception to belt out the different parts.

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UC Davis, the sitcom

18 Monday Feb 2013

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After spending a year living in the UC Davis residence halls, Stephen Leung thought the experience would be the perfect material for a sitcom.

Fast forward a year. Three episodes of “Freshman Fifteen,” the only known sitcom filmed in Davis by UC Davis students, are now on YouTube.

“Everyone was really close to each other [in the dorms] so I got this idea of making a film that expresses our friendship,” said Leung, now a sophomore biochemistry major.

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Movie Review: J. Edgar

17 Sunday Feb 2013

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J. Edgar Hoover is one of those unfortunate political figures to whom history has not been especially kind. Is it possible to truly understand anything about a guy who bounces back and forth between paranoid Communist-phobe and cross-dresser in the public eye? But surely there must have been a man behind the mockery. At least, that’s what director Clint Eastwood would have you believe in his skillful, emotional biopic J. Edgar.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the misunderstood title character, aging 50 years in the process with the help of some seriously heavy-duty makeup. The story moves as a series of flashbacks, switching between an aging Hoover dictating his memoirs in the 1970s and a young Hoover rising to power as the groundbreaking director of the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the 1930s.

But make no mistake — this is not the story of J. Edgar Hoover, Crime Fighter. Rather, it is the relationship between Hoover and his longtime associate Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer, best known as the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network) that serves as the emotional and narrative core of the film.

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Disney Channel star trades acting for books

17 Sunday Feb 2013

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Sophomore history and classics double major Lindsey Black, like most college students, has a back-up plan. If earning a Ph.D., traveling to Europe to study and possibly becoming a professor doesn’t work out, Black may end up working as an actress in Hollywood.

If that seems a little bit backward to you, you’re probably not alone. But it’s the truth for Black, who transferred to UC Davis this past fall after spending her high school years starring in the Disney Channel television show “As the Bell Rings” and in the soon-to-be-released feature film 16-Love.

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