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Last weekend, 17-year-old, Marietta, Ga. native Melanie Oudin beat 24-year-old, sixth-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic in a surprise upset at Wimbledon. Earlier this year, Jankovic was ranked No. 1 in the world. This is Oudin's first Wimbledon. After the match, Oudin scored critical praise for her ability to get herself out of scrappy ...

''Everything's falling apart.'' So begins the first episode of HBO's Hung, a new dramatic comedy that premieres this Sunday, June 28, at 10 p.m. The opening shots highlight downtown Detroit's urban blight, and the economic downturn serves as backdrop for the tale of a man who takes desperate measures to survive financial hardship. Because it's ...

I'd heard about The September Issue, a documentary that screened at Sundance, now slated for an August 28 release, that goes behind the scenes at Vogue and focuses in particular on editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, she of the unmessable bob. The trailer makes the film look better than I'd expected ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.) 

Author J. Robert Lennon has a very amusing and delightfully honest story in the Los Angeles Times, ''The Truth About Writers,'' that answers any gnawing questions you may have had regarding exactly what writers are doing with all that time in which they claim to be writing. Writing? Mmmm. Not exactly. In fact, most of their writing time is ...

Yes, Dana, you're absolutely right that the Neda video, in which a young Iranian woman is shot and killed during the post-election protests, is a snuff movie. ''And the fact that 'Neda' is a young and pretty woman'' has absolutely played a part in the YouTube clip's rise to infamy. This isn't to diminish the content of it. It is a horrifying, ...

Why is The Real Housewives of New Jersey a smash-hit? The season finale's 4.6 million viewers in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic testify to its broad appeal, but why are we so enamored with these table-tossing housewives? Is it the big hair? The brash talk? The back stabbing? One thing's for sure. It's not their manners. Out of all the Real ...

Generally, I try to avoid advertiser-created viral videos like the plague. Created by corporations, they tend to make me feel duped into watching them, whether they're any good or not. But I found a new series of viral videos by Tampax to be unusually amusing and surprisingly endearing. At Zack16.com, 16-year-old Zack Johnson wakes up to find ...

Earlier this month, an Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz, undertook an intriguing experiment. What would happen if, instead of traditional journalists, novelists and poets wrote the news?... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

I have a strange fascination with Eliot Spitzer. There, I said it. It's true. I suppose that's in part due to the fact that when Spitzergate roared its way into the headlines, I was running a project in which I was (for reasons that now escape me) collecting e-mails from men who had paid for sex about why they had paid for sex. Spitzer was one ...

Meghan: After watching Steven Soderbergh's call-girl movie, The Girlfriend Experience, starring adult film star Sasha Grey, you ask: ''Can Sasha Grey really liberate herself—and other women—through porn?'' My answer? Um, no? But first things first. I thought the movie was great. I liked it more than most, who, like you, found it to be ...