Women are just another Hollywood trend

If you’re anything like me, then you probably like reading depressing statistics about the state of “women in film” and then whipping yourself into apoplexies of rage about it all. Fortunately it’s been a banner year for discussions on that front, since the 2013 cinema landscape is one so heavily populated by men that in a Freudian typo I just wrote “ladscape”.

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Diddy claims he’s joining Downton

Music mogul and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs will not be appearing in British period TV drama Downtown Abbey, US broadcaster PBS said, despite tweets saying he would be joining the hit show’s upcoming season. Diddy set social media abuzz after posts on his verified Twitter account said, “MY BIG NEWS: So happy to announce that Im a series regular on DOWNTON ABBEY-my favorite show+i’ll be debuting a sneak peek tonight 12am PST!.” He even tweeted a photo of him in a 1920’s suit.

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UK set for three-way iPhone price war

Vodafone on Tuesday announced it would start selling Apple’s popular iPhone in the UK from early next year, in a move that should bolster efforts to turnround the mobile operator’s ailing British business. It means there will be three UK mobile operators selling the US technology company’s iPhone from next year: Vodafone, Orange and O2.

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