They're not exactly the Oscars of online, but when this year's Webby nominations came out, we were convinced that Dunham was going to take home yet another award for making Republicans angry in that Obama ad. But lo, the winners were announced this morning, and Lena got beat. By Charlize Theron.
The closest thing the Internet has to its own version of the Oscars now has its nominees and, well, Dunham might have to clear some room on her starting-to-be-very-full shelves: she's been nominated for that Obama video. Yeah, that one.
Today in celebrity news: A Glee star seeks help, Chris Brown makes a slightly awkward Today show appearance, and Lena Dunham likes PDA.
Season two of Girls ended on a — sort of — upbeat note on Sunday after a seriously dark turn, but a call for extras indicates that the HBO hit will be taking a trip to rehab sometime in the third season.
Not a single episode could air during season one without an overanalysis of controversial themes and Dunham's perceived agenda. And so in season two Dunham's agenda was to address controversial themes head-on, or indirectly, but mostly on purpose. Let's discuss.
Goodnight, bittersweet season two of HBO's Girls. You gave us a lot to think about. And now, hope springs new again, because season three could really bring anything.
Last night brought us the season two finale of Girls, an episode with the unusually rom-com-esque title, "Together." It's been an interesting ride this season, full of discomfort and displeasure, cringing and awkwardness for characters and viewers alike, and this 30-minute season ender was no exception.
Even though she called it "Kindergarten reading material," the magazine synonymous with promoting a certain women's body type asked Dunham to imagine having a perfect body type. But she came prepared.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Sunday's episode of Girls was about pain. Physical, mental, and emotional pain, and all three, together. And most of all, the pain of watching people in pain.
Before the writers' room would have started gathering to help chart out season three, Dunham did some house-cleaning: a number of the staff writers were let go, and there haven't been plans to replace them
"It's Back" is the title of last night's episode of Girls. It refers most obviously to the reappearance of Hannah's OCD. But it's a phrase that applies to nearly every major character on the show in some way or another.
The YouTube video du jour features a young woman doing a spot-on impression of Lena Dunham "trying out" for Jessica Chastain's super-serious role as Maya in Zero Dark Thirty. She is Chelsea Davison, and this is where the whole thing came from.
In a season of Girls which is growing increasingly more interesting and rewarding, last night's episode, "Video Games," shed light on perhaps the most mysterious character of the four ladies, Jessa (Jemima Kirke).
Last night's episode of Girls was titled "Boys." True to its name, it gave us the opportunity to spend more time with Adam, Ray, and Booth Jonathan than we have in any other episode this season, and certainly more time than anyone should ever need to spend with Booth Jonathan.
A new profile reveals that Dunham sees herself as a different breed than the stereotype of her generation. Here are some highlights from the interview, before it drops online.
While everyone was worried about "female breast nipples" and other sexual horrors at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, over on HBO Lena Dunham, star and creator of the acclaimed series Girls, was busy baring it all with impunity. And the Internet went crazy!
Who hasn't wanted to say forget it to the toils and troubles of daily life and instead move into a castle, or brownstone, with a handsome older person who can take care of us and maybe even save our lives?
After a blog alleged that she didn't vote in this election, Dunham took to Twitter to clear up the situation. Maybe.
After the complicated emotions last week's Girls inspired, episode four, "It's a Shame About Ray" — hark, a Lemonheads reference! — went a long way toward redeeming and refocusing the show.
The Girls creator, star, and perennial think-piece subject is developing a series based on the life of Betty Halbreich, personal shopper for Bergdorf Goodman.
If art's great power is making the person who interacts with that art feel something, you could argue that HBO's Girls is highly successful television. But if a TV show consistently makes a watcher feel bad, can it be good?
Today in celebrity gossip: Lena Dunham has said negative things about Rihanna, Bethenny Frankel's divorce gets uglier, and all the Bonds might soon be together.
Lena Dunham and company are far too skilled to simply deliver something that lands right on the nose, as nuanced as an after-school special. Right? Somewhere between parody and reality there is Girls.
Today in celebrity news: Britney may soon have a lucrative deal in Nevada, her sister may soon be engaged, and Lena Dunham and Howard Stern make amends.
Don't look now, and don't blame the bad karaoke, but Lena Dunham really cannot do wrong: According to recent numbers online and off, HBO's Girls has become a kingmaker to just-under-the-radar musicians, sending their record sales abuzz
On a night in which the HBO show won two Golden Globes — Best Television Series and Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series for Lena Dunham — Girls was back with a season premiere. What happened?
When Lena Dunham accepted the award for Best Television Comedy at the Golden Globes on Sunday night — her second win of a big night for Girls — she remembered to thank obscure actor Chad Lowe.
In the second season, Lena Dunham's show is blessedly less concerned with defining an era or a generation and more relaxed in its own particular conventions. And that's a good thing.
The second-season premiere of HBO's Girls arrives Sunday, and along with it comes an outpouring of love from members of the media for its creator and star. But Oates's piece in Vanity Fair takes the take.
So this is how Girls is going to deal with race. And politics. But mostly race.
The most noxious, wrongheaded, misleading, silly, and downright awful pieces of punditry to somehow end up in print or online this year.
Today in celebrity gossip: Lindsay Lohan can't stay away from the club where she got arrested, Anne Hathaway has an "upskirt" moment, and Russell Crowe has a bizarre new girlfriend.
Prepare for over-analysis: Gawker has gotten a hold of a copy of Lena Dunham's $3 million-plus book proposal.
The show we can't stop talking about no matter how hard we try is coming back in January, and creator/star/generally controversial person Lena Dunham posted a trailer for the show's second season from her Twitter feed just now.
Esquire's Q&A with Lena Dunham in its December issue is getting plenty of attention. It's not because the Girls creator/writer/director said anything particularly illuminating or scandalous. It's because we found out that Dunham rides around Manhattan in a chauffeured Mercedes.
As the outrage train over Lena Dunham's Obama ad rolls on, Eric Kleefeld at Talking Points Memo dug up something that might confuse disgusted conservatives: Ronald Reagan also made a voting as first sexual experience joke, and his was dirtier.
President Obama teamed up with the most divisive 26-year-old in the world to make a suggestive ad encouraging young people to vote, but it seems to have upset some old conservative men on Twitter.
Today in celebrity news: J&J will be tying the knot in Italy any moment now, someone's scolding Lena Dunham for something once again, and Uma Thurman gave her daughter a crazy name.
Lena Dunham's advice is worth upwards of $3.5 million, the reported amount that Random House paid the creator and star of Girls to write her first book, a collection of advice-based essays called Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned. While the effort already has its detractors (see: Gawker), there is reason to believe it will work. Why? Her Twitter account.
Today in celebrity gossip, someone is sending threatening packages to Dancing With the Stars addressed to Bristol Palin. Also: Beyonce surprises Jay-Z, Snooki stays home, and David marries Amber.
Today in books and publishing: Girls creator has inked a huge deal; Wikileaks founder has a book deal; and uncertainty over Penguin's future ownership.
Today in books and publishing: Figures keep climbing in Dunham deal speculation; Fifty Shades spoof targeted; McNally Robinson stores change hands; Amazon keeps adaptations in-house.
Lena Dunham, the over-sharing darling of television and media, is shopping a book proposal "set to go for a minimum $1 million."
Two young rising stars find love with each other, Anna Wintour prepares for the debut of a rival's magazine, and Pippa Middleton continues to take New York.
Oh Lena Dunham! Is she a true artiste, a flash-in-the-pan fascination, or a repackaged Candace Bushnell come to usher in a whole new terrible era of self-involvement? It turns out she's really none of those things.
Fresh off a personal essay about the emotional turmoil wrought by a gay ex-boyfriend's mother un-friending her on Facebook, Lena Duham has now taken over for Jason Schwartzman by becoming The New Yorker's app spokeskid.
Open the latest New Yorker and you'll find that Hannah Horvath has finally made it you'll be able to read about Lena Dunham's emotional tailspin when she found out an ex-boyfriend's mom un-friended her on Facebook two years to the day after breaking up with her gay son.
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Today: Lifetime gets some new housekeepers, there's been a change in the summer movie schedule, and Lena Dunham is giving herself a hot new man.
The Atlantic Wire's Jen Doll talks about the season finale of Girls with The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff for The Guardian.
Girls may be the one show that we, as a collective TV-watching presence, have had the most to say about this season. It's left a mark.
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