Last week’s season 4 premiere of creator Lena Dunham’s “Girls” took a disastrous -40% nosedive over the previous season — the worst ever premiere for the series. This week, when compared to last season, the HBO show is still sinking.
The centerpiece of “Triggering” has a room full of Hannah Horvath’s peers reciting various real-world critiques of Lena Dunham, sounding pretentious and shallow as they put her writing through the wringer. And yet, to her credit, Dunham balances it with even more self-effacing–depicting herself as thin-skinned, deceptive, selfish, and out of her depth.
What was supposed to be Her Year has in fact turned out to be five-alarm disaster for Lena Dunham, the creator of HBO’s “Girls.” A year ago, closing out 2014 had to look pretty exciting to the 28 year-old.
It’s called “The B.S. Report.” But ESPN’s Bill Simmons never bothered to call B.S., or even ask a challenging question, during his hour-plus interview with “Girls” star and “Not That Kind of Girl” author Lena Dunham.
Despite the kind of publicity and hysteria usually reserved for big-budget summer films, Lena Dunham’s HBO dramedy “Girls” earned its worst premiere ratings to date with a paltry (even for “Girls”) 680,000 viewers. By comparison, season 3 debuted to 1.1
HBO’s Girls continues to walk a dichotomous tightrope: its sympathy for bubble-dwelling white Millennial princesses and its simultaneous recognition of the people who find their entitlement repulsive.
During Sunday night’s season premiere of HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham and company once again pushed the boundaries with a racy sex scene in which Allison Williams was on the receiving end of… well… the receiving end. The show’s cast seemingly
HBO’s Lena Dunham spoke with Ryan Seacrest Sunday evening during a red carpet interview at the Golden Globes, where she disclosed she has deleted the Twitter app from her phone to “create a safer space” for her emotional state.
Oprah Winfrey’s controversial civil rights drama “Selma” and the now-discredited Lena Dunham were the big losers at last night’s Golden Globe awards. Despite the fact both earned more than one nomination in big categories, except for “Selma’s” Best Original Song
For 6 weeks to two months Lena Dunham and her publisher Random House knowingly allowed an innocent man (we identify as Barry One) to twist in the wind under a false accusation of rape. You wouldn’t know that, though, from
A few days ago, director and Hollywood darling Judd Apatow went on a Twitter rant against Bill Cosby. The Washington Post wrote, “Apatow’s outspokenness is rare among entertainment industry figures, who have remained largely silent on the allegations that have swirled around Cosby for years but have reached a fever pitch over the last several months.”
Using an early book proposal submitted by Lena Dunham that contains vastly different details about her alleged rapist than what was eventually published in her memoir “Not That Kind of Girl,” Gawker claimed Tuesday to have found Dunham’s alleged rapist
In a lengthy BuzzFeed essay published Tuesday, feminist powerhouse Lena Dunham described as a “surreal coincidence” the fact that a number of details in her non-fiction memoir point to an innocent man as her rapist. “[A]ny resemblance to a person
On Sunday’s “MediaBuzz” on the Fox News Channel, Daily Beast columnist Ana Marie Cox argued that recent reporting that calls details of a claimed sexual assault in Lena Dunham’s recent memoir “Not That Kind of Girl” into question “tarnishes” Dunham’s credibility.
In her new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham exposed graphic details of a “mustachioed Republican,” who she referred to only as “Barry,” claiming that he raped her while she attended Oberlin College in Ohio. Dunham, while admitting to
Comedienne Lena Dunham, who has been the topic of recent controversy, has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for best actress for her performance in Girls. The nominee is currently embroiled in a public dispute after passages from her new
Let me open by saying that most of the mainstream and entertainment media have handled the Lena Dunham/Barry One story quite fairly. And throughout the week, we have published as many of those pieces as possible. The examples below are notable
Yesterday at 4:11 p.m. ET, Eugene Volokh at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog sharply criticized Time.com’s Eliza Berman for not being “quite fair” — i.e., being quite unfair, given the author’s penchant for understatement — to Breitbart.com’s John Nolte, the reporter who
Just minutes after the release of Barry One’s statement where he asks Lena Dunham why, when she knew her memoir had placed him under a false suspicion of rape, she didn’t clear his name immediately, Dunham posted an Instagram of
According to a statement released Tuesday by Barry One’s attorney Aaron Minc, they have been “contacting Random House and Ms. Dunham since October 6, 2014, seeking an apology and exoneration.” It was only this week that Random House finally exonerated
Writing for Bloomberg Politics, Dave Weigel writes of how “sensitivity to rape victims might have led to flawed reporting” from the likes of Rolling Stone. He goes on to credit Breitbart News for “doing its own reporting” which in part
Eugene Volokh, of the Washington Post blog The Volokh Conspiracy, takes to task a TIME article accusing Breitbart News’ John Nolte of attempting to disprove the claim that Lena Dunham was raped. The TIME piece in question states: Following the
NEW YORK (AP) — A section from Lena Dunham’s “Not That Kind of Girl” that recounts an alleged assault while she was in college is being changed to make clear that the assailant’s name is a pseudonym. Random House announced
This article was originally published by jonathanturley.org There are two separate controversies this week over rape stories that have been challenged by critics. Both stories involve leading U.S. universities. Unlike the Duke Lacrosse controversy, neither school is accused of wrongdoing. Rolling Stone
The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2015 out-of-competition premieres and documentary premieres sections Monday in Utah. The film premiers will tackle a few subjects that are sure to spark some controversy. This year’s lineup features titles including James Franco’s I
