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Top Five Biopics that Depict Wrenching Struggles of Women Artists

Ever heard you have to suffer for your art? Well, Deborah gives us some women artists who suffered more than their share.

Bethany’s Top Five Important but not Immediately Obvious No-nos on a First Date: Recommendations from a Straight Woman to Straight Men

Well, who doesn’t like some free advice?

Top Five Philadelphia Apocalypses

Philadelphia has been described as a “stabilized ruin,” which is true and adds to its rough charm. But it also seems to be ground zero for a number of end-of-the-world scenarios. Let’s have a look at a few.

Bethany’s Top Five Top Five (or More) Lists I Wish I’d Written, But Didn’t!

As prolific as she is, our senior staff writer Bethany still sometimes gets a little green when she sees the lists other (lesser) talents come up with. Here are a few.

Top Five Recent Romantic Comedies that in which a Couple has Kid Via Sperm Donor/One-night Stand

We’ll bet you never realized what a tried and true formula this is. Check out some of the top examples of Rom Coms where romance blooms from unplanned pregnancies (this is fantasy, after all).

Top Five Songs about Interracial Romance

Share 5. “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas 4. “White Boys/Black Boys” from the musical Hair 3. “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones 2. “China Girl” by David Bowie 1. “Vanilla Ice Cream” by Stephen Lynch

Top Five List of Top Ten Lists

Share Here at E-Verse, we get a little obsessed with lists. Our Top Fives are a staple and certainly more efficient than the top tens or twenty lists. Who has so much time these days to read a top twenty? TIme and Newsweek have been big on lists over the past few years and it [...]

Top Five Roles in which Julianne Moore Plays a Troubled Mid-20th-Century Housewife

Typecasting? Maybe it’s to soon to tell. Maybe she simply excels at that sort of role, a smoldering woman in the supposedly stifling Eisenhower years.

Invasion USA: Top Five Movies/TV Shows Depicting the US Being Invaded by Other Countries or by Aliens

Share 5. War of the Worlds: The radio program, as narrated by Orson Wells and based on H.G. Wells’ novel, was the original invasion USA event, since many thought he was narrating actual events, rather than a fictional account. But Spielberg’s 2005 adaptation does a good job of showing the terror of an invading force [...]

Bethany’s Top Five Mythic Works about the Confederacy

Share Confederate History Month has been declared! It’s in April. There seems to be a growing trend to celebrate this holiday, and it is becoming more controversial, too. But I say let’s take a look at some of the great and glorious achievements of the Confederacy, and judge for ourselves whether or not it’s a [...]

Top Five People Who Died Just Before Fame Struck (including Two Lar[r]sons)

Share 5. Adrienne Shelly: She wrote, directed, and acted in the movie Waitress (2007), which would become her most successful film to date after years of making highly regarded but little-seen indie films. Waitress was her first foray into the limelight. She was murdered several months before its release. 4. Sylvia Plath: She enjoyed minor [...]

Top Five Examples of the Insidious Creep of Blue/orange Art into Our Lives

Share Wait, what are we talking about? OK, in sum: For various reasons, Hollywood has been increasingly using the blue/orange pallet in films. This kind of adjustment is easy now that everything is digital. It’s particularly pronounced in advertisements and movie trailers. You may not have noticed this yet, but once it’s been pointed out [...]

Top Five Sets of People who Died on the Same Day

We did people born on the same day, same year. Now it’s time for people who died on the same day, same year.

Bethany’s Top Five Flat-chested TV Actresses Who Would Never Make it Today

In these days of routine breast implants it’s pretty standard to see quite large breasted women, and getting increasingly rare to see women with smaller cup sizes on TV and in movies. I was recently watching some old TV and shocked at the differences: you just so seldom see such flat chested women on TV today (with the exception of Debra Messing).

Bethany Gives us Top Five Strange (Yes, Strange!) Sexual Fetishes I Have Heard About

Doubtless there are many I haven’t heard about, but here are the five strangest.

Top Five Recent Examples of “Gingerism,” that is, Prejudice Against Redheads

Share 5. Musical artist M.I.A. just made this video dramatizing racism by featuring violence against redheads. 4. Kick a Ginger Day: Inspired by a South Park episode centered around promoting prejudice against those with red hair, some kids started a Facebook group called “Kick a Ginger Day.” Then, inspired by this, a bunch of kids [...]

Top Five Famous Couples with Similar Names

At least they don’t look alike, most of the time . . .

Top Five Notorious Japanese Murderers

Top Five Types of Female Leads in Romantic Comedies

We did the male leads last week. Now let’s have a look at their female counterparts.

Top Five Variations on the Word “Anorexia”

Remember a time when we didn’t even know there was such a thing as an eating disorder? Now, there are lots of other disorders that have been named by creating a portmanteau word with anorexia. Here are a few of them.

Top Five Types of Male Leads in Romantic Comedies (And There are Only Five

How many could there be, anyway? Find out what they are.

Top (Most Prominent) Five Roles in Which Actors of European Descent Played Asians

You’d never dream of doing it now, but it wasn’t terribly uncommon for major actors, Caucasian all, to portray Asian characters.

Top Five TV Stars You May Not Have Known are Latino/Latina

Thanks to E-Verser Michael for sending this one in.

Top Five Obama Imitators

Share 5. Some Japanese performers 4. Some guy whose got the voice down cold 3. Gerardo Puisseaux 2. Fred Armisen 1. Luis Ortiz Plus a summary from CNN

Bethany’s Top Five Weird Bras

Share 5. A bra made out of man hands 4. A bra made of bacon! (Though it appears to be raw bacon. WTF? Only an animal would eat raw bacon! And that thought in this context makes me uncomfortable!) 3. The Clap Bra. Clap on! Clap off! Actually, I think it’s just Clap Off. 2. [...]

Top Five Stock Sound Effects and Why They are Usually Wrong

Share 5. The Wilhelm Scream. It’s become an in-joke in Hollywood among soundmen. 4. Red-Tailed Hawk You hear it in any scene with eagles, or any time there’s a scary bird. 3. Kookaburra You hear it in every jungle scene ever, but it’s only in Australia. 2. Telephone: remember when they actually sounded like this? [...]

Top Five Things with Names for which “Jew” is an Adjective (by Bethany, who is Jewish)

Share 5. Jew’s Meat What is it? Mind out of the gutter, people. Jew’s meat was a medieval term for mushrooms. Why is it called that? Dunno. My best guess is that Jews were stereotypically considered to be poor or stingy so ate mushrooms instead of real meat. Or possibly that because of kosher laws, [...]

Top Five Sets of National Flags Frequently Confused with One Another

Share 5. Mexico, Italy 4. Puerto Rico, Texas, Chile, Cuba 3. Kuwait, Palestine, Jordan 2. Austria, Peru 1. Russia, the Netherlands, France Bonus: Ireland and India Bonus Bonus: Denmark, Switzerland, and England

Ernie and Bethany’s Top Five Movie Pimps

Share 5. Very Young Girls (2007): In this heartbreaking documentary, we meet real pimps, who are men in their 30s and 40s. They drive around looking for 12 or 13 year old girls who look pretty and forlorn or damaged in some way, walking to school. They entice them, charm them, act as boyfriend, declare [...]

Top Actors Who Performed in Humiliatingly Schlocky Roles

We all have to pay the bills . . .