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Hysteria
05/15/2012
In director Tanya Wexler's cleverly disarming comedy Hysteria, British actor Hugh Dancy plays Dr. Mortimer Granville, the Victorian physician credited with the invention of the first electric vibrator.
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Hysteria' Director Tanya Wexler Had Difficulty Getting XXX Duck Porno Shot
05/18/2012
While directing Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Hysteria, which is about the invention of the electric vibrator during Victorian England, Tanya Wexler had no trouble getting her highly professional actors to take matters seriously — well, at least not her human actors.
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'Hysteria' Director Tanya Wexler
05/17/2012
Tanya Wexler, the director of Hysteria, answers fans' questions about the film. Read more about Hysteria, starring Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, here: Vibrator Movie 'Hysteria' Excites A Whole Body Of Interests VIDEO: Hugh Dancy And Maggie Gyllenhaal Make Vibrator History In New FIlm Hysteria
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Tribeca Film Festival: Dakota Fanning Among Young Celebrity Jurors
04/18/2012
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival announced its jurors for this year’s festival on Monday and included several of the movie industry's young, up-and-coming stars. Dakota Fanning, 18, The Descendants' Shailene Woodley, 20, and Twilight actor Kellan Lutz, 27, were all named jurors for the New York-based festival.
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BUZZWORTHY: 'Hysteria' Vibrates With History, Hugh Dancy
03/15/2012
Hysteria is one film the entire Tribeca Film Festival will be buzzing about — in more ways than one. Directed by Tanya Wexler, Hysteria stars Hugh Dancy as a Victorian-era doctor attempting to cure women of their, um, afflictions.
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Dakota Fanning, Kellan Lutz Among Young Celebrity Jurors
04/17/2012
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival announced its jurors for this year’s festival on Monday and included several of the movie industry's young, up-and-coming stars. Dakota Fanning, 18, The Descendants' Shailene Woodley, 20, and Twilight actor Kellan Lutz, 27, were all named jurors for the New York-based festival.
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Claire Danes Does Harvard 'Whackadoodle'
01/27/2012
Claire Danes, 32, was at Havard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday, where she was honored as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year. "It was totally bizarre — in the best sense," Danes said, before going on to describe the festivities as a "whackadoodle.
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Hugh Dancy
08/24/2009
He was the tough magazine editor in Confessions of a Shopaholic. Now, Hugh Dancy's taking a different direction playing a mentally handicapped man with a crush on Rose Byrne in Adam.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
11/07/2011
In the eyes of the industry the indie film was for the longest time seen as something akin to the precocious child at the cocktail party. Briefly indulged, mildly patronized, and then swiftly put to bed before the grown-ups got down to the more serious business at hand.
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Rave Reviews For Elizabeth Olsen In 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
10/21/2011
In Martha Marcy May Marlene, the feature debut of director Sean Durkin, Elizabeth Olsen, 22, plays a young woman who escapes a sexually abusive cult. Olsen, who is the younger sister of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, is getting rave reviews for the psychologically complex performance, which pits her opposite actors John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal Buzzes About Hysteria
09/16/2011
Maggie Gyllenhaal, 33, arrived in floor-length white lace Thursday at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of her new film Hysteria, a romantic comedy about the invention of the first electronic vibrator.
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VIDEO: Hugh Dancy And Maggie Gyllenhaal Make Vibrator History In New FIlm Hysteria
08/17/2011
Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention. One invention in particular actually has quite a lot to do with mothers, daughters and their, um, necessities. Just ask actors Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who star in the forthcoming Hysteria, a film by Tanya Wexler set in the Victorian-era about the female orgasm and the very first vibrator.
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
02/26/2009
The majority of women experience an unseen and unheard dialogue between themselves and the item of clothing over which they are salivating. It goes something like this: “Buy me,” purrs the dress, “and I shall make you complete.