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Sororities take another blow; Ellen Page has an awesome case of helmet head
Before you take that pledge…
If you’re thinking of joining a sorority this fall, you might want to avoid watching Hollywood’s depictions of all things Delta Delta Delta. That’s because if a movie has the word “sorority” in the title, you can be pretty sure people are going to die…horribly.
This month’s slasher Sorority Row — starring Audrina Patridge, Rumer Willis and Briana Evigan — joins a long list of horror pics involving girls who have taken the pledge. There’s Sorority House Massacre (1983), Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988), Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell (1990), Sorority House Vampires (1998), Sorority Sister Slaughter (2007), TV’s The Haunting of Sorority Row (2007) and, of course, the film on which this one’s loosely based, 1983’s The House on Sorority Row.
The same can’t be said for movies with “fraternity” in the title. Most of those are raunchy sex comedies. So why does Hollywood have it in for the sisters? Maybe because slashers set in sorority houses make it easier to squeeze in another staple of horror films — hot girls running around in their jammies and underwear.
—Marni Weisz
And, rolling
It’s been almost two years since Juno came out, and we hate to say it but what has Ellen Page done for us lately?
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Ellen Page in Whip It!
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With only the tepidly received Smart People and the Canadian indie The Stone Angel (she had a tiny role) released since Page’s eggo became famously preggo, it’s time for the 22-year-old Halifax native to prove she’s still Queen of the Hollywood Hipsters.
Page looks to do just that next month when Whip It! comes out — even if she has to elbow the competition out of the way.
Marking Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, the dramedy stars Page as Bliss Cavendar, a Texas teen whose mother wants her to join the beauty pageant circuit. Instead, she joins a no-holds-barred roller derby league. Based on the somewhat autobiographical novel Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, the film co-stars Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig and Barrymore herself as Bliss’s awesomely named fellow skaters Dinah Might, Malice in Wonderland and Smashley Simpson.
—Marni Weisz |