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Don't be shy . . . It's time to talk sex toys! And Hysteria director Tanya Wexler is writing us a prescription for pleasure. Tanya's film — what she calls "the vibrator movie you can bring your mom to" — is in limited release and stars Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rupert Everett. When working on a romantic comedy that centers around the invention of the vibrator, you end up with some Read more
Hysteria, out today in limited release, takes a peek under the big hoop skirts of Victorian-era women and their now defunct "medical condition" of hysteria — cured only by a doctor-administered "paroxysm," otherwise known as an orgasm. The business of pleasuring the ladyfolk has a long and interesting history, so let's look at how we got from "the Manipulator" to "the Rabbit." Read more
Hysteria, a movie from director Tanya Wexler, is currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival before its theatrical release on May 18. The story, which is based on real-life events, centers on the 1880s-era doctor who invented the vibrator to treat hysterical female patients, and I had a chance to check out the film and bring you the details. Who's behind it? The film was helmed by Wexler, Read more
Maggie Gyllenhaal is on a roll with her sexual exploration. Not only did she recently host a show about the female orgasm, she's starring in Hysteria about the history of the vibrator and is dishing that she gave vibrators to her co-workers. In efforts to loosen everyone up on set she handed out sex toys to the cast and crew, and since she was sent a plethora of vibrators for her role in the Read more
Yup, you read that title correctly. In Hysteria, Hugh Dancy plays a Victorian-era doctor who is up to his elbows (um, kind of literally) trying to cure women of "hysteria," which, in this case, seems to be a fancy way of saying aroused and/or sexually frustrated. To make the relief process easier, he and his partner (Rupert Everett) invent the first vibrator with the help of some electricity and Read more
Hysteria, the upcoming Victorian-era rom-com staring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, and Rupert Everett, takes on the creation of the first vibrator. The trailer is out today, and it look likes Hugh Dancy, who plays the inventor-doctor, doesn't hold back in his pursuit of female pleasure. By failing to acknowledge women as sexual, our prudish Victorian-era ancestors took part in something we Read more
No need to blush, so let's just come out with it: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy have signed on for Hysteria, a Victorian-era indie rom-com about the invention of the vibrator (definitely not your traditional romantic comedy). Dancy will play a doctor who treats women suffering from an acute case of so-called "hysteria," an affliction of the time marked by "irritability, anger, or unexplained Read more
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard welcomed daughter Gloria Ray Sarsgaard two weeks ago, and the happy trio took a walk yesterday near their Brooklyn home. The little one was bundled up and carried on her dad Peter's chest, protected from the rain. Gloria's big sister Ramona wasn't able to join in on the fun, since it was a school day. Maggie's brother Jake was in the Big Apple around Gloria's Read more
Claire Danes donned a pink Narciso Rodriguez dress yesterday to support her husband Hugh Dancy at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his movie Hysteria. The couple are usually press-shy and didn't pose for any pictures together. Hugh was one of the only members of his movie's cast to attend. His leading lady, Maggie Gyllenhaal, is expecting her second child in the coming weeks with husband Read more
