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Spielberg admits to softening the lesbian relationship in Alice Walker's acclaimed novel for his 1985 film adaptation of The Color Purple.

Rooney Mara, who plays Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film adaptation, dishes all the details about her transformation to become the androgynous, bisexual computer hacker in Vogue’s November issue.

As anticipation for the film adaptation of the hit book The Hunger Games continues to rise, EW releases this striking cover featuring up and coming star Jennifer Lawrence in character for the lead role, Katniss Everdeen. Spoiler alert: She's one smokin' broad with a bow and arrow.

MTV announced their first-ever top 10 list of best films for 2011 with the US adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo taking the top spot. Throughout the week, MTV has been counting down their top ten movies on air, with Rooney Mara appearing on the final show to accept the award for best movie.

Academy Award-nominated actress Susannah York, star of the controversial 1968 lesbian triangle drama, The Killing of Sister George, has died from cancer at age 72.  Two years last York took part in the film adaptation of the play The Killing of Sister George with Coral Browne and Beryl Reid. The lesbian sex scene between Browne's and York's characters was deemed so explicit that the film received an X rating at the time in the United States and was banned or censored in several countries.

Entertainment legend Barbra Streisand is in negotiations to direct and star in a new film adaptation of the classic stage musical Gypsy. Streisand would play Mama Rose, considered one of the most challenging roles in theater. Reidel reports Arthur Laurents, librettist for Gypsy, has given his approval to Streisand, whom he directed in her first Broadway musical in 1961, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and for whom he wrote the beloved 1973 film romance The Way We Were. 

For the showtune lovers among us... Barbra Streisand confirms that she will play Mama Rose, the ultimate stage mother, in a new film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical Gypsy. With difficult songs such as "Rose's Turn" and "Everything's Coming Up Roses," the role of Mama Rose is one of the most challenging in musical theater. It has previously been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Linda Lavin, Bernadette Peters, and Patti LuPone. In previous film versions Rose has been portrayed by Rosalind Russell and Bette Midler.

Finally, Hollywood is adapting Patricia Highsmith’s pre-Lolita 1952 lesbian road trip novel The Price of Saltinto a film. And the amazing news is that it will star Oscar winner Cate Blanchett as Carol the older, wealthy married woman who falls in love with a young woman who aspires to be a theater set designer but who works in a department store. Mia Wasikowska, star of Albert Nobbs, The Kids are All Right’sandJane Eyre, will play Therese, the younger woman.

Do you and your partner have kids? Or are you just kids at heart. SheWired's lesbian parenting column Out with Baby is offering a chance to win tickets to a screening of Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved book Where the Wild Things Are...plus other fun WTWTA prizes. Enter to win now!

The Amazing Amazon has been grabbing headlines since the announcement that Warner Bros. Television commissioned David E. Kelley to pen the pilot script for a possible new Wonder Woman tv series.  Excitement was high after the initial announcement and Wonder Woman began trending almost immediately on Yahoo. After several attempts to launch feature film adaptations of the Amazon Princess failed, including one by Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly creator Joss Whedon, fans rejoiced to hear that she could be making a triumphant return to television this fall on NBC. 

Legendary actress, AIDS activist and LGBT icon Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles. She was 79. The Academy Award winner for Butterfield 8, Taylor famously starred in National Velvet when she was an adolescent and later went on to become a darling of Tennessee Wiliams' classics that were made into movies, including in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Paul Newman and Suddenly Last Summer with Montgomery Clift and Katherine Hepburn. Hollywood legend has it that Taylor was the first Hollywood star, male or female, to $1 million for Cleopatra. She also famously sparred with one of the great loves of her life, Richard Burton, in the film adaptation of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.