Sigourney Weaver

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"Baby Mama's" Amy Poehler has upended the old stereotypes about women and comedy -- and added a few fart jokes.
By Rebecca Traister Apr 25, 2008

  • Asperger's: Hollywood's new black?

    Films like "Adam" present autism-spectrum characters as real people. Cool! But do the movies have to be so lame?
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 29, 2009

  • "Snow Cake"

    Sigourney Weaver plays a woman with autism in this sad little film. Let the awards roll in.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 27, 2007

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Verhoeven's "Black Book" is an outrageous tale of vengeance, treachery and sexual desire. Plus: Duchovny and Weaver play for laffs.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 5, 2007

  • The horror, the horror

    The new director's cut of "Alien" reminds us the film is a powerful purveyor of existential dread, not just haunted-house thrills.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 1, 2003

  • Desperately seeking Susan

    Susan Sarandon, that is. And Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Lange and Debra Winger and the rest of the '80s Hollywood stars who are so much sexier than the bottle-blond Sarahs and Gwyneths and Camerons of today.
    By Laura Warrell October 1, 2003

  • "Holes"

    Aided by Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight as evil grown-ups, this adaptation of the beloved children's book crackles with un-Harry-like life.
    By Laura Miller April 18, 2003

  • "The Guys"

    Sigourney Weaver shines as a writer who helps a New York fire captain, played by Anthony LaPaglia, find the words to remember the men he lost on Sept. 11.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 4, 2003

  • "Tadpole"

    A wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a Mrs. Robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 24, 2002

  • A bounty of dewlaps and drooping hooters

    To what do we owe this fixation in the media on ripening women?
    By Carina Chocano August 6, 2001

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, July 18, 2001
    By Joyce Millman July 18, 2001

  • "Alien"

    Don't call Ridley Scott a hack. Who else can make a cat hiss on cue the way he can?
    By Max Garrone April 2, 2001

  • "Alien 3"

    David Fincher can't decide if his movie is about survival or death and ends up with a schizophrenic mess. Sigourney Weaver just wanted more money.
    By Max Garrone March 28, 2001

  • The week in dirt

    A pastor's memo to Britney Spears, the Teletubbies' weight loss program, Jerry Springer vies for a post in the House of Lords and Julia Roberts gets a hand in the men's room.
    March 28, 2001

  • "Heartbreakers"

    A sexpot farce starring Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
    By Charles Taylor March 23, 2001

  • "Alien Resurrection"

    Icky babies, Ripley reborn and bombastic special effects, but the extras here are strictly commercial.
    By Max Garrone March 22, 2001

  • Streisand: Stallone's mom's butt prints are hot!

    Babs thinks there's a movie in Mrs. Rocky's Rumpology; Springer wants a lordship; Bullock says her chest is where it's at; and Sigourney Weaver might sing for her food.
    By Amy Reiter March 21, 2001

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, March 20, 2001
    By Joyce Millman March 20, 2001

  • "Company Man"

    There's nothing worse than a bad farce -- except for this Cuban missile crisis comedy that wastes talent like Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Alan Cumming.
    By Charles Taylor March 9, 2001

  • "Aliens"

    The maternal instinct meets the Vietnam War. Plus: How to make your own face-hugging space creatures.
    By Max Garrone February 14, 2001

  • "Sopranos" preview? Fuhgeddaboudit!

    John "Artie" Ventimiglia isn't squealing; Trump signs on for some richly repulsive reality TV. Plus: Sigourney Weaver zaps an "Aliens 5" rumor and, oh brother, Clooney isn't seeing Kidman.
    By Amy Reiter February 9, 2001

  • Ben Affleck: "I hope Nader can still sleep"

    The Oscar-winning actor, Tina Brown, Sigourney Weaver and others share the Election Night suspense with Salon.
    By Amy Reiter November 8, 2000

  • Amazon.comrade

    Sigourney Weaver spills the beans on the unexpurgated "Galaxy Quest" and explains how her work in Roman Polanski's neglected "Death and the Maiden" fueled her powerhouse acting in "A Map of the World."
    By Michael Sragow February 3, 2000

  • Sprout, sprout, let it all out

    Winslet denies pernicious vegetable rumor; Kutcher accuses pants of indiscretion; and Ben Stein just wants to say, "Hey, thanks!" to the guys who mugged him.
    By Amy Reiter January 14, 2000

  • "Punch" Bradley, "Judy" Gore and the injustice being done John Rocker

    How about those Titans? Duchess Hillary sheds crocodile tears; McCain's creepy; Monica acquires rueful thoughtfulness; and you just can't beat that androgynous Hayley Mills in "The Parent Trap."
    By Camille Paglia January 12, 2000
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