There are many storytelling tropes that movies like to use because it's easier for the writers to turn to them than to try and subvert all expectations. The manic pixie dream girl is a popular trope.

Deschanel is known for playing whimsical characters, but believes the Hollywood trope is a way of "making a woman one-dimensional" Kelly Wynne has been a TV writer at PEOPLE digital since 2021. Her ...

Not too long ago, I took to the cyberpages of Salon to apologize for creating the phrase "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" and to call for its death ('cause if you're not going to be ridiculously hyperbolic, ...

You could say Ojai is the town built on tangerines, but that wouldn’t be entirely true. The resort spa town roughly 90 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles was well-established before the citrus ...

In a satirical new video, a suit-clad man clandestinely meets with a prostitute in a hotel room, hoping that she will fulfill the fantasy that his wife can’t give him. But it’s not a kinky sexual ...