Susan Wloszczyna
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In her nearly 24 years at USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna has interviewed everyone from Vincent Price and Shirley Temple to Julia Roberts and Will Smith. Her coverage specialities include animation, musicals, comedies and any film starring Hayley Mills, Sandy Dennis or hobbits. Her crowning career achievements so far, besides having Terence Stamp place his bare feet in her lap during an interview for The Limey, is convincing the paper to send her to New Zealand twice for set visits, once for The Return of the King and the other for The Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong, and getting to be a zombie extra and interview George Romero in makeup on the set for Land of the Dead.
Though not impressive enough for Pulitzer consideration, she also can be blamed for coining the moniker Frat Pack, often used to describe the comedy clique that includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell.
Her positions have included Life section copy desk chief for four years and a film reviewer for 12 years. She is currently a film reporter, focusing on trends and profiles. She previously worked as a feature editor at the Niagara Gazette in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
A Buffalo native, she earned her bachelors degree in English at Canisius College and a masters degree in journalism from Syracuse University.
Articles by Susan Wloszczyna
Bridezillas Hudson and Hathaway
Is it me, or are romantic comedies of late not only tragically unfunny but virulently anti-women as well?
Take Bride Wars. Please! How Anne Hathaway could go from her playing the raw and riveting rehab sis in Rachel Getting Married to a clichéd Bridezilla out to upstage Kate Hudson’s dreadful blonde wig is beyond me.
At least the public rightly decided during the film’s opening weekend that their time would be better spent watching Clint Eastwood as a tobacco-spewing, arms-bearing bigot of a geezer. Read the rest of this entry »
Essays and Features,
News and Previews,
Women on Film
One of our main goals in writing these pieces was to refocus at least some of the attention this summer on other box office achievements besides the bazillions The Dark Knight is collecting. And on how the success of both “Sex and the City” and “Mamma Mia!” are considerable achievements given that much of their grosses were contributed by female moviegoers, proving we aren’t just a niche group. Read the rest of this entry »
Essays and Features,
News and Previews,
Women on Film
It’s hard to resist the urge to curtsy upon greeting Cate Blanchett. Australia’s fashionably wrapped gift to superior acting is once more upon England’s throne, in all her regally bedecked and bewigged glory, in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Read more
Uncategorized
Almost all the attempts to reach the female tween audience at the movies haven’t caught on of late, from The Babysitter’s Club to Traveling Pants. They just don’t speak to young girls as much as they do marketing concerns. Read the rest of this entry »
Essays and Features,
Women on Film
Setting Travolta fans straight about John’s upcoming “Hairspray” performance, Susan Wloszczyna reports in USA Today, Travolta a year to agree to play super-do mama Edna Turnblad. “The problem wasn’t…playing a woman. It was…competing with his twentysomething self.” more
Essays and Features,
Women on Film
In USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna delves into the fantastic world of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth, where magical creatures have mythic meaning, and it takes a wise and very determined little girl to find her way through their mysteries and the maze in which they dwell.
Essays and Features
