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Recent Media Pieces
Here are some cool pieces that I was interviewed for: Oscar Watch: The Most Powerful Women Of The 2011 Academy Awards — ForbesWoman Pre-Oscar Radio piece from Uptown radio Feminism, Film and...
Thelma and Louise and What Could Have Been
When you spend so much time online one thing that suffers is off line reading. So, I am perpetually playing catch up to things that can’t be read online. One of the pieces I just caught up with is...
Happy 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Here’s to hoping there is a time when women are treated equally. When we don’t have to fight twice as hard for half the pie. For girls to be able to go to school without regard for being...
Are We Equals?
With Daniel Craig- voice over by Dame Judi Dench. Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. AWESOME
Check Out Tina Brown’s First Newsweek Cover
Bold move. The first female Newsweek editor puts a woman (Hillary Clinton) on her first cover. Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and in honor of that, Newsweek has a...
Opening Night at the Athena Film Festival
Pepsico’s WIN (Women’s Inspiration Network) was one of the sponsors of the Athena Film Festival. They took some great footage and edited together short pieces throughout the weekend. Here’s the...
The Girls on Film Presents The Town
It’s not like Hollywood is pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes when it comes to the gender disparity. But these young men and women have taken it to a whole different level. I got turned onto to...
Catherine Hardwicke Walked Away From New Moon
They has been much speculation as to whether Catherine Hardwicke was fired or walked away from the Twilight sequel, New Moon. But nobody ever heard from Catherine Hardwicke what actually happened. In...
Emily Blunt Does Not Want To Be The Girlfriend in a Comic Book Film
I could not love this young woman anymore. Everything I’ve seen her in has been fantastic. If you haven’t seen her debut in My Summer of Love you are missing something. She’s been on the junket...
The Culture Wars Are Back: Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman For Being Single and Pregnant
The steam is coming out of my ears. It’s like deja vu. Twenty years ago we had Dan Quayle going after Candice Bergen on Murphy Brown and now we have Mike Huckabee going after...
Julie Taymor Talks About The Struggle With Spiderman
Julie Taymor has been in NY working non-stop on trying to get the Spiderman Musical to a place where it can finally open. The knives have been out for some time for many reasons. One, this is the...
Three Vie for Next Female Franchise
Variety reported yesterday that three Oscar nominated young actresses Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Jennifer Lawrence are all in the race to play the lead in The Hunger Games based on the...
More Good News on Bridesmaids
This film is shaping up to be the one of the movies I am most looking forward to seeing this year. Now I know that it is a movie about a wedding, and I have said that I would be perfectly fine with...
Angelina Jolie in Afghanistan
Bravo for her to keep raising awareness about the plight of refugees. It’s heartening that not everyone in the world knows who she is and that she could care less. At the end of the piece the...
Guest Post: Premiering Yelling to the Sky at the Berlin Film Festival by Victoria Mahoney
The freakiest thing about indie filmmakers is that we are bred and conditioned for harsh news. We wake up to 32,000 “nos” a day, and self-preservation protects us from the ambush of let down. We...
Applications Now Open for Women in Film Finishing Fund
Hey lady filmmakers- if your film is ready to go but you can’t raise that last bit to finish it, you should apply to the Women in Film Finishing Fund sponsored by Netflix. You could get a grant of...
Trailer Watch: Miral
The updated trailer — film will open in the US this spring
The Dirty Little Secret in Hollywood
There is a power disparity in Hollywood. A big one. The men have got it. It is never more evident when one of the most high profile people exhibits behavior that makes the whole country and society...
Guest Post: Whither the Feminist Comedy Fan? by Emilie Spiegel
Last week’s 30 Rock raised a lot of questions about the messy and complicated relationship between feminism and comedy. As Rebecca Traister at Salon notes, it’s laudable to see a major network...
Actress Rosamund Pike Talks About Women (in Film) and Ambition
This is from the launch of the Bird’s Eye View Film Festival. The festival is in London from March 8–17.
Tilda a No Go at HBO
This is the second Diane Keaton project that has not made it to series at HBO. First was the Marti Noxon pilot script where she was to play a “Gloria Steinem” like magazine editor who starts a...
Spend International Women’s Day at an Event Honoring Kathryn Bigelow
This is an open invitation to the community of women in Hollywood. You don’t have to be a DGA member. You are crazy if you do not go. I would like someone to cover it for Women and Hollywood.