"barbara-cox-anthony-woman-of-the-year-award" Articles & Blogs:
WAAI founder Lorraine Schultz receives prestigious Woman of the Year Award
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Lorraine Schultz, founder and CEO of the Women's Automotive Association International (WAAI), has been chosen the 2010 recipient of Manheim's prestigious Barbara Cox Anthony Woman of the Year Award. The award, presented at the Northwood University brea...[Read on] |
Carrie Underwood Rules Country Music Awards
| For the first time in almost a decade, a woman wins the top honor in the boys club of the ACMsCarrie Underwood | Today 10:55 amCarrie Underwood won Entertainer of the Year at last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards, the first woman to win the t...[Read on] |
Female composer nominated for Ivor Novello Award
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Here’s a topic that I don’t focus enough on: women who write music for films. Suffice it to say there are not a lot of them. One of the most well known is Rachel Portman who was the first female to win an Academy Award for Emma in 1996. Another on...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Steinberg Playwright Awards
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It’s not enough to have clear statistics about how women are discriminated in theatre, but now a new award — The Steinberg Playwright Awards — given to “emerging” playwrights has decided that there is no woman good enough to qualify as emerging....[Read on] |
Brooke Astor's Son's Trial in Full Swing
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Opening statements begin today in the trial of Anthony Marshall who is accused of bilking the Alzheimer-stricken Astor out of millionsBrooke Astor Trial | Today 10:40 am
Opening statements begin today in the criminal trial of the 84-year-old son of belo...[Read on] |
What the Gotham Independent Film Awards Giveth, the Spirit Awards Taketh Away
| From left: The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, screenwriter Mark Boal, and Jeremy Renner. Last night, the 19th Gotham Independent Film Awards—the first hurdle in the award-season obstacle course leading up to Oscar ...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: DGA Doc Nominees
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Agnes Varda
Mai Iskander
A couple of women, one veteran, Agnes Varda and one newcomer, Mai Iskander just got their first nominations for a DGA Award.
Iskander was nominated for Garbage Dreams about boys born into the “trash world” in Egypt whic...[Read on] |
Barbara Bush Stars in Marriage Equality Video, Really Steals Meghan McCain’s Thing
| A new video in support of gay marriage stars Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. Bush. “I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,” the Manhattan resident and Yale graduate says. “New York is about fairness and equality. And eve...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s Cinematographer Roundtable
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I guess I should thank the Hollywood Reporter for making my job easy this week by providing me with such blatantly sexist material.
They posted their conversation with cinematographers and SURPRISE there is not a single woman included.
I know that the...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Independent Spirit Award Nominations
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Isn’t the indie world supposed to be better for women? Guess not that much better since women were virtually shut out of all the major awards categories for the Independent Spirit Awards which will be held in LA on Friday, March 5th.
Here are some of...[Read on] |
Marta wins fifth consecutive FIFA women’s world player of the year
| The amazing Marta won her fifth consecutive FIFA player of the year award, ahead of Germany’s Fatmire Bajramaj and Birgit Prinz.
The FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala, which took place in Zurich on Monday, raised the curtain on the new decade in style. Attractin...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak Celebrates Female Heroes: Past, Present and Future
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Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. I am so proud and blessed to be an American. Running the risk of sounding cliché, the United States truly is the land of opportunity. While watching the current events unfold in the Middle East and in othe...[Read on] |
Astor Trial Wrap-up: How Anthony Marshall Sentenced Himself to Jail
| Brooke Astor and Anthony Marshall at her estate Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, New York, circa December 2001. Photograph by Alec Marshall. Charlene Marshall tends to dominate any room that she is in. As her 85-year-old husband, Anthony Marshall—ga...[Read on] |
Mo'Nique's Spreads The Love With New Comedy Tour
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Mo'Nique doesn't stop! After winning a number of awards (including a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and the Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Film Critics Award) being nominated for an Academy Award, and hosting a successful...[Read on] |
Book Review: The Lost Recipe for Happiness
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Author: Barbara O’Neal
Pages: 447
Date Started: 8/8/10
Date Finished: 8/15/10
Simple Summary: Elena is a chef and has a past. Mega horror film director Julian Liswood wants her to spearhead his new restaurant in Aspen, CO. And to taste her naughty bits....[Read on] |
Kim wins sports award as woman of the year
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Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na became the first Asian to earn the Sportswoman of the Year honor yesterday at the 31st Annual Salute to Women in Sports gala held by the Women’s Sports Foundation.
The annual event, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Ne...[Read on] |
Theatre women create awards in honor of Lillian Hellman
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This year a bunch of very high profile theatre writers and others decided that they were tired of women’s work being constantly unacknowledged, so they created The Lilly awards which will honor 17 women theater artists, as well as Mary Rodgers who will ...[Read on] |
Marta named World Player of year
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Brazil’s Marta captured soccer’s World Player of the Year award for the fourth year in a row. The 23-year-old playmaker beat teammate Cristiane, Kelly Smith of England, and Germans Birgit Prinz and Inka Grings.
“I’m really surprised,” Marta sa...[Read on] |
Couric Wins Cronkite Award for Palin Interview
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Katie Couric received the Walter Cronkite Award for her infamous Sarah Palin interviewKatie Couric | Today 5:45 pm
Remember when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused journalist Katie Couric of "exploiting" their disastrous exchange — the one ...[Read on] |
Race and Film: The Release of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Interesting story out of England about how director Anthony Fabian is resorting to guerrilla type outreach tactics to raise awareness and get an audience to see his new film Skin starring Oscar nominated actress Sophie Oko...[Read on] |
Nominate your female Sports Hero
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March is Women’s History Month and there is no better way to honor female
athletes than by nominating them for one of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2010 award programs.
Current open nominations include:
Sportswoman of the Year Award. Every year,...[Read on] |
Patti Smith wins National Book Award!
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Congratulations to my favorite artist of all time, Patti Smith, who won the National Book award last night for her memoir, Just Kids. If you have not read this book, go get it! It's thoroughly entertaining and very inspiring. Here's a quote from the Times...[Read on] |
Vote for Sportswoman of the Year
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It’s that time of year. Time to head over to the Women’s Sports Foundation website to vote for Sportswoman of the Year.
Every year, WSF recognizes an individual and team Sportswoman whose performances over a 12-month time span have been exceptional...[Read on] |
Equality Watch: First Female British Poet Laureate
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It only took 341 years but Britain has finally appointed a woman and lesbian as its poet laureate. Carol Ann Duffy was named to the post taking over for Andrew Motion who resigned.
Some of her accomplishments:
Her 1999 collection The World’s Wife, wh...[Read on] |
No Wonder Woman Reboot Coming
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I was excited over the potential to see a rebooted version of Wonder Women. If Battlestar Galactica, a cheesy show, can be remade into a major league great show, how can we not do some justice to Wonder Woman.
But it looks like I won’t be able ...[Read on] |
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