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The Time Has Come
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Those were the words that Barbra Streisand uttered when she announced Kathryn Bigelow’s name as the winner of the best director Oscar. The moment came at the end of a long and boring show that featured many male winners in most categories, but DAMN, s...[Read on] |
Yentl: A Movie That Changed the World
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If you’ve ever heard me speak or know me you know that Yentl is the movie that changed my world. Seeing a woman produce, star, sing, co-write and direct when I was a teenager knocked my socks off. No woman had done what Barbra Streisand did in 1983. ...[Read on] |
Barbie Mania Goes Back to Fanny Brice's Nose Job
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(WOMENSENEWS)--By the 1920s, Americans were obsessed with the actress Fanny Brice's nose job. The mixture of sex and race in Brice's career is impossible to fully separate, since it was her Jewishness that made her "funny" (as immortalized by ...[Read on] |
Does Having a Vagina Make You a Female Director?
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Yesterday, Kathryn Bigelow got her first DGA nomination for directing The Hurt Locker. She’s not the one who made history yesterday. Seven women — Lina Wertmuller (“Seven Beauties”), Randa Haines (“Children of a Lesser God”), Barbra Streis...[Read on] |
The Post Oscar Debate on Kathyn Bigelow and Gender
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This past week there have been a lot of stories looking at Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win from a variety of perspectives. The fact that we are even having these conversations at all is in itself a huge and gigantic (and every other adjective I can throw ...[Read on] |
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