"drama" Articles & Blogs:
Feminist Police Captain Calls the Shots in French Police Drama
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In its third season, French police drama Engrenages, known as Spiral to English-speaking viewers, is another gritty police drama teeming with all the usual installations: murder, drugs, corruption, sex, violence, but with one kick-ass leading female chara...[Read on] |
Women and the Emmys
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Dearbhla Walsh
Here’s a list of the women (and shows about women) that won at the Emmys.
Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC.
Actress, Drama Series: Glenn Close, “Damages,” FX Networks.
Actress, Comedy Series: Toni Collette, “United States of Ta...[Read on] |
Pilot Watch – CW
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There are so many shows that get developed each year, some make it to the pilot stage and very few make it to series.
This year I’m going to keep track and see the progress. I’ve created a pilot watch section and will list by studio shows by and ab...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
Book Review: Pretty Little Liars
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Author: Sara Shepard
Pages: 304
Date Started: 9/17/10
Date Finished: N/A
Simple Summary: Take four parts drama, three parts slut, and two parts stupid — blend until well mixed. Garnish with unbelievability and serve cold.
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ My R...[Read on] |
Hilary Swank Talks About Meeting the Woman She Played in “Conviction”
| From PatrickMcMullan.com Last night, buzz at a Cinema Society gig for Conviction, the upcoming legal drama, was palpable as industry insiders flocked to fete Hilary Swank and her co-stars Sam Rockwell and Juliette Lewis. But the real stars of the evening ...[Read on] |
2009 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Women
| Kudos to the women who now have a new bullet point on their résumés.
The 93rd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday by Columbia University and here is information on the female recipients.
Alexandra Be...[Read on] |
Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director? Bring Her On!
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(WOMENSENEWS)--March 7 brings us the Academy Awards and a chance to see Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win a best director Oscar.
"The Hurt Locker," Bigelow's taut drama about U.S. soldiers deployed to defuse bombs in Iraq, transcend...[Read on] |
TV Star Salaries
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Hey folks. Good news. If you scare the crap out of your ex-wife and then get arrested for beating your current wife you too can be the highest paid TV star by far.
Yes, Charlie Sheen a man with some serious anger issues (especially towards the wome...[Read on] |
Interview with Allison Janney
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I’ve been a big fan of Janney since I saw her onstage over a decade ago in A View from the Bridge and LOVED her as CJ Cregg on the West Wing. I recently saw her as Violet in 9 to 5, a show much maligned by critics but loved by audiences. She’s als...[Read on] |
Princess Beatrice vs. Alexa Chung: It's On!
| Jordan's Queen Rania is visiting Italy, and, boy, has she been Tweeting up a storm. Yesterday she posted a photo in which she appeared to be walking down a tapestry-lined corridor past a row of sword-bearing ceremonial guards. The sentries were wearing ra...[Read on] |
Q&A;: English Chanteuse Anna Calvi on Her Debut Album and Upcoming Tour
| Anna Calvi. Photograph by Maisie Cousins.With her blood-red lips, pulled back hair, Flamenco-style blouses and wounded voice, Anna Calvi is the kind of chanteuse that David Lynch would throw a hot, white spotlight on. She’s a modern take on the Jazz age...[Read on] |
Master Photographer Helen Levitt, 95, Dies
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Saying good-bye to the photographer known for shooting New York street scenesIn Memory of Helen Levitt | Today 12:00 pm
Iconic photographer Helen Levitt died at the age of 95 on Sunday.
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Levitt, who was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was ren...[Read on] |
The Emmy nominations
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The Emmy Award nominees came out last week. Here’s a look at how women did:
DRAMA SERIES
“The Good Wife” (CBS) – co-created by Michelle King
COMEDY SERIES
“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime) – created by Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem
“30 Rock”...[Read on] |
Sexism & Horse Racing: The Preakness
| I’m watching the pre-race coverage of the Preakness horse race right now on NBC. I’ve been following the media coverage of this race all week. Drama and debate rage on “should fillies race with stallions” due to the recent success of filly Rachel...[Read on] |
Happy Tears for Demi Moore, Ellen Barkin, and Parker Posey
| The cast party. Parker Posey, Ellen Barkin, and Demi Moore. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Last night’s Cinema Society screening of Happy Tears took a sartorial turn when Demi Moore walked the red carpet in an ensemble pulled from host Donna Karan’s Fall 2...[Read on] |
Is Hallmark the new Lifetime but for older women?
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I never used to watch anything on the Hallmark Channel. But lately it seems that they are doing some interesting movies of the week like the kind that used to be on network TV. I’m not saying that these are high drama or always even that good, but m...[Read on] |
In Love with Diane Kruger's Inglourious Basterds Footwear? Yearn No More
| Actor Christoph Waltz holding a pair of covet-worthy pumps in Inglourious Basterds. For those of you who shielded your eyes during the scalping and shooting scenes in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and instead focused on actresses Melanie Laur...[Read on] |
Fall 2010 TV Season – Shows Created by Women
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The fall lineups have been set (including some mid-season shows) so it’s time to see how women creatives have fared.
Here’s what we have been able to find out (research assistance from Stephanie Rosenfeld)
Fox – Five new shows- no female creators
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BFF: Best Friends Forever or Best Frenemies Forever?
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Best friendship is usually formed on common interests, and best friends Betty and Veronica (of the classic Archie Comic series) are no exception. They had one very similar interest - Archie Andrews - and spent their friendship fighting over him, constantl...[Read on] |
Keeping the Mood Light at The Lovely Bones Premiere
| Susan Sarandon, Christian Ashdale, Peter Jackson, and Saoirse Ronan at The Lovely Bones premiere in New York City, on December 3, 2009. Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com. “I didn’t even recognize you!” Susan Sarandon said to an Alexander Wang-clad ...[Read on] |
Interview with Greer Shepard, Executive Producer of The Closer
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The Closer started its fifth! season last week and Kyra Sedgwick is back as Brenda Lee Johnson the sweet talking, crime solving Deputy Chief of LAPD’s major crime squad. I very much enjoy the show. It is on TNT at 9pm on Monday nights. The show ha...[Read on] |
Lynn Nottage Wins Pulitzer for Drama
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Playwright Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her play Ruined which tells the story of the women of the Congo whose lives have been “ruined” by systemic rape and torture.
Nottage was inspired by Berthold Brecht’s Mother Courage to tell...[Read on] |
Betty Thomas — $200 Million Director
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You know things are shifting a bit when Entertainment Weekly has a column that spotlights female directors at the box office the week after Kathryn Bigelow won at her Oscar.
They note in the that Betty Thomas (former actress on Hill Street Blues) who has...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak hearts Hellcats
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In high school, we all loved tuning into our favorite primetime teen dramas. The storylines, abet a bit crazy at times, featured things we could relate to: dealing with boyfriend drama, taking the SATs, clashing with our parents and so and so on. We admir...[Read on] |
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