"emily-abt" Articles & Blogs:
Allowing Women A Range of Leadership Styles That Go Beyond Mama Grizzlies and Emasculators
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Jill Miller Zimon is one of WCF’s MsRepresentation bloggers in the final weeks of the 2010 election.
This summary of female leadership styles, written by Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and titled,...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Polit...[Read on] |
The finalists for Lisbeth
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Thompson on Hollywood has a report that there are five finalists for the role of Lisbeth Salander and they are all pretty much unknown. Sorry, no Carey Mulligan or Ellen Page.
Daniel Craig is still the first choice for Mikael Blomkvist but they are st...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Watch: Victoria Beckham to Donate Royal Trousseau?
| Victoria Beckham. Photograph via Patrick McMullan.
The royal wedding of Prince William and the future Princess Catherine is just a few months away. From the daily barrage of tabloid folly, VF.com’s Royal Watcher in London plucks the best for your weddin...[Read on] |
Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch
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Here are the women on Variety’s 10 screenwriters to Watch. It is really focused on comedy writers and seems to have a bit of a feminist bent. Here’s to hoping these women make some good films that we get to see in theatres.
Emma Forrest
“I’m...[Read on] |
Rugged racing women motor across Morocco in the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles
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This year, the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles celebrates its 20th anniversary and its successful and unique history. The rally is the only all-women's off-road rally in the world and strictly forbids competitors from using GPS, support teams, cell phones,...[Read on] |
Women Start New Distribution Company
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Distribution vets Emily Woodburne ( IFC and Zeitgeist), Bridget Stokes (IFC Films) and Vicky Wight (Artistic License) have joined forces and have created a new distribution company BEV Pictures. The films to be released by the company will focus on a sla...[Read on] |
Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity Symposium
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The Women’s Initiative presents,
“Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity,”
December 4, 2010 at The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South (at 20th Street),
New York, NY
1:00pm to 5:00pm.
The Symposium will feature keynote speaker Julia Jordan...[Read on] |
Princeton to add gender neutral campus housing option next year
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Via Emily Rutherford at Campus Progress:
It's a pilot program which designates Spelman Hall, an apartment-style housing option for upperclass students (in which, significantly, every student gets their own bedroom), as gender-neutral. Instead of having t...[Read on] |
"Just your average college girl who's played ball with the President" - Glamour
| Maya Moore was named to Glamour’s Top Ten College Women list. Although they describe the 10 women as “amazing women you haven’t heard of yet” and I’ve obviously heard of her, that’s a pretty cool honor!
Here’s what they had to say about...[Read on] |
Interview with Marleen Gorris and Nancy Larson – director and writer of Within the Whirlwind
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Dutch director Marleen Gorris is one of the most feminist directors around. She has actually won an academy award for one of the most feminist films I have ever seen -Antonia’s Line which won the best foreign language film Oscar in 1995. Her other f...[Read on] |
Toe to Toe written and directed by Emily Abt opens today in NYC
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Last year I wrote a post about Toe to Toe a film written and directed by Emily Abt that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. At that time Emily didn’t have a distributor and wanted one. The good news is that she got a distributor and the film...[Read on] |
Gender Bias in Theatre — Digging a Little Deeper
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Last week I attended the release of an economic study done by Princeton undergrad Emily Glassberg Sands entitled Opening the Curtain of Playwright Gender: An Integrated Economic Analysis of Discrimination in American Theatre.
Usually an undergraduate the...[Read on] |
NBC to air Skating & Gymnastics Show Jan. 10
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The Progressive Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular was filmed and presented live at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center back in October and the show will be broadcast on NBC, Sunday, Jan. 10 from 4-6 p.m. (check local listings).
Olympic champion Nastia Liukin ce...[Read on] |
Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You (Hopefully)
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To say that I am impressed with writer/director Emily Abt is an understatement. I’ve been a fan of hers since I first saw her documentary All of Us about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in African American women which was released in NY last fall and broadcast o...[Read on] |
A Favorite Fiction Chick: Jodi Picoult
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Most chicks have heard of Jodi Picoult, probably from the movie based on her book My Sister’s Keeper, but have you checked out her other books?
If you haven’t you should really consider it, especially if you liked “My Sister’s Keeper.” She cove...[Read on] |
Autobiograhy of Red: A Verse Novel
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Today, we have only fragments of Stesichorus’ original masterpiece, Song of Geryon, which tells the story of Herakles’ Tenth Labor and the death of the red-winged monster, Geryon. In Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson retells the myth with a modern twi...[Read on] |
Getting out of the way so women can save the world
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Like most of you, I'm sure, I was excited to see the package of articles in The New York Times Magazine yesterday on the state of women's rights globally. Times columnist Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, authors of the lead article, have a forthcoming bo...[Read on] |
Best actress contenders – Thinking outside the box
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik has a recent piece about how small the pool is this year for Best Actress.
He talks about how the top three potential nominees are Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Pr...[Read on] |
Olympic athletes to sport vintage-inspired style
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The Countdown to the Olympics includes a lot of important preparations, not the least of which is what the athletes are going to wear.
As he has done before, Ralph Lauren will have a hand in outfitting the athletes. His affinity for Americana will be...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The BAFTA Long List
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Certain of the Oscar categories release long list before the final nominations but BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has produced a long list in all its categories before whittling it down to the final five in each.
An Education (a...[Read on] |
Skirting The Issues: Erase Gray Areas Surrounding Rape Cases
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What do you think of when you think of rape? Walking down a dark city street alone late at night, a strange man assaulting a young girl? A drug slipped in a cocktail and a girl waking up a few hours later unsure of why her clothes have been pulled off?
W...[Read on] |
Race Day: Three American Women in Rallye AÏcha des Gazelles
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We've told you a little about the Rallye AÏcha des Gazelles here on the Ask Patty blog before, but for those of you who are unfamiliar, it's a pretty amazing thing. Imagine a classic off-road auto rally - this one takes place in the desert of Morocco ...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – A look back and a look ahead
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While most Americans (and the world) are struggling financially, Hollywood had a great year. Box office revenue topped $10.6 billion, up 10 percent from 2008 (according to Hollywood.com) and many of the year end stories have talked about women both at...[Read on] |
Interview with Sunshine Cleaning writer Megan Holley
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(from L-R) Megan Holley, Jason Spevack, Christine JeffsSunshine Cleaning comes out on DVD today. I think Amy Adams performance in this film is much stronger and nuanced that Julie & Julia. Here's my review from when the film came out. I was also able t...[Read on] |
The Most Powerful Women in Hollywood according to Nikki Finke
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Tonight in Hollywood Elle Magazine will host the annual salute to women in Hollywood. I am looking forward to the day when we don’t need to highlight women because they will have as much power as men, but in reality, women are nowhere near as powerful...[Read on] |
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