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Interview with Mary Kay Place Emmy Nominee from Big Love
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Mary Kay Place is nominated for an Emmy for her work as Adaleen Grant on the HBO show Big Love. The ceremony for her category — guest actress in a drama series — takes place this weekend on August 21st.
Women & Hollywood: Congrats on the Emmy nomi...[Read on] |
Christy Turlington – 41 Years Young and Loving Life
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Also from our Liz, a new controversy in the HamptonsLiz Smith | Today 12:00 am
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Can you name "the big six&quo...[Read on] |
Nurse Jackie gets a second season
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Edie Falco’s Nurse Jackie had a record breaking premiere for Showtime on Monday night with 1 million people watching the debut and another 350,000 watching the same night rebroadcast of the show.
It was so good that Showtime has already ordered a secon...[Read on] |
Best Plays of 2008-2009
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When I went to graduate school way back in the dark ages I remember that we needed to read the best plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc before we started classes. I remember distinctly that there were very few plays written by women in those books and ...[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] |
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] |
Animators, It's Time for a Female Heroine--No Princesses Please!
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Linda Holmes, over at NPR, writes a moving letter about her fervent hope that Pixar can take it's unparalleled talent and use it to create a true female heroine. An excerpt:
Of the ten movies you've released so far, ten of them have central characters wh...[Read on] |
What We Missed: Health Care Reform Addition
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<object width="512" height="328" class></object>Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
The health care debates are making me feel more ambivalent about politics than I have in a while. Enjoy some better babbling on the topic.
Wil...[Read on] |
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
Secretary Clinton to Launch Women’s World Cup Initiative
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Pretty Smart! On Monday June 6, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will launch the Women’s World Cup Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports. The event, which will be streamed live on www.state.gov. will take place 9:30 am...[Read on] |
NYWIFT Muse Awards
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the NYWIFT Muse Awards which honored some amazing women including America Ferrara (Ugly Betty); Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Allison Silverman (formerly the Executive Producer of the Colbert Report); Andrea...[Read on] |
The Women of Avatar
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I totally LOVED Avatar. It was a great forward thinking film with tons of passion and made me excited to be in a movie theatre. I can’t wait to see it again (my friend and I tried several times last weekend but were sold out.) Next time I am seein...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Confluence
| (Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.)
Yesterday was one of the best days of my life.
I got up a...[Read on] |
Preserving Women’s Films
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Jessie Maple
One of the great programs at New York Women in Film and TV is the women’s film preservation fund. This “is the only project of its kind in the world working to preserve the cultural legacy of women in cinema by restoring and c...[Read on] |
The newest Beauty & the Beast is “Beastly”
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Pretty Smart: One of our fave characters is Belle.
Now comes word their will be a live-action, modern retelling of the children’s classic “Beauty and the Beast” told from the Beast’s point of view.
CBS Films has signed actress/singer Vanessa Hud...[Read on] |
Salt – Anything You Can Do I Can Do Equal
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First things first. Angelina Jolie is a very believable kick-ass spy in the new, exciting, thriller Salt opening today.
What’s so great about this film is that it could be a game changer. The reason why is that there are no gender issues with Jolie...[Read on] |
Kelly Williams wants ladies to pay attention to their cars
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Kelly Williams may never have received as many accolades as Danica Patrick when she was competing, but that doesn't lessen her achievements.
In 1994, Williams became the first female driver to win a race in CASCAR (Canadian Association for Stock Car Au...[Read on] |
AskPatty Attends (and Survives) BlogHer09
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AskPatty attended the BlogHer09 conference last week and we're so excited to share our experience. Even though we have worked together for more than two years, this was my first chance to spend some real quality time with my editor Brandy Schaffels. We...[Read on] |
The 10 Toughest Ladies of Film
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For years women have been kicking butt and taking names but very few of them ever get the recognition they deserve. One place this isn’t true is on film. Although the following 10 ladies may not all be real they are all fine examples of powerful, toug...[Read on] |
Megan Reitenour makes her mark
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Megan Reitenour made the annals of racing history last weekend.
She became the first women to win a feature race at the Tri-County Motor Speedway, winning the Firecracker 150. AskPatty.com chatted with Reitenour about her racing legacy and what's next ...[Read on] |
Women in Motorsports Blog Carnival - Indy Roundup
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A wave of women hit the grid this past weekend in Indianapolis, marking the first time four females have ever started the race.
AskPatty.com rounds up the news to see how our fierce, fast females fared last weekend.
After hearing another smattering of ...[Read on] |
Toronto Announces Docs to Screen at Festival
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The Toronto Film Festival has announced 25 documentaries that will screen at this year’s festival.
While I won’t pretend that this site or any other has influence on the decisions that are made on what films to screen, I couldn’t help but smile w...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Darkness in Vicksburg
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It was a rainy and gray weekend, and I spent most of it at Poverty Point Reservoir State Park, doing some much needed housekeeping (my computer was misbehaving, laundry needed doing) at this quite wonderful spot that has free wifi and laundry and good s...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Writers Guild Nominations
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The Writers Guild Award is one of the strictest in the award season. Here’s how to qualify: (Feature films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were exhibited theatrically for at least one week in Los Angeles in 2009 and were written under the WGA’s M...[Read on] |
My Dad still driving at 85 - Happy Father's Day!
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My Dad is still driving at 85 years old and is one of the big reasons I love cars! My Dad did not own a car at all until he was he was 33 years old. Owning a car was a luxury item for a post WWII blue collar family man in the 1950's, he car-pooled to wor...[Read on] |
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