"robin-wright" Articles & Blogs:
Hounddog Screening in Boston
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I’m going to be moderating a q&a with Deborah Kampmeier the writer/director of Hounddog, Saturday night, March 28th as part of the Women Action Media conference. The screening is free.
Saturday March 28th
6:00 PM
MIT
Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Room...[Read on] |
Women breaking barriers: A milestone
| From the Association for Women in Sports Media: Today marks the 35th anniversary of Robin Herman and Marcel St. Cyr becoming the first female sports reporters to enter a locker room for post-game interviews.Herman was a reporter at The New York Times and ...[Read on] |
Mad Men gets more male writers
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Robin Veith
Remember when everyone was heralding Mad Men as the second coming for women writers and I didn’t buy it for one minute? I’m not saying the show doesn’t write great female characters. It does. It just doesn’t employ many women ...[Read on] |
Sexism and ageism in the soap opera world
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I used to be a big fan of Days of our Lives. Big fan. Watched it on and off (mostly on) for about 15 years. A couple of years ago I went cold turkey. But soaps are in distress, Guiding Light was canceled and cost cutting is the mantra. Days of Our...[Read on] |
Cate Blanchett & Feminism in Robin Hood
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[Spoilers below]
I watched Robin Hood this past weekend with the boo and I LOVED it! Man oh man, the story of Robin Hood just hits me right in the core! I mean, Guru's Robbin Hood Theory is one of my favorite songs of all time! Best lyrics ever: Now tha...[Read on] |
Speaking Out: Why Being a Woman Is Not a Pre-Existing Condition
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by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
All week, individuals and groups across the country have been speaking out about why being a woman is not a pre-existing condition.
Our friends at SEIU launched a counter where yo...[Read on] |
Mad Men women writers part whatever
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I don’t know why this is one of my bugaboos but every since Mad Men put all its female writers out in the Wall Street Journal before last year’s premiere and declared the show was basically written by women I’ve been watching the women writers on ...[Read on] |
Engineer Says Robotics Can Use a Woman's Touch
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Robin Murphy's robots don't look human. Nor do they act like R2D2, or Rosie from "The Jetsons."
Instead they are small and flexible; built to slither through collapsed buildings, fly over wildfires or floods, and check the integr...[Read on] |
Just Wright
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On the surface, Just Wright is your typical romantic comedy. Girl meets boy, girl likes boy, boy likes her best friend, best friend dumps boy, boy and girl fall in love, boy hurts girl and tries to get back with best friend, boy realizes that he screwed...[Read on] |
The Exploding Girl
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I’ve been watching Zoe Kazan since I saw her on stage in The Seagull where she and Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan acted circles around veteran actors Kristen Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard. Last year was a breakthrough year for her onscreen playing da...[Read on] |
Fighting for Women’s Economic Security Everywhere
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by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
A group of experts from around the globe converged in Haifa, Israel, late last year to discuss a crucial topic at a United Nations conference: the impact of the economic crisis on women...[Read on] |
Holiday Movie Preview- Lots for and about women
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I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontr...[Read on] |
'Sex and The City 2' World Premiere (Photos)
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Those fabulous four women are at it again, at the world premiere of ‘Sex and the City 2’Culture | Today 12:00 pmThe world premiere of "Sex and the City 2" was held on May 24, 2010, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. If you th...[Read on] |
How Do You Know If You're Being Paid Fairly?
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by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
My first job was as a hostess at a steakhouse in my hometown — the kind with a giant all-you-can-eat salad-and-baked-potato bar and a bestselling Tuesday night half-priced-prime-r...[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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Robin Roberts wins Walter Camp Football Foundation "Distinguished American" Award
| Former Southeastern Louisiana women’s basketball player Robin Roberts, accomplished student-athlete, media personality, author and breast-cancer survivor, is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Camp Football Foundation "Distinguished American" Award.
The ...[Read on] |
Columbia/Barnard Take Back the Night March
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On the night of Thursday April 16th, there will be a Take Back the Night March held in New York City. One of the event’s coordinators, Robin, said in her email to me that the march is “an empowering event for both men and women, survivors, ...[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] |
'Mad Men' Takes on Fair Pay
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by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager National Women's Law Center
“I don't know if you read in the paper, but they passed a law saying women who do the same work as men will get paid the same thing. Equal pay."
So said Peggy Olson, a (fictional)...[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] |
Saving Grace to end its run next summer
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Saving Grace is ending its run after after only three seasons. Honestly, I am surprised. From what I read, TNT still wanted the show but its production company FOX TV studios declined the pickup based on money.
Strange. Canceling a show with an Emm...[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] |
Feminist Artist Watch: Melissa Giges
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New York native Melissa Giges just released her national debut of Evident, where she sings with a soft yet almost haunting voice which conveniently matches the production of the music in the album, particularly the song, Evident. (Listen below.)
Utili...[Read on] |
Pale male fail – Who makes the most in Hollywood
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Vanity Fair has put together a list of Hollywood’s highest film earners and not surprisingly, at the top of the list are all white men. The highest female on the list is Emma Watson who made $30 million for the latest Harry Potter films. ($15 million ...[Read on] |
The Next Hit Girl
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Looks like we’re going to be talking about girl assassins for a while longer. While we can probably agree that Saoirse Ronan won’t be uttering the c-word in her new film Hanna (but then again, who knows) we do know that she will be kicking a little ...[Read on] |
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