"women-writers" Articles & Blogs:
Hollywood Writers Report 2009
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It’s no surprise to know that women writers in Hollywood have a tough time getting gigs. It’s always great to have the statistics to back up all the anecdotes. So, here are the abysmal statistics from the 2009 Hollywood Writers Report report done ...[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] |
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 Watch: The Jay Leno Show- Where are the Women Writers?
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Jay Leno does a lot of good things with his piles of money. He funds very important work being done to support women and girls in Afghanistan through the Feminist Majority, but as Nancy Franklin pointed out in a recent New Yorker story on his new show, ...[Read on] |
Celebrating Black Women Writers and Artists for Black History Month
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The Frisky has an awesome series of images and stories about black women writers and artists, that are not as often heard of, including Ntozake Shange, Judith Jamison, and my very favorite Zora Neale Hurston.
I recently re-read Their Eyes Were Watching...[Read on] |
The still sorry stats on women working behind the scenes on TV
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Martha Lauzen and her team at the Center for Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State U. have updated the statistics on women creatives working behind the scenes during the 2008- 2009 TV season.
Here are the stats: (keep in mind these are...[Read on] |
2009 was no Year of the Woman in Hollywood
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Just forget all the bullshit you and I are constantly fed (and I sometimes write) about how great things are for women in Hollywood. We did have a better year at the box office with a couple of female led films making it to the top 10, and we did get a ...[Read on] |
Mad Men, brought to you by women
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Betty Draper takes aim at stereotypes, thanks to Mad Men's women writers
If you're anything like me, you can barely contain your excitement that season 3 of Mad Men begins on Sunday. It took me awhile to get around to watching the show (I didn't bother t...[Read on] |
Twilight Eclipse arrives in five days
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It’s beginning.
I’m glad the din about this one has been a bit muted (at least in my world).
But that’s now over.
Several thousand people from across the country camped out for days in order to get a spot on the red carpet for last night’s pr...[Read on] |
NY Times book review discovers women writers
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Everybody knows that women are the ones that buy books. I’ve heard statistics that say that women buy upwards of 60% of all books. But the NY Times Book Review has always been a boy’s club. Happily, this week the section was actually readable an...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2009
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The editors of Publishers Weekly have thrown down the gauntlet picking the top 10 books of the year and SURPRISE they are all by guys.
Here’s what Louisa Ermelino said about how they chose the books:
From more than 50,000 volumes, we valiantly set out...[Read on] |
Emmy-winning writer Kater Gordon departs Mad Men
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Something’s fishy over at Sterling Cooper.
It’s not too often that a newly minted Emmy winner leaves the show that earned her an Emmy, but that’s what seems to have happened to Kater Gordon. Nikki Finke reported on Deadline Hollywood yesterday th...[Read on] |
Finally, A Woman Included in the Hollywood Reporter Roundtable
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A couple of weeks ago The Hollywood Reporter held two roundtable conversations that forgot to include any women. Whoops. One was with cinematographers and the other was with writers.
The good news is that in their most recent roundtable with director...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Nell Scovell
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photo credit: Colin Summers
While you might not know her name, you’ve probably watched a show she has written on. She created Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and wrote for Coach, Newhart, Murphy Brown and many others.
In this absorbing and brave Vanity ...[Read on] |
Play It Forward: Coaches who make a difference
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Behind every athlete is a great coach. Has a coach made a difference in your life? Now is your chance to say Thank You. Nominate your coach and Play It Forward.
YouthNoise Play City is a nonprofit campaign that promotes using sports for social change...[Read on] |
BlogHer'10 - Women in Sports Panel
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Driving into New York City this weekend for the BlogHer event was definately something I was looking forward to participating in. I honestly didnt know exactly what to expect, but I felt as though bringing a professional athe...[Read on] |
Hollywood’s Top Earning Women
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Forbes has put together its first ever list on the top earning Hollywood women, and not surprisingly to me, half the top earners are over 40.
(PS this list is different from the list of highest earning women celebrities which came out earlier)
The list:...[Read on] |
When Meryl met Tina
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When I saw this picture I tried to come up with my idea of what these two awesome women said to each other on the red carpet at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards this past Saturday. Every scenario I wrote was so lame that I can’t post them. Any of y...[Read on] |
New Research: Women fare better in the indie movie world
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File this under no shit sherlock, but new research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented on independent films that appear in film festivals than in the top grossing big budget f...[Read on] |
Nora Ephron to Women Directors and Writers: Stop Whining and Just Do It
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Ariel Levy who has been kicking some serious ass in writing profiles in the New Yorker of late, spent some time with Nora Ephron as she readies Julie & Julia for release next month. (You can only read the article online if you have a subscription to the...[Read on] |
Why are there so few ladies in late night comedy?
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Last Thursday, the Paley Center for Media and the Writer's Guild of America East hosted a panel on women in late night comedy writing. The five panelists and the moderator, all women (and all white), were or used to be writers for The Daily Show, The Colb...[Read on] |
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room
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This week in London the Sphinx Theatre Company, a feminist theatre company, organized a conference Vamps, Vixens and Feminists: The Elephant in the Room to look at gender and age discrimination in the arts. They seem to have gotten some high profile peo...[Read on] |
Women's 2009 Books Enjoyed a Banner Year
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Female writers in all genres and at all levels--from blockbusters to thought stirrers--have won a generous portion of this year's critical acclaim, sweeping up a large percentage of the major prizes and, partially thanks to a spate of new f...[Read on] |
The legacy of Thirtysomething
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It’s been over 20 years since Thirtysomething went on the air and 18 years since it departed and now finally the first season will be released on DVD today. What I find so interesting about the show is how far reaching into TV and films — but mostly...[Read on] |
Playwright Marsha Norman talks about gender inequity in the theatre
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Marsha Norman is one of our best known female playwrights. Her play ‘night Mother won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, and she has also written the book for the musicals The Secret Garden and The Color Purple.
She recently went out on a limb and talked abou...[Read on] |
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