Women in Hollywood

How I Made Peace with the Other 'F' Word

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 04.08.2012

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Shasta Nelson, M.Div.

I'd heard women start sentences with "I'm not a feminist, but ...," modeling for me that we wanted to distance ourselves from some scary picture of women burning bras and hating men.

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Scorned: Most Famous Cases of Love Gone Wrong (QUIZ)

Posted 01.19.2012

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In today's society, monogamy has become a hard vow to keep. But faithful celebrity relationships? Those might be even harder. We scoured our files...

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Reese Witherspoon Wants To Make Out With Jennifer Aniston

AP | By SANDY COHEN | Posted 12.18.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston might be closer friends than anyone realized. Describing Aniston Monday night at Elle magazine'...

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Jennifer Aniston, Evan Rachel Wood And Freida Pinto Bare All

Posted 12.18.2011

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To coincide with their Women in Hollywood event in LA, ELLE has released a short film to toast some of the biggest names in tinseltown. While it ...

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The New Streisand Effect?

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 12.18.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Nine women were honored at the annual Women in Hollywood event, yet two ladies in particular stole the show. Viola Davis surprise...

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Behind the Scenes With the Indefatigable and Bold Geena Davis

Pat Mitchell | Posted 11.06.2011

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Pat Mitchell

This lack of good role models for women, and especially for girls who need to see what they can be in order to have those dreams and ambitions, is something that has concerned Geena and many of us for quite some time.

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'The Smurf Ghetto': Hollywood's New Glass Ceiling For Female Directors

Moviefone | Posted 10.31.2011

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What's the top-grossing film directed by a woman? (Hint: It's not 'Big' or 'You've Got Mail' or 'It's Complicated,' and it's certainly not 'The Hurt L...

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The Mysterious Disappearance of Hollywood's Trailblazing Women

Francine LeFrak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, The Academy Awards, Fair Game, Halle Berry, Actresses, Hilary Swank, Women in Hollywood, The Oscars, Black Swan, Naomi Watts, Women in Movies, Oscars 2011, Feminism, New York News
Francine LeFrak

Last year was a painful one for movies about fearless women struggling for rights, freedom and equality. Has feminism in film become passe?

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12 Women We Love For Their Souls... Not Lingerie

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tom Matlack

Who are the men Esquire's talking about? What is it that we love about these women? Their factory-fresh "breasts"? Their naughty smiles? Are those things truly what men at their best love about women?

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What if Jeff Bridges Were a Woman?

Ann Daly, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ann Daly, PhD

Hollywood narratives simply cannot accommodate women beyond the marriage plot. Once she passes Dora the Explorer's age, a woman's story (note the singular) revolves around sex and romance.

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We're With Bigelow: 82 Women on Making it in Hollywood (VIDEO)

Megan Billman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megan Billman

This film was born six weeks ago, over dinner, as we discussed Kathryn Bigelow's nomination and wondered why there hadn't been more women nominated in the category of best director.

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Ten Minutes With: Sharon Lawrence

Fabio Periera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fabio Periera

Each year, women from all over the world travel to Los Angeles in the hopes of fulfilling their creative ambitions, and in 1992, Sharon Lawrence was o...

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Female Directors, Writers, and Producers in Film Matter

Stacy Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stacy Smith

Last week, my research team and I released a study on gender in 100 top-grossing films in 2007. Females do not represent "half the cinematic sky." The findings make this point crystal clear.

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Hollywood: Bring Back the Tragic Divas

Keri Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keri Walsh

Today's tragic films trip up on the question of motherhood. Directors seem afraid to pull women into the orbit of tragedy, and so they use their children as an out. These days we have male divas.

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Women Underrepresented In Hollywood On Screen And Behind The Camera

Neon Tommy | Jessica Youseffi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Media Studies, Amy Pascal, Women in Hollywood, Hollywood Women, Los Angeles News

(The following story by Jessica Youseffi comes courtesy of Neon Tommy, the voice of Annenberg Digital News. ) Females in Hollywood continue to be jus...

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Interview with Sally Potter, Director of Rage

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melissa Silverstein

Sally Potter is a filmmaking icon. She is an outspoken, visionary, feminist director who has been on the cutting edge of the indie world since she started making films.

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Interview: Baby Bumps and Celebrity Moms

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Morra Aarons-Mele

It's wonderful that pregnancy is seen as such a beautiful thing, but it's a shame that motherhood is framed against a backdrop of such beauty [that] no one can live up to.

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What Does a $70 Million Opening Weekend Get Catherine Hardwicke? Fired.

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melissa Silverstein

Nikki Finke is reporting that Hardwicke was actually fired because she was "difficult" and "irrational." Geez, they just should have called her a bitch and been done with it.

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Women's Films: A New Box Office Trend?

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melissa Silverstein

As of today, there are two women-centric films -- Sex and the City and Mamma Mia! -- in the top 10 at the box office for the year.

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