Women & Hollywood

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...

It broke my heart when I read that Emma Thompson signed the petition to get Roman Polanski out of jail. I could not believe that she of all people, a woman who has dedicated herself to bringing attention to the epidemic of human trafficking, would sign a petition to get a rapist out of jail...

Winslet just won $40,000 in damages from the Daily Mail which said she lied about her exercise regime. Just so bizarre. Why does anyone care what her exercise regime is. Seems to me that these papers are finally getting caught out for lying when people fight back and say no more...

I have not stopped thinking about Precious since I saw it almost a week ago. This is a movie that unleashed many emotions many that have been hard to articulate properly...

The Early Show on CBS hosted the cast of Murphy Brown for a reunion. God, I loved that show. Can we please get another show like this? Pretty please. Maybe we can convince Diane Sawyer to create a new show. I promise to get everyone I know to watch it even if it is only half as good as Murphy...

The Oscar hosts for next year’s broadcast have been set. After some speculation that it would be Steve Martin and Tina Fey who did a cute tag team as presenters last year, they have decided — not surprisingly — to go with two guys. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. I li...

Jane Campion and Jan Chapman One of my longtime obsessions has been finding Australian films, especially those directed by women. It began almost 20 years ago when I first saw My Brilliant Career and I was blown away...

Julie White (l) and Theresa Rebeck I am so sick and tired of all the stories about how women compete against each other (lots of them bullshit designed, I believe, to keep women from working together) that it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate when we get a good, positive story about how w...

Today marks the first anniversary of the Obama election. Has the country changed? Hell, yes. Have things sucked in so many ways over the last year – duh. Are we having some really important debates. Yeah. ...

Here is part 2 of my interview with Katherine Dieckmann, director of Motherhood. Women & Hollywood: The producers on this film are women. Did you seek out female producers for this...

Aviva Kempner knew she could get people to see this film. Se believed in it deeply and she was right. This comes directly from Indiewire’s weekend box office assessment: …an under-the-radar doc hit $1 million after chugging along for nearly four months. Aviva Kempner’s “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldbe...

Lauren is a 21-year-old young director and has started a film fund for female filmmakers called X-Factor Filmmakers. Her next step is to launch a contest: The Best Female Directed Picture where you can win a netflix subscription to make people aware of the lack of female filmmakers. Impressive...

Juliet Stevenson I stumbled upon Val McDermid’s work in a bizarre way. I was watching the latest MI-5 on DVD and there was a new female lead Hermione Norris. ...

Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo Skin is the heartbreaking true story of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo) as a woman with black skin born to white parents in apartheid S. Africa. She is a white girl who looked black...