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Women and Hollywood
Melissa Silverstein is the founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry. She is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Athena Film Festival. The 4th annual festival will take place from February 6-9, 2014 at Barnard College in NYC. Melissa recently published the first book from Women and Hollywood, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing, which is a compilation of over 40 interviews that have appeared on the site.Email Melissa
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Kerry Washington Gives George Washington University Commencement Address
Our favorite DC fixer Olivia Pope (a.k.a. the lovely, talented Kerry Washington) gave the commencement address at George Washington University.
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- May 21, 2013 12:45 PM
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Kerry Washington FINALLY Covers A Major Fashion Magazine
Kerry Washington is on a roll. She was in the hugely successful Django Unchained. She's in one of the hottest shows on TV as the star -- Olivia Pope -- who is in love with the President of the United States -- did you see that episode last night? Her new movie Peeples is in theaters now. She's also a huge advocate for women and is also very politically active. Basically, she's flawless.
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- May 10, 2013 1:30 PM
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Talking Shonda Rhimes' Scandal on Melissa Harris-Perry
On this last week's Melissa Harris-Perry show she devoted a whole segment to Shonda Rhimes' show Scandal. In the segment she is joined by Andrea Plaid, Heather McGee, Joy-Ann Reid and Janet Mock.
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- April 11, 2013 11:30 AM
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Kerry Washington Wins Big at NAACP Image Awards
Over the weekend at the NAACP Image Awards, Kerry Washington swept the show. She won three awards.
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- February 5, 2013 12:00 PM
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Political Video of the Day: Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria Are Voting Obama
In a video for MoveOn.org, actresses Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria give women some of the reasons why they should go vote for Obama in the upcoming election.
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- November 1, 2012 11:30 AM
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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kerry Washington
This week, Kerry Washington, star of ABC's Scandal, wrote an op-ed piece for The Daily Beast about why she’s voting for Barack Obama. With the very high stakes for women in this election, more female celebrities have been recently speaking out.
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- October 26, 2012 10:08 AM
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Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil's Being Mary Jane Will Open Urbanworld Film Festival and Air on BET
Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s, Being Mary Jane, is opening the 16th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival.
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- September 13, 2012 12:39 PM
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Academy Names 176 New Members
In an attempt to diversify its membership, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 176 people to become members. There are just under 6,000 members of the full Academy. Keep in mind that a person is only allowed to be a member of one branch. So for example, Barbra Streisand. She might have been invited for her acting, so if she did not change her branch when she became a director, she does not vote for the best director nominee.
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- July 2, 2012 11:00 AM
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Guest Post: Trouble in Hollywood - Hunger Games Fans Resort to Racist Tweets
The first installment of the highly anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy finally made its way to the silver screen, earning an historic $155 million its opening weekend. While fans cheered on Katniss Everdreen—the strong and self-sufficient blue-eyed, blond hair Anglo heroine fighting for her survival, others were disturbed by the casting of Rue, a 13-year-old-girl also competing in the futuristic gladiator-type games. Their distress wasn't because the adorable Amandla Stenberg's acting was subpar—it was because of the color of her skin.
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- March 30, 2012 10:45 AM
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Sneak Preview: Shonda Rhimes' Scandal
Thanks to Shonda Rhimes next week will be a milestone week. It will be the first time in 30 years that a single African American woman will be the lead on a network TV show. (Jada Pinkett Smith was the lead on Hawthorne on cable) The show -- Scandal -- is based on the life of Washington "fixer" Judy Smith who in the past also worked for President George H.W. Bush.
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- March 30, 2012 10:00 AM
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Bigelow's 80s movies were all indie films--THE LOVELESS (Pioneer films), NEAR DARK (DEG) and
Yes, and that trend for women buying more tickets continues in the 2012 report.
good point.
MPAA Theatrical Market Statistics 2012 - can be found if you Google the title. I can't post
I think her comparison to the music biz is shaky - a film director is much more like a record