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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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Ashley Judd Not Running for Senate
After months of speculation, Ashley Judd has decided to not run for senate. She used twitter and her website to release her decision. She made clear that while she has a deep commitment to Kentucky and it's people the time is not right for her to get into the race.
- By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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- March 29, 2013 11:00 AM
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Bring Shola Lynch's Free Angela & All Political Prisoners to Your Local Theater
Shola Lynch's Free Angela & All Political Prisoners focuses on the remarkable life of the incomparable Angela Davis, a professor, a member of the Communist party and influential social activist who worked with the Black Panthers.
- By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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- March 27, 2013 11:15 AM
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Ashley Judd Speaks About Women's Rights in D.C.
As we reported last year, rumors have been swirling about Ashley Judd running for senate against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. While Judd still won't confirm rumors, she spoke at George Washington University in D.C. last week, her first public appearance in the city since news of the rumored beginnings of her political career began.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- March 7, 2013 1:00 PM
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Holland Taylor Takes on Ann Richards on Broadway
Holland Taylor, who TV audiences will know well from Two and a Half Men, is taking on a new role--Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. Taylor will star as Richards in Ann, which she also wrote.
- By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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- March 5, 2013 10:00 AM
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Senate Drops Zero Dark Thirty Investigation
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- February 28, 2013 12:45 PM
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Kathryn Bigelow Speaks Out About Zero Dark Thirty Criticism to Los Angeles Times
Kathryn Bigelow has decided to address the torture criticism surrounding Zero Dark Thirty in a personally written response to her critics in the LA Times.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- January 17, 2013 12:00 PM
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Critics and Film Lovers Respond to Kathryn Bigelow Snub
After Kathryn Bigelow’s name wasn’t announced for Best Director during yesterday’s Oscar nominations, film and entertainment critics as well as movie lovers were outraged causing a vast social media discussion of why Bigelow was snubbed. Some mentioned sexism, the mostly male based Oscar voting body and the discussion of torture surrounding Zero Dark Thirty.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- January 11, 2013 3:00 PM
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Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal Defend Film at NY Film Critics Circle Award Ceremony
Over the last several weeks the steady drumbeat against Zero Dark Thirty has grown louder and louder. There's been the discussion that Boal was a bully and Bigelow defered to him on the set and there is a Senate committee looking into how they got the information that made up the screenplay.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- January 8, 2013 12:00 PM
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Hillary Clinton The Early Years Script "Rodham" Gets Some Heat
One of the hottest screenplays in Hollywood right now isn’t just being discussed by industry insiders over lunches in Beverly Hills or in the entertainment blogosphere—it’s also being widely discussed in political circles.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- January 4, 2013 3:00 PM
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Senate Committee to Investigate Zero Dark Thirty
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- January 3, 2013 11:52 AM
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Where is the WGA in all this? They have never stood up for their female members who are paid less
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