Women In Film
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Idina Menzel admits she sometimes feels 'really insecure' ahead of Sunday's Oscars performance
Idina Menzel let them in, let them see the insecure girl she can sometimes be at Friday's Women in Film party in Los Angeles.
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Women in Film to Honor Amy Poehler, Issa Rae, Elizabeth Debicki, Cathy Schulman at 2019 Gala
Amy Poehler, Issa Rae, Elizabeth Debicki and Cathy Schulman are among the honorees for the 2019 Women in Film Annual Gala, Women in Film Los Angeles announced Thursday.The awards reception will take place on June 12 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and will be hosted by actress Xosha Roquemore. Formerly named the Crystal + Lucy Awards, the annual benefit supports WIF LA’s educational and philanthropic programs and its advocacy for gender parity for women throughout the industry.“SNL” and “
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Melissa McCarthy thinks 'we got off track for a while' when it comes to women in comedy
Melissa McCarthy talks about women and LGBTQ characters in movies.
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Oscars 2017 Study: Women Lose Ground in Non-Acting Categories
Women account for only 20% of nominees in this year's field, a decline from 2016, according to the Women's Media Project
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'Doctor Strange': Let's Hope Rachel McAdams Is the Last Great Actress to Play a Useless Superhero Girlfriend
The many dimensions of Doctor Strange contain plenty of juicy roles. Unfortunately, Rachel McAdams didn’t get one of them. The Oscar-nominated actress plays Dr. Christine Palmer, a colleague and ex-girlfriend of surgeon Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Like too many superhero girlfriends before her, Christine exists only to help and nurture the main character’s journey from self-centered Dude With Potential to self-actualized Dude Who Saves the Universe. ...
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Daisy Ridley Talks 'Force Awakens': Don't Call Rey a 'Mary Sue'
Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke domestic box-office records and, in the process, launched the career of Daisy Ridley, whose lead character Rey was one of the highlights of J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the sci-fi franchise. To clarify, a “Mary Sue” is a character, usually associated with fan fiction, and generally female, inserted into an existing genre universe who immediately exhibits tremendous and flawless skills, befriends the pre-existing main characters, overcomes odds with preternatural eas
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Kickstart This: 'Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers'
Crowdsourcing campaign aims to fund DVD set spotlighting the work of female directors who thrived in the silent era