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Variety Honors, Offends Women in Entertainment [Girls On Film]
Jezebel — ... and car chases" has been an issue in her career. "They think, 'Well, yeah, you can do a romantic comedy,'" she says. "Well, I love a nice romantic comedy, and I love something like Ray , a movie I did that was all about sound that made you feel emotional. But I also can sit in a big effects film, a big fight scene, and go nuts and love it ... You don't have to prove it as a man; if you have a good resume, they're not going to question it. But you do have to prove it as a woman." Women's Impact Report '08 [Variety]

Variety Women's Impact Report: Stephanie Savage
BuzzSugar — [image] Variety has issued its annual Women's Impact Report , highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like last year , the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy. Today's pick: producer Stephanie Savage. Josh Schwartz gets most of the credit for The OC and Gossip Girl , but Savage, his co-producer, should get a ton of credit for Schwartz being a phenom in the first place. As the Variety profile points out, she was ...

Variety's Women's Impact Report: Alexandra Patsavas
BuzzSugar — Variety has issued its annual Women's Impact Report, highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like last year, the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy. Today's pick: music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas. I don't own a whole lot of TV soundtracks, but I do have several of the ones from The O.C., which sound more like mix CDs from my coolest friend than the soundtracks to a soapy teenage drama. I have ...

Variety Women's Impact Report: Marketa Irglova
BuzzSugar — Variety has issued its annual Women's Impact Report, highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like last year, the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy. Today's pick: musician and actress Marketa Irglova. Irglova made her grand entrance as a performer in Once, the 2006 film starring her and Glen Hansard as a pair of musicians who spent a week writing their own love story in song. But she made an even ...

Variety's Women's Impact Report: Katherine Fugate
BuzzSugar — Variety has issued its annual Women's Impact Report, highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like last year, the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy. Today's pick: creator of the TV series Army Wives, Katherine Fugate. It's hard enough to draw audiences to the theater for movies having to do with the Iraq War; attempting to bring these stories into living rooms week after week is a huge ...

Variety's Women's Impact Report: Diablo Cody and Ellen Page
BuzzSugar — [image] Variety has issued its annual Women's Impact Report , highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like last year , the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy. Today's pick: the screenwriter and the star of Juno , Diablo Cody and Ellen Page. Variety has a whole category devoted to Diablo Cody and Ellen Page , titled "The Muse and the Messenger." I had no way of knowing back in December when I first saw Juno that it would ...

Variety Women's Impact Report: Erykah Badu
BuzzSugar — [image] Variety has issued its annual Women's Impact Report , highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like last year , the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy. Today, I'm wrapping up my series with a look at singer Erykah Badu. Like Marketa Irglova, whom I also featured , Badu made Variety 's report in the Defying Convention category. The paper's profile of her tells the story of a singer who first seemed destined to be ...