Reed Morano won an Emmy on Sunday, for directing the pilot for drama series The Handmaid’s Tale. In doing so, she became the first woman in 22 years to win in that category, since Mimi Leder picked one up in 1995 for ER. For Morano, a cinematographer working for nearly two decades and known for projects like Frozen…
In a NOW Toronto article, actor-turned-writer/director-turned showrunner of the upcoming Netflix series based on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Sarah Polley, says that sexual harassment in film is an “every single day experience.” Polley says that the sexism she witnessed and experienced in her 25 years of acting is…
Patty Jenkins is reportedly close to finalizing a deal to direct the Wonder Woman sequel, after months of salary negotiations.
Film director Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty to one case of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1979 and has been accused of assaulting a 16-year-old girl in 1986, has now been accused of sexual assault by a third, unidentified woman. She claims the assault happened when she was a minor. The woman and attorney Gloria…
A female stunt driver was killed on a motorcycle on the set of Deadpool 2 today in Vancouver. The woman, who was reportedly an “experienced road race racer” but was doing her first film as a stunt performer, was not wearing a helmet during the stunt, according to Deadline.
Talent manager Michael Einfeld has apologized to his team for using “language that was tasteless, humorless and completely inexcusable,” after an assistant exposed his sexist and offensive emails via Facebook.
In March of this year, Rosette Laursen says she was working as an assistant at a talent agency in the Los Angeles area when she planned to take a day off to participate in the A Day Without a Woman strike. The man she says was her boss allegedly responded to her request with an offensive emailed rant, which he…
Selena Gomez and Elle Fanning are the latest crop of young woman performers to be labeled “Woody Allen’s Muse.” Congrats.
You might have heard recently heard that Renata Klein, also known as Dr. Ellie Satler, also known as Diane from Twin Peaks—a.k.a. Laura Dern—was running for the president of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I was eagerly campaigning for her on the streets of Los Angeles with my FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:…
Ann Dowd’s warmth is almost disconcerting after watching her intense performances of characters capable of considerable cruelty in The Leftovers and The Handmaid’s Tale. In person, her eyes alternately sparkle when she talks about her work and family, and then flicker concern when the subject matter turns to a…
Now we know that Wonder Woman, the biggest movie of the summer, is definitely getting a sequel. But director Patty Jenkins is still not confirmed to return as director.
The Academy has announced that they’ve invited a whopping 774 new members this year, which is a record-breaking number for the institution.
The first Women in Animation World Summit will be held this year in June at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
When actor and writer Zoe Lister-Jones (Breaking Upwards, Life in Pieces) set out to make her charming directorial debut Band Aid, a film in which she stars opposite Adam Pally as a couple who tries to save their marriage by starting a rock band, she assembled a depressingly rare kind of production team: one entirely…
Well shit, what do you know! Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame star, vandalized once in October 2016, has been tampered with anew. Somebody must not like him—whoever could that solitary person be?
Japanese actress Sonoya Mizuno is joining Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, and Gemma Chan in the film Crazy Rich Asians, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s novel by the same name.
Tim Allen, a rather irrelevant actor, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, where he bemoaned the tribulations suffered by conservatives in Hollywood. “You gotta be real careful around here,” he told Kimmel. “You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody else believes. This is like ‘30s Germany.”
Hollywood is a land of dress-up and make believe where white people can be anyone they want, including Asian people, but actual people of Asian descent can only play stereotypes of what white people think Asian people are like.
In August of 1935, Jacques Kapralik arrived in America as a Jewish refugee of Hitler’s Germany. Born in Bucharest in 1906, he left behind a successful career as a cartoonist that had already brought him to Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. Two decades later he would tell the Los Angeles Examiner that he “still chuckles when…
This piece was originally published in The Chicago Tribune in the late 1960s and can be found in the collection, Latins Are Still Lousy Lovers. It appears here with permission from the author’s estate.
