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We've harped on the lack of female leads in Hollywood movies (
here,
here,
here,
here and
here, for starters) and in Sunday's
New York Times, Manohla Dargis also
mourns the dearth of chicks in flicks. (Not to be confused with
chick flicks!) The summer movie season is upon us and the blockbuster films will be almost
totally male-dominated: between the comedies and action tentpoles like
Batman,
Iron Man,
The Hulk,
Indiana Jones and
Hellboy, we'll be seeing stars like Will Smith, Brendan Fraser, Nicolas Cage, Mark Wahlberg and Vin Diesel, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Jack Black and Seth Rogen. Women headlining movies this summer? Emma Roberts (
Wild Child), Abigail Breslin (
Kit Kitteredge), Meryl Streep (
Mamma Mia!) and the ladies of the sure-to-be-critically-acclaimed
Sex And The City.
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