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Category: Film
A few days left to contribute to Vicious Women by Jennifer Lee
- By Melanie Breault
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JENNIFER LEE’S NEW film, Vicious Women, is a documentary about an Atlanta lesbian couple fighting to save the environment in their rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. There are still a few days left to contribute to their kickstarter campaign. Click…
The Resurgence of Women of a Certain Age in Arts & Entertainment
- By Jeremy Lentz
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ALTHOUGH HILLARY CLINTON may not have broken that glass ceiling in November, we nevertheless are seeing a surge in women of a certain age breaking new boundaries and shattering records. However, politics and culture don’t always follow the same trajectory. Pop music singers, Broadway divas…
Lois Robbins, Actress
Lois Robbins is one busy actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles on the daytime soap operas - "One Life to Live," "Loving," "Ryan's Hope", and "All My Children. She has also guest starred on "Sex and The City," "Law and Order", "Kingpin" and "Once and Again." Lois' film credits include "Blowtorch", "Juvie," and "Ithaca," directed by and starring Meg Ryan. Then there's theater. She has starred in a pair of world premier musicals - "My History of Marriage" and "A Time for Love." Lois has also written a one-act play - "L.O.V.E.R - Baring it All." And if all that isn't enough, she's writing a novel. Listen in as Lois shares talks about her varied and accomplished acting career.
Letters From Baghdad Screening in New York City this week and next
- By Melanie Breault
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LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD is a documentary that tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire who shaped the modern Middle East after World War I in ways that still reverberate today.
Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum, Filmmakers
Thanks to filmmakers Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Olelbaum, the world can finally meet and get to know Gertrude Bell, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. "Letters from Baghdad," their feature documentary, details how this extraordinary woman helped shape the modern Middle East following World War I. In spite of being called the 'female' Lawrence of Arabia, Bell has been virtually written out of its history...until now. There's lots to learn from this fascinating conversation.