By Angela Carella The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Lucy Loglisci’s story would not be remarkable if it had not happened when it did. She ran a successful restaurant in downtown Stamford, but she did it in the 1950s, when few women worked outside...
By Rebecca Keegan Los Angeles Times. LOS ANGELES “Frozen,” Disney’s animated musical about a pair of royal sisters, was last year’s highest-grossing film worldwide, and also one of its most unusual, according to a study...
By Haven Orecchio-Egresitz Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass. HYANNIS The nearly 90 people at the Cape Codder Resort and Spa who attended a Thursday night screening of “Ethel,” a film about the life of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s...
By Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times. Is college, specifically the elite four-year residential model, overrated? Is it worth its ever-increasing cost? Has it been oversold as the key to a child’s brighter future? The stimulating documentary...
By Colin Covert Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS Gia Coppola didn’t consider it inevitable that she’d enter the family business. It was James Franco who nudged her into moviemaking. Coppola, who studied photography at Bard College, had sent...
By Elizabeth Lowder The Anniston Star, Ala. It has been more than a year since local activist Lilly Ledbetter signed a deal to turn her crusade for equal pay for women in the workforce into a movie. But since organizers of the Athena Film Festival...
By Susan Dunlap Silver City Sun-News, N.M. SILVER CITY Kathryn Bertine, 38, didn’t know when ESPN gave her a reporting assignment in 2006 that it would lead, eventually, not only to a career in women’s cycling, but also to a documentary...
