By Rebecca Keegan Los Angeles Times WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Great Q&A with Alison Eastwood,daughter of legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood who is debuting her second feature as a director, a Mississippi-set drama called...
By Laila Azzeh Jordan Times, Amman. AMMAN Women’s Film Week opened on Sunday, offering a lens into the world of women, their agony and aspirations in patriarchal societies — a characteristic that no country is free of as depicted by the...
By Rebecca Keegan Los Angeles Times. LOS ANGELES When Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for directing in 2010, it looked to be a watershed moment for Hollywood’s premiere creative profession. But on this Oscar...
By Susan Reimer The Baltimore Sun. She divorced her husband, sold all her stuff, bought an outrageous amount of camping gear and set out to walk the Pacific Crest Trail, a trek of more than 1,000 miles from the Mojave Desert to Washington state. She...
By Brittany Shammas Sun Sentinel. Lindsey Averill spent most of her life thinking things would be better if she could just get skinnier. She counted calories and worked out, but still couldn’t reach the size she wanted, the one she saw on TV...
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...