First, Fox couldn’t sing Palin’s praises hard enough. Then the election ended - and not well for the party Rupert Murdoch supports - and now Fox can’t tell us enough about the “foibles of Sarah Palin.” (They claim they were …

Last week, Melissa Silverstein at Women & Hollywood kindly arranged for me to be invited to a screening of Hounddog last night, complete with a Q&A panel. It was a great opportunity: it’s a film directed and produced …

I love the internet. Unlike TV or movies or publishing, you can get audience feedback almost instantly instead of trying to decipher ratings or polls.

Every so often, I like to ask you, dear readers, what you want from Hathor. More …

I’ve just set up a LiveJournal community for women in the media to network with each other. I’ve invited some female film professionals and a few bloggers I know who write about women in film, TV, comics, gaming, books, etc. …

A few months ago, I said the following in a comment:
For example, I like Fight Club because as *I* read the story, it breaks down the myth that the cult of masculinity is where a man finds his identity …

Advertisements for men’s deoderants and skincare products have been advising them, essentially, that the products emit scents that don’t so much appeal to women as whip us into a hormonal frenzy that forces us to jump the bones of whatever …

In the interests of full disclosure, writer/director Glenn Gers requested that I review his movie disFIGURED, and provided me a DVD copy of it. From the online trailer, I saw he’d made a very ambitious effort: the …

It took producer Barney Rosenzweig years to convince MGM to release a single season of Cagney & Lacey. They said they would release additional seasons if this one did well, so they released it without any marketing (way …

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I’ve lately been on a crusade to watch commercially successful films that broke the usual Hollywood rules against including women to any significant degree unless the movie is about shoe shopping and boys, boys, boys. One such classic is …