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The Big Picture: ‘ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME,’ Episode 2
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" is an always-entertaining, often startling, paean to an often irascible, fiercely perfectionistic, always independent, long-lived woman who has no...
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Kirsten Kelly on Film and Theater Directing: Nice Work If You Can Get It
By Deborah Harkins The (pleasant) challenge for 40-year-old director Kirsten Kelly: Mount a play involving 50 brides and 50 flight-suited, helicopter-dangling grooms on the stage of a 60-seat theater.
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‘Women’s Voices for Change’: Celebrating Women in the Second Half of Life
By Gail Sheehy Now we are 6, and our site, "Women's Voices for Change" has broadened its vision beyond its original mission—debunking the universal myths about menopause—to celebrating the power and...
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Crowds and Sounds and the Unexpected
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger The brilliant British filmmaker Lindsey Dryden, deaf in one ear since childhood and threatened with losing her hearing altogether, helps us “hear” the loss, feel the fright,...
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Those Radical Rosies: Keeping Their Stories Alive
By Deborah Harkins “It has taken a couple of generations for the belief in women’s competence to really sink in,” notes producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger. “Women of my generation have it . . . women in...
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Another Opening for Elaine Stritch
In addition to the profound joy I felt in celebrating a good friend's success, what was so moving to me was the chance to see an independent film about an independent woman celebrated and hailed as...
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Diary of a Documentary Filmmaker During Oscars Weekend
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger What's it like out there in Hollywood during Oscars weekend? Playwright/producer/screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger lets us know.
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Diary of an Oscars Weekend, Part II
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger An insider's look at a playwright/producer/screenwriter's working weekend in Hollywood. Many parties are involved.
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Diary of an Oscars Weekend, Part 3
Playwright/producer/screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger offers an inside look at what it was like out there in Hollywood during Oscars weekend. Here’s Part 3 of our series—working the parties on Oscars...
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Wednesday 5: Five Films on Brave and Courageous Women
In this week's Wednesday 5 we honor the start of Women's History Month with five documentaries (all available for streaming on Netflix) featuring the lives and stories of brave and courageous women.
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