"This business is really about clubby relationships. If you buy Variety or go online and look at the deals, you see one guy after another smiling in a baseball cap. It's all guys making deals with other guys. I had a female studio chief a couple of years ago tell me point blank that she wasn't hiring a woman to do an action movie because women are good at certain things and not others. If you have women buying that bullshit how can we expect men to be better?" - Manohla Dargis, NY Times film critic, (via Jezebel)
Another edition to my slowly growing list of film resources... Not Coming to a Theater Near You assumes a bias Read more
 "Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will Read more
A good friend of mine recently pointed me to Loose Change. It is a 9-11 documentary that is supposed to Read more
I came up with this list while joining a production that was halfway through shooting. The producer had quit earlier Read more
On why women in Hollywood aren't faring any better: "This business is really about clubby relationships. If you buy Variety Read more
La Roux (real-name Elly Jackson) shared this in an interview with Fabulous magazine: "I don't feel like I'm female or Read more
documents from one of my MAPPs foster-to-adopt training sessions "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who Read more
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="figure from one of my altars"][/caption] Happy Dia de los Muertos weekend! While many celebrate Halloween, Read more
