Older Women Make Major Progress In 2015 Emmy Award Nominations
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Emmy Awar Nominations: Full List of 2015 Emmy NomineesVariety
15 Of The Emmys’ 18 Leading Actress Nominees Are Over 35 Huffington Post
The 2015 Emmy Nominees are noteworthy in the women’s category for age diversity. In the category for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Amy Schumer is the youngest at 34, and Lily Tomlin at 75 replaces Betty White as the oldest nominee in the category. White was nominated at 69 for ‘Golden Girls’ in 1991. Tomlin costars with Jane Fonda in the Netflix show ‘Grace and Frankie’.
Two African American women in their 40s are nominated for lead actress in a drama — Taraji P. Henson and Viola Davis). Davis said in a roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter, “I had never seen a 49-year-old, dark-skinned woman who is not a size two be a sexualized role in TV or film… I’m a sexual woman, but nothing in my career has ever identified me as a sexualized woman. I was the prototype of the ‘mommified’ role.”
Zeba Blay writes for Huff Po:
Hollywood perpetuates the straight male fantasy that every woman who is on screen, no matter her age or station in life, should be “fuckable” (in the eyes of white heterosexual male viewers). But this year’s Emmy nominees prove that pandering to that kind of audience is unnecessary and boring — there’s so much more out there. Davis doesn’t have to play the mom or the “Law & Order” judge just because she’s 49, and conversely Amy Schumer doesn’t have to play the dumb blonde type — instead, she can satirize it.
If substantial progress has been made on age and racial diversity, Variety reminds readers that only three women were nominated out of 23 in top writer-director categories. The Academy promoted this reality as a 60% increase in the number of women nominated, but Variety pans this fact “at a time when the market place for TV series is expanding rapidly.”
Boys Club | Cosby-Funded Smithsonian Art Exhibit Under A Cloud As More Damning Cosby Deposition Details Revealed
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Bill Cosby’s Damaging 2005 Philadelphia Deposition
Bill Cosby, in Deposition, Said He Used Fame and Drugs to Seduce Women New York Times
With the release of Bill Cosby’s 2005 Philadelphia deposition , details about his eventually settled sexual assault case with Andrea Constand — and other young women, too — are jaw- dropping.
Simply stated, there is very little difference between Cosby’s statements in the deposition and the claims of as many as 50 women who allege that Cosby drugged them and assaulted them under the pretense of mentoring and befriending.
Cosby — and now his wife Camille — insists that all sexual acts were consensual, that the women willingly took the drugs to relax and engaged freely in sex-related activities with him. It’s revealed in the deposition, though, that when asked if Ms. Therese Serignese, who Cosby met at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1976, was able to consent to sex when he gave her quaaludes in 1976, Cosby responded “I don’t know.” Cosby offered Serignese money for good grades.
As we reported a week ago, Bill Cosby acknowledged acquiring seven prescriptions for quaaludes which could be used to drug his targets. The 78-year-old comedian and chief moralizer about good behavior to America’s African American community admitted only to giving Benadryl to Constandin an effort to relax her.
Smithsonian Stands Firm On Cosby-Financed Exhibition
Smithsonian To Post Sign At Exhibition Featuring Bill Cosby-Owned Art NPR
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington has refused to curtail its current exhibition ‘Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue’, posting instead a sign telling visitors that the exhibition including art owned by Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, is “fundamentally about the artworks and the artists who created them, not Mr. Cosby,” representatives for the Smithsonian Institution say.
The museum acknowledges that it has received $716,000 from the Cosby family — an amount that totally funded the entire exhibition that opened in November 2014 —, and the family’s views are heavily woven into the fabric of the show’s online publicity, wrote The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones.
Actor Abbey Lee Talks Model Industry, Saying There's No Security In Getting Paid For Your Looks
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Actor Abbey Lee Talks Model Industry, Saying There's No Security In Getting Paid For Your Looks
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Abbey Lee: ‘There is no security in getting paid for your looksThe Guardian
Australian actor and model Abbey Lee (Kershaw) is blunt about the fashion industry in her sit-down with writer Alexandra Spring. Largely gone from the fashion spotlight these days, Abbey Lee is focused on her acting career, appearing in George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ an upcoming action flick ‘Gods of Egypt’ and now ‘Ruben Guthrie’.
Filmwriter-director Brendan Cowell’s “celebrated stage play”, will be a film about an alcoholic ad exec who receives an ultimatum to stop drinking by his supermodel girlfriend Zoya.
Lee says she could see Cowell’s point in an email delineating the parallels between Zoya and Abbey Lee for real. “[Zoya’s] decision to leave something that was bad for her – that might have been a really hard decision for her to make – and venture into something unknown was something I was going through at that very time.”
Coincidentally, Abbey Lee is writing her own semi-autobiographical film about addiction, although she refused to discuss it in this interview. Read on in Fashion & Style.
Helly Luv, The 'Kurdish Shakira' Takes On ISIS With 'Revolution' Video
/The New York Times ‘Women in the World’ (formerly of The Daily Beast) features pop star Helly Luv, dubbed the ‘Kurdish Shakira’. In her new video ‘Revolution’, Luv rallies men and women in a Kurdish war zone.
“People all around the world, round the world don’t be scared. Come together let ‘em know, let ‘em know, we’re right here,” she sings throughout the video that features real people facing the day-to-day threats of Islamic militants.
Vice writes that the redhead is on ISIS’s radar for ‘Revolution’. Her ‘Revolution’ video was shot about two miles away from the front line separating ISIS militants and the Kurdish Peshmerga troops.
Helly Luv and her Peshmerga mother fled Iran for Turkey, days after she was born. They lived homeless in Turkey for several years before moving to Finland as refugees. At age 18 Helly moved to LA and made contacts in the music business before returning to the Middle East to create music and videos that combat terrorism with messages of pride, unity and peace.
In her own words, Luv reveals her determination to stand up to ISIS.
‘Revolution’ is not only the story of Kurds. It’s the story of us all, because ISIS is not just the enemy of Kurds; they’re the enemy of the whole world. It’s our own responsibility to come together, unite, and fight against them. If we don’t, then tomorrow they will expand; they will get more powerful. I went to Los Angeles and created “Revolution” with the same producer and the same staff who did “Risk It All,” and it was the most difficult song to record; I was basically crying the whole time. Violence and terrorism is everywhere. Yesterday, it was in Germany, before that it was Tunis, and before that it was Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Update Kurdish Women Fighters
AOC has followed the incredible story of the Kurdish Women Fighters who are taking on ISIS.
RT.com filmed a documentary ‘Her War: Women VS. ISIS’, telling the story of young Kurdish women in Syria who are defending their country while advancing their hopes of self-government. The Kurds are an ethnic group that is culturally and linguistically related to Iran. The Kurdistan region spans adjoining parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
A new article at Muftah centers on Western media’s romancing of the Kurdish women fighters, promoting them as seekers of democracy.
Coco Rocha Is 'A Model Mom' In Chris Nicholls Images For Fashion Magazine
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Top model and new mom Coco Rocha introduces us to daughter Ioni Conran in ‘A Model Mom’. Coco is lensed by Chris Nicholls and styled by Zeina Esmail for the latest issue of Fashion Magazine. Coco opened an Instagram account for Ioni at birth, and she has nearly 40,000 followers.
Mario Sorrenti Captures Model Siblings For Balmain Fall/Winter 2015/16 Ad Campaign
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Photographer Mario Sorrenti captures siblings for Olivier Rousteing’s Balmain Fall/Winter 2015/16 ad campaign. Models featured include sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner, Erika and Joan Smalls, Bella and Gigi Hadid, and brothers Armando and Fernando Cabral.
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