Emily's List Launches Creative Council for Hillary | Shonda Rhimes Spreads Star Power Over Hillary

Lena Dunham may be the front-runner face, as the Clinton campaign tries to light its own fire under millenial voters. But plenty of big names are on board the launch of Creative Council, targeted at reaching this crucial November voting block. Single women, in particular, can turn the next presidential election for Hillary, if they choose to turn out. 

EMILY'S list, committed to launching a campaign to 'disrupt a boys' club', has reached beyond political circles to design a committee of co-chairs that include Dunham's mother Laurie Simmons, Shonda Rhimes, Uzo Aduba (Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren in Orange is the New Black' for which she won a Primetime Emmy), Padma Lakshmi,  and more. 

EMILY’s List has a mission that young women really get. When women lead, we get better, saner laws for women and men everywhere. It’s time to harness our enthusiasm and our expertise to get that message out before November. It’s about the courts, it’s about Congress, it’s about our health and our economic stability and our future. Young women are some of the most motivated people I know – we’re going to turn them into an army of motivated voters over the next eight months.

I'm With Hillary

A new campaign ad delivers a powerhouse message on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Launched last week, Shonda Rhimes gets the high-profile support of colleagues in the sisterhood Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo and Viola Davis in a deeply personal ad directed by Tony Goldwyn (who plays President Fitz on 'Scandal!') 

"Every day I wake up and play a brilliant, get-it-done woman," Kerry Washington says, referencing her character in Scandal. Viola Davis notes that her character onHow To Get Away With Murder is "overqualified" and "obsessively fights for justice," while Ellen Pompeo says that her Grey's Anatomy character "gets knocked down and always gets back up." Does that sound remarkably similar to someone we know?

"Our characters are on television," they say, "but the real world has Hillary Clinton." They go on to call her a "champion for all of us" before declaring, "I'm with Hillary."

Hillary Clinton Set to Appear In March 16 'Broad City'

'Broad City' stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer shared at a SXSW panel on Saturday that 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will appear on Wednesday's episode, March 16. The show's plot shows Glazer's character -- who has been fired for tweeting a bestiality video on her employer's corporate Twitter account -- connecting with the Clinton campaign.

Questioned on the SXSW panel, a young woman asked Glazer and Jacobson why those chose Clinton and not Sanders to showcase, suggesting that Sanders was a better values fit. Jacobson said: "That's not our show, really, we're not making a political stance here. It was really more that this is something Ilana's character would do. And Hillary, regardless of where we stand — and we love Hillary — Hillary is such an iconic figure right now and she has been." Glazer also responded to the question, saying, "We're trying to make really good TV. I wonder how you'll feel after seeing it. I think you'll agree that it's a really good episode of TV because Hillary Clinton is in it."

'Broad City's executive producer Amy Poehler supports Clinton.

Glazer doesn't think they'll be campaigning for Clinton in the near future, but not because they don't support her. "I don't know if that's helpful," says Glazer. "We're these pot smoking characters."

And then there's the matter of the bestiality video.

Feminism 101 | Meryl Streep's Suffragette 'Voting Matters' Teaser Trailer

Meryl Streep ‘Suffragette’ Teaser Trailer

In this too brief teaser of the upcoming movie ‘Suffragette’ we hear Meryl Streep as the voice of strategic reason playing Emmeline Pankhurst, the Susan B. Anthony of Britain, who founded the Women’s Social and Political Union and was devoted to ‘deeds, not words’ in her determined effort to get the vote for British women.

‘Suffragette’s all-star cast that backs up Streep — who won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher — includes Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson. The film opens on both sides of the pond on October 30, 2015.