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Watch Natalie Portman’s stirring “Power of Women” speech

sudshr47 October 14, 2018

On Friday evening, Natalie Portman delivered a stirring speech at Variety’s “Power of Women” event that resonated beyond the audience as video of the speech spread across the internet, delivering the message of “Time’s Up.”

Beginning with a blistering condemnation of Harvey Weinstein — “Harvey Weinstein, the man whose name has become synonymous with ‘serial rapist,’ might never suffer any legal consequences” — Portman transitioned to a discussion on the lack of gender parity in the entertainment industry and beyond.

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The real-life story behind BoJack Horseman’s episode on forgiving abusive men in Hollywood

sudshr47 September 15, 2018

BoJack Horseman is a show that’s so prescient in its satirization of our culture that it often feels like it’s predicting the future.
Think back to the Oscars screw-up of 2017, which basically happened to BoJack a year before in Season 3, when Mr. Pe…

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‘The Fifth Element’ director Luc Besson under investigation for rape

sudshr47 May 19, 2018

Luc Besson, director of The Fifth Element and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is under investigation by French authorities for alleged rape.
The accusation comes from a formal complaint lodged by an unnamed 27-year-old French actress. A …

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HBO fixed its pay disparities and we have Reese Witherspoon and Time’s Up to thank for it

sudshr47 April 10, 2018

Pay disparities at HBO are a thing of the past – or so says network exec Casey Bloys. And we have Reese Witherspoon and Time’s Up to thank for it.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Bloys claimed that the movement, along with “some conversations with Reese,” had inspired the network to take a good hard look at its own payroll and make some changes.

“We’ve proactively gone through all of our shows — in fact, we just finished our process where we went through and made sure that there were no inappropriate disparities in pay; and where there were, if we found any, we corrected it going forward,” he said. “And that’s is a direct result of the Times Up movement.” Read more…

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New aggregator CherryPicks will highlight female reviewers and women in film

sudshr47 March 16, 2018

It’s no longer news, and maybe it never was, but the entertainment industry is dominated by men. Gender equality is top of mind in Hollywood now, especially with the Time’s Up initiative and the rising popularity of inclusion riders.

The latest effort to champion women in media comes from filmmaker Miranda Bailey (no relation, Grey’s Anatomy fans) who started CherryPicks, which will aggregate movie reviews the way Rotten Tomatoes does, but without the heavy male bias.

“I think it’s a boys’ club,” Bailey told Mashable on the phone this week, referring to film criticism. “I think journalism itself has been a boys’ club for a long time and the parameters to be a hoity-toity film reviewer or whatever, in certain newspapers – it was hard to get that job unless you were a Caucasian man.” Read more…

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Natalie Portman ‘very much’ regrets signing Roman Polanski petition

sudshr47 February 21, 2018

Back in 2009, film industry luminaries signed a petition to release Roman Polanski from a Swiss prison — and now one star is regretting it.

The filmmaker had been detained over a 1977 underage sex case from the U.S., which he plead guilty to. One of the petition’s signatories was Natalie Portman, who told BuzzFeed she “very much” regrets putting her name on it.

“I take responsibility for not thinking about it enough. Someone I respected gave it to me, and said, ‘I signed this. Will you too?’ And I was like, sure. It was a mistake,” she told the news outlet. Read more…

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Catt Sadler speaks out on E! exit: ‘To stay would mean collaborating with an evil system’

sudshr47 February 9, 2018

Last December, Catt Sadler left her 12-year tenure as an E! co-host. Inadvertently, she sparked a revolution by exemplifying the issues that the Time’s Up movement aims to dismantle.

At the time Sadler took to her blog to explain that the reason she left was because she learned her male co-star was being paid nearly twice as much as her for nearly identical work. Now, she’s further detailing the events that lead to her departure for the first time since the event in a Coveteur article.

“I didn’t start out on a crusade to be a voice for gender equality in the workplace; I didn’t have grandiose plans to organize powerful people and roar about equal pay,” she wrote. “I knew in my core that to stay would mean collaborating with an evil system. Swallowing my values was not an option. What happened to me was unfair.” Read more…

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Women in music to man in charge of Grammys: ‘Time’s up, Neil’

sudshr47 February 2, 2018

Recording Academy President Neil Portnow (the man in charge of the Grammys) told women in music they’d have to “step up” if they wanted to win more awards. Today, women in music responded by telling him he’s the one who’ll have to step up if he wants…

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The women of Hollywood have a plan to fight back – and not just in Hollywood

sudshr47 January 1, 2018

The women of Hollywood are fighting back – and not just for themselves.

Over 300 women in the entertainment industry (film, TV, and theater) have come together to form Time’s Up, a wide-ranging initiative that aims to battle systemic sexual harassment not just in Hollywood, but in blue-collar and service industry jobs as well.

The group, which includes Ashley Judd, Eva Longoria, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman, Emma Stone, Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, and Jill Soloway, has issued a statement announcing their intentions: Read more…

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