Your own words are incriminating you. To categorize based solely on a desire to point a finger of accusation is the issue here and I suspect you know that, which is why your posts are getting so longwinded in your (failed) attempts at self-justification. (And the “Jews in Hollywood” trope is a pretty stale stereotype,…

who express a speech about diversity that doesn’t match their practices.

Huhhhh? You’re blaming the Jews?!

I had the opposite reaction. Such a brilliant song that there’s no way to ruin it. Celine’s hammy but all that does is prove what a gorgeous song it is. I’m not getting Stassa’s hilarity on this one. (But yes, pitchy.)

Well, anyone would be better than Trump, such a scary thought (despot, anyone?) but Hillary is a war hawk.

I think JL’s point was that she accepted a lowball offer and didn’t instruct her agent to push harder. Agents go in with permission. It sounds like JL said, Oh let’s just take it, and didn’t want to make any further demands. If she instructs her agent to stop, the agent is obligated to stop.

Yes and no. Of course she wouldn’t have spoken to Amy Pascal at Sony directly, but I don’t think JL was implying that. Seems to me she was simply saying that she should have pressed for more money but didn’t want to come across as a brat. I understood that to mean that she instructed her agent to close the deal,…

“That Lawrence still feels the need to mitigate her demand for equal pay in a multi-billion dollar industry within the language of likeability is perhaps the most interesting part of the interview.” I totally agree. The “it’s all my fault” thing seems to be a continuation of the very thing she’s arguing against. It…

That is absolutely not true. As a person in the film business I can tell you that agents absolutely speak to their clients about whether to continue the dealmaking or close it (they can be fired, you know — there are other agents chomping at the bit, especially for JL). But what interests me, as is touched on in this…

Related article. (Jessica Chastain wrote this about her experience on the women-driven set of “The Zookeeper’s Wife.”)

Old stereotypes. Not many ‘casting couches’ anymore, really. And I know some extraordinarily intelligent actors (trained for the stage, usually, and well educated in history, world politics and literature, more than most of us). Brad Pitt seemed to be suggesting that his family is always on the move, but used a term…

Please describe the audition process! I’ve always wondered about this. Is it in person? On tape?

Right. If there’s a chance she’d get breast cancer from HRT then that would be nixed. I’m sure she’s cold-turkeying it just like a lot of us. She says different things in different interviews, or they’re edited differently for emphasis. Another recent interview talks about her difficulty with the hormone changes after…

I recently read an interview elsewhere in which she spoke about how intense her hormone plunge was after ovarian surgery (which she admitted was very difficult), so I think this other publication is painting an untruth. I find it nearly impossible to believe that she just swanned through it, no matter how pretty she…

As someone who just recovered from estrogen-positive breast cancer (while on hormones, which I sadly had to ditch), I’m with your doctor. I didn’t think it could happen to me but there ya go. Menopause came crashing in, very abruptly, mostly in hot flashes and sleeping badly. The rest is endurable. I loved HRT, but it…

I finally got over the stigma of thinking we were weird and started sleeping in a separate bed (it’s next to my husband’s but can be moved away) — MARRIAGE SAVER, no kidding. The idea that we’re supposed to love someone so much that snoring like a freight train in our ear all night shouldn’t matter is BOGUS. This used…

I did. It isn’t. It’s the usual Sorkin self-aggrandizing over-the-top all-about-Sorkin headache-inducing nonstop verbage and with no interesting story. Sorkin’s writing is always about Sorkin.

I’m still in the business (somehow) and second your experiences. Jezebel should do a Pissing Contest about women’s sexist treatment in the movie biz. (As for me: famous actor deep in his 70s now spent two hours at a pitch meeting talking about his son’s pubic hair, then asked me to come back for a ‘second meeting’ (I…

I can’t seem to edit my post about ‘Zookeeper’s Wife,’ but I want to add that the Production Designer, Art Directors, Costume Designer, 4 Producers, Stunt Coordinator, set publicist, still photographer, and WILD CAT HANDLER (yes) are, obviously, women.

Maybe no one wants to see these movies because they’re just not good movies. And I don’t know how you define ‘Oscar bait’ — are all adult dramas Oscar bait? Still, I hope Jezebel gives attention to “The Zookeeper’s Wife” when it emerges next year. Oscar bait or not, it was made mostly by women, it took many years to…