SHE IS WOMAN, HEAR HER ROAR

Perhaps our LA people have driven past this billboard. One of our local film critics, Carrie Rickey, did a nice piece in yesterday's Inquirer about the dearth of women directors in Hollywood, and the efforts of the Guerrila Girls to draw attention to their plight. It's nothing we aren't already aware of, but when you are confronted with the stark statistic that only THREE women directors have been nominated for Academy Awards in SEVENTY FIVE YEARS, it does kind of make you wonder why the industry is so shamefully far behind the rest of the world as far as women's professional progress.