The WaPo runs an article (which I’ve read 100 times before but it bears repeating—though perhaps in a less harpy fashion) about the lack of strong female roles in films, pegged to Amelia’s tanking.
The fact that Amelia is terrible, they don’t seem to want to say.
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In the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s — years when stars like Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand, Sally Field and Goldie Hawn were making movies in a diverse number of genres — studios were not, as they are now, subsidiaries of multi-corporations, responsible for contributing to quarterly bottom lines. With economic pressures greater than ever, studios are looking for movies that are guaranteed to make $100 million their first weekend out. The result: More Paul Blarts, fewer Erin Brockoviches.
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