Diane Keaton is a Feminist Pornographer?

I love my HBO! Flight Of The Conchords? Check. True Blood? Check Check. And now... an in the works, still untitled half-hour comedy series starring Diane Keaton as a feminist pornographer styled after Gloria Steinem. The shows creator, Marti Noxon, wrote Keaton's pornographer as a feminist icon who attempts to reignite the movement by starting a sexually explicit magazine for women, and will co-produce with Dawn Parouse Olmstead, her partner in Grady Twins Prods., and Keaton.

I love Diane Keaton. She's smart, original, and has done us all a great favor by not hacking up her face. And, if I'm the target market here, they couldn't do better to promote this film than to compare Diane Keaton & the character she'll be playing to Gloria Steinem, a woman who has always appealed to me as a role model, but more & more so as I get older & further realize the importance of the feminist movement...

"There are a lot of similarities between Diane and Gloria Steinem," Parouse Olmstead is quoted as saying of the show in The Hollywod Reporter. "They both grew up in the '50s, a period marked by women finding their relevance sexually, and Diane has been attracted to roles about women exploring their sexuality in films like 'Something's Gotta Give... Keaton has played feminist icons: She portrayed journalist Louise Bryant in 1981 film "Reds" and aviator Amelia Earhart in the 1994 telefilm "Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight."

Sexiest "Older" Women

I think there is a ridiculous amount of agism in the media, but what's even more concerning is the level of hardcore agism in the blog-commenting community. For example, a trip to Just Jared, a site I actually dig for it's semi-kindness to the stars, will yield an unnerving number of civilian remarks on women's looks in general, but especially the over thirty set for looking "old", "haggard", "rough", etc. The standards are pretty high considering the women being negatively commented on are some of the planet's most genetically gifted & physically well-maintained, and I find the mass henpecking to be a demented attempt to control women's bodies. What's especially icky is that a lot of this is coming from females. Do we need another feminist revolution to put these petty pickers to shame? I'm starting to think we do.








The Huffington Post just put up a list of The Worlds 6 Most Beautiful Older Women (of course they could not come up with even ten) & I happen to agree with their selections and give them an A for effort. It's also kind of sexist & weird, so, on second thought, I'll give them an A-.

Their list includes, Helen Mirren, Sophia Loren, Iman, Angelica Houston, Carmen Del 'Orefice, and, my personal fave, Gloria Steinem. I'd like to round out the list to include Mia Farrow, Oprah Winfrey, Susan Sarandon, and Donna Karan. There- a perfect ten.

(And really, I could go on & on & on... Connie Chung, Catherine Deneuve, Debbie Harry, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Diane Sawyer...)

Be Outrageous!

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