{"id":850,"date":"2005-03-08T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/03\/08\/march-8th-women-and-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T21:56:00","slug":"march-8th-women-and-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/march-8th-women-and-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8th, women and entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve come a long way, but there&rsquo;s still a lot of work to do:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,4120,1432155,00.html\">Why are women directors such a rare sight? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Kirstie Alley is considered too fat to get a job in Hollywood, so she created her own show. It&rsquo;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themovienetwork.ca\/fatactress\/\">Fat Actress<\/a>, and the pilot is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.yahoo.com\/feature\/fatactress.html\">Yahoo TV<\/a>. There&rsquo;s something a bit pathetic about this &laquo; unscripted comedy &raquo; but hey, Larry David in <em>Curb Your  Enthusiasm<\/em> was also pathetic, in his own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve come a long way, but there&rsquo;s still a lot of work to do: &#8211;Why are women directors such a rare sight? -Kirstie Alley is considered too fat to get a job in Hollywood, so she created her own show. It&rsquo;s called Fat Actress, and the pilot is available on Yahoo TV. There&rsquo;s something a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/march-8th-women-and-entertainment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 8th, women and entertainment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}