by Ken Eisen
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Gritty Woman
On Hollywood’s downtrodden eco-chicks, and how they’ve changed 0
Posted 3 years, 8 months ago "A working-class hero is something to be," said John Lennon. But for Hollywood, it's more likely to be a working-class heroine -- at least when environmental issues enter the picture.
Charlize Theron in North Country.
Photo: 78th Academy Awards®
This year, Charlize Theron's crusading miner-activist in North Country garnered an Oscar nomination, following in the footsteps of such Academy-lauded turns as Sally Field's in Norma Rae (1979), Meryl Streep's in Silkwood (1983), and Julia Roberts' in Erin Brockovich (2000). While Theron didn't… Read More
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The Revolution Will Not Be Discounted
New Wal-Mart documentary may be a sign of upheavals to come 7
Posted 4 years ago Last week's release of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price -- not, for the most part, in movie theaters, but rather in "churches, family businesses, schools, living rooms, community centers, and parking lots," as the film's website puts it -- marks a high-water moment in leftist media-based organizing.
Image: walmartmovie.com.
Director/producer Robert Greenwald adopted a similar strategy last year with his Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, but that work never scored the 7,000-plus play dates the new film claimed for its premiere… Read More
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