Super-Lonely!

Check out the cover of this week's USA Weekend, that ubiquitous magazine that accompanies 23 million Sunday papers across the country. Liv Tyler, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Maggie Gyllenhaal are "The Girls of Summer" who promise to "turn up the heat" in "3 upcoming blockbusters". Except these "leading ladies" aren't actually leading much. They're the only women in comic book series turned movies, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and Batman's The Dark Knight. Paltrow is Ironman's "trusted assistant", Gyllenhaal is a "lawyer friend" of Bruce Wayne's, and Tyler is The Hulk's love interest. And the first question posed to the three in their collective interview pretty much says it all: "Was it lonely being the only woman in a comic book movies?" Lonely indeed, for way too many talented women actors these days. If you're interested in where the women are and feminist issues related to women and Hollywood, check out Melissa Silverstein's blog:
http://womenandhollywood.blogspot.com/

Comments

[MizFit]

just ordered your book and CAN NOT WAIT to receive it.

My Toddler Tornado is only two---but as a mom who is fascinated (some might say obsessed. tomato. tomaaaato.) with popculture and the negative ways it impacts our girls and young women I intend to guide her into adulthood with my eyes wide open.

Carla
http://www.MizFitOnline.com

[MizFit]

just ordered your book and CAN NOT WAIT to receive it.

My Toddler Tornado is only two---but as a mom who is fascinated (some might say obsessed. tomato. tomaaaato.) with popculture and the negative ways it impacts our girls and young women I intend to guide her into adulthood with my eyes wide open.

Carla
http://www.MizFitOnline.com

[rebecca]

not related to movies, but totally related to superheroes and kids: look to The Runaways (graphic novel series) by Brian Vaughn! (if you want to be reassured) [stereotypes persist in some ways--but there's so much more. smart girls!--girls getting along with boys getting along with girls to fight evil, TOGETHER! etc. ...dinosaurish pet!...evil parents!...superpowers!]

when these are made into movies?--we'll have something awesome to talk about with the LT, GP, MG equivalents on the cover...

[Jennifer]

I have a great movie idea: 100 Days of Summer! In the movie, a couple of girls start a pop band to raise money for a skate park. They find out that girls CAN rock, but don't have to avoid pop music (unless they're too young) so they turn their pop band into a pop-rock band.

[purchase research papers]

I think Paltrow denied making the statements attributed to her and told People magazine that she never gave an interview to a Portuguese publication, but instead had tried to say in Spanish, during a press conference, that Europe was an "older culture" and Americans "live to work"