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• Good Year for Women in Movies?

  December 22, 2009

  Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Oscar's all-male streak. Other films this year told unconventional stories of women outside the usual mold of Hollywood superstars. But was this actually a good year for women in cinema?

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• Movies, Philadelphia Security Officers, and Alan Grayson

  December 21, 2009

  The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Oscar's all-male streak. Other films this year told unconventional stories of women outside the usual mold of Hollywood superstars. But was this actually a good year for women in cinema?

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