Show Notes
Hollywood isn't hiring women to run movies and TV shows as much as they were a few years ago, according to a new report. Part of it is because not as much is getting greenlight... but part of it could be because the projects some activist women were put in charge of tanked. Just saying.
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Star Wars is dead party. Taika Waititi's Star Wars movie has officially been "iced" according to him. And Kathleen Kennedy reportedly got legendary comics artist Frank Cho blacklisted from Marvel over his racy Slave Leia sketch covers. Why does Kathleen Kennedy have any say in what Marvel Comics does, again?
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