After pivoting from their traditional gala format, Women in Film and 53 celebrity supporters made it work to air the organization’s first-ever virtual special Wednesday night on the CW. Eva Longoria, Alfre Woodard, Jane Fonda and Rita Moreno were among the stars who participated in the one-hour televised event, which championed women in all industries, not just Hollywood.
The variety show, titled “Make It Work” featured celebrities at home, finding creative ways to comment on the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and the upcoming 2020 election.
Ahead of the broadcast Women in Film president Amy Baer explained how the organization found a way to make the show both fun and informative.
“The one thing we promised the CW that we wouldn’t do, is deliver a vitamin,” Baer told Variety. “Because I don’t think anybody wants to be lectured to about anything. Everybody’s doing the best they...
The variety show, titled “Make It Work” featured celebrities at home, finding creative ways to comment on the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and the upcoming 2020 election.
Ahead of the broadcast Women in Film president Amy Baer explained how the organization found a way to make the show both fun and informative.
“The one thing we promised the CW that we wouldn’t do, is deliver a vitamin,” Baer told Variety. “Because I don’t think anybody wants to be lectured to about anything. Everybody’s doing the best they...
- 8/27/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
TORONTO -- Four U.S. films -- Lorene Machado's Bam Bam and Celeste, Adam Rapp's Winter Passing, Joshua Stern's Neverwas and David Ayer's Harsh Times -- will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Tuesday. In all, Toronto announced eight world premieres among nine new titles, with many key distributor territories still up for grabs. Machado's Celeste will unspool as part of the Discovery series, with Margaret Cho and Bruce Daniels starring in a road trip pic about best friends set to appear on a reality TV show. British filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are bringing their freak-show mockumentary Brothers of the Head, which will debut as part of the Visions program. In the Special Presentations program is Training Day scribe Ayer's directorial debut Harsh Times, which is about two unemployed friends, played by Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez, finding trouble in South Central Los Angeles.
- 7/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Four U.S. films -- Lorene Machado's Bam Bam and Celeste, Adam Rapp's Winter Passing, Joshua Stern's Neverwas and David Ayer's Harsh Times -- will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Tuesday. In all, Toronto announced eight world premieres among nine new titles, with many key distributor territories still up for grabs. Machado's Celeste will unspool as part of the Discovery series, with Margaret Cho and Bruce Daniels starring in a road trip pic about best friends set to appear on a reality TV show. British filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are bringing their freak-show mockumentary Brothers of the Head, which will debut as part of the Visions program. In the Special Presentations program is Training Day scribe Ayer's directorial debut Harsh Times, which is about two unemployed friends, played by Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez, finding trouble in South Central Los Angeles.
- 7/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Four U.S. films -- Lorene Machado's Bam Bam and Celeste, Adam Rapp's Winter Passing, Joshua Stern's Neverwas and David Ayer's Harsh Times -- will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Tuesday. In all, Toronto announced eight world premieres among nine new titles, with many key distributor territories still up for grabs. Machado's Celeste will unspool as part of the Discovery series, with Margaret Cho and Bruce Daniels starring in a road trip pic about best friends set to appear on a reality TV show. British filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are bringing their freak-show mockumentary Brothers of the Head, which will debut as part of the Visions program. In the Special Presentations program is Training Day scribe Ayer's directorial debut Harsh Times, which is about two unemployed friends, played by Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez, finding trouble in South Central Los Angeles.
- 7/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Former Madstone Films production executives Eva Kolodner and Yael Melamede have teamed to launch New York-based production outfit Salty Features, with projects in the works by comedian Margaret Cho and Pulitzer Prize winner Don DeLillo. Kolodner was a development director at Killer Films and produced the Oscar-winning Boys Don't Cry. Melamede has worked on such projects as Wayne Wang's Center of the World and Paul Schrader's Forever Mine. Already in development at Salty is Cho's script Bam Bam and Celeste, with Lorene Machado attached to direct and Cho slated to topline the road-trip picture. Cho will play Celeste, who sets out for New York with her best friend Bam Bam, taking on sexism, racism and homophobia along the way.
- 4/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Comedian Margaret Cho returns in her second concert film, "Notorious C.H.O.", with jokes about dicks, menstruation, colonic procedures, video porn, dicks, S&M clubs, oral sex, dicks, the G-spot, Scotland and more dicks. It's not so much that Cho is obsessed with male genitalia as that she recognizes a source of endless humor when she sees it.
Filmed with eight DV cameras in Seattle, one of the first stops on her 37-city North American tour in the fall and winter, the movie captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics. And it sometimes captures her in highly unflattering angles, which makes you wonder why the writer/performer/exec producer didn't clean things up in the editing room. Still, fans -- and even a few non-fans -- Will Love the film.
Less a joke teller -- though she can tell 'em -- than a performer, Cho acts out scenes and characters and accents so you get a pretty good picture of often absurd situations. She will go to a well once too often -- for instance, every "straight man" sounds like a redneck cracker. But she more than makes up for this with a hilarious rendition of her heavily Korean-accented mother.
Cho sees her stand-up comedy as being in the tradition of Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Yet her almost exclusive concentration on sexual matters deprives her work of the wide-ranging social outlook of those pioneering comics. Cho is more of a "minority" comic, meaning a comic who takes up the case of those marginalized by American society, owing less to ethnicity -- though there is that, too -- than to an "outlaw" lifestyle or sexual preferences.
The recording of her show, directed by veteran Lorene Machado, gets the job done but without much flair or imagination. The 95-minute film is padded with unnecessary and self-congratulatory glimpses of a fawning audience coming in and a backstage interview with Cho and her parents that could easily have been saved for a DVD version.
Comedian Margaret Cho returns in her second concert film, "Notorious C.H.O.", with jokes about dicks, menstruation, colonic procedures, video porn, dicks, S&M clubs, oral sex, dicks, the G-spot, Scotland and more dicks. It's not so much that Cho is obsessed with male genitalia as that she recognizes a source of endless humor when she sees it.
Filmed with eight DV cameras in Seattle, one of the first stops on her 37-city North American tour in the fall and winter, the movie captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics. And it sometimes captures her in highly unflattering angles, which makes you wonder why the writer/performer/exec producer didn't clean things up in the editing room. Still, fans -- and even a few non-fans -- Will Love the film.
Less a joke teller -- though she can tell 'em -- than a performer, Cho acts out scenes and characters and accents so you get a pretty good picture of often absurd situations. She will go to a well once too often -- for instance, every "straight man" sounds like a redneck cracker. But she more than makes up for this with a hilarious rendition of her heavily Korean-accented mother.
Cho sees her stand-up comedy as being in the tradition of Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Yet her almost exclusive concentration on sexual matters deprives her work of the wide-ranging social outlook of those pioneering comics. Cho is more of a "minority" comic, meaning a comic who takes up the case of those marginalized by American society, owing less to ethnicity -- though there is that, too -- than to an "outlaw" lifestyle or sexual preferences.
The recording of her show, directed by veteran Lorene Machado, gets the job done but without much flair or imagination. The 95-minute film is padded with unnecessary and self-congratulatory glimpses of a fawning audience coming in and a backstage interview with Cho and her parents that could easily have been saved for a DVD version.
- 6/24/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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