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Without women the greatest moments in film this year would not have been possible. The Oscars are less than two weeks away, and "The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow - doubly armed with directing awards from the Director's Guild and BAFTA (British Academy Awards) - is better positioned than any other woman in history to shatter the 81-year-old "Best Director" glass ceiling at the Oscars.
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Did you know how badly women are under-represented in Hollywood? http://bit.ly/oscarwmc In 2009:

1. DIRECTORS: Women directors lost ground, accounting for just 7 percent of directors on the 250 top-grossing movies -- a drop of 2 percent. That's the same number as in 1987
2. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Women comprised only 17 percent of executive producers, and two-thirds of the movies had no female executive producers.
3. CINEMATOGRAPH ERS: Only 2 percent of the 250 films credited female cinematographers.
4. EDITORS: Editing was the technical area with the most women employed. Women accounted for 18 percent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2009. However, 78 percent of those films had no women in the editing suite. In 2008, women accounted for 17 percent of editors on the top 250 films.
5. WRITERS: Only 8 percent of writers were female, and 86 percent of the films had no female writers credited.

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Many of us know about the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident that took place some time ago. Whether you agree or disagree is another thing. Recently, Mary J. Blige was accused of hitting or "Chris Browning" her husband after, allegedly, he looked at a waitress inappropriately. Who knew Chris Brown would coin that phrase but that's what happens when you're famous and you do something horribly ignorant...you get recognition and become "the man".

Anyhow, I had to give Mary her props. I've seen all too many times when a woman is cheated on by her significant other, she will call the other woman and harass her and call her all sorts of names as if it were this woman's fault your man cheated on you. I must say, that's why we don't rule now ladies. Get your priorities straight! Instead of getting mad at this other woman shouldn't you be mad at your significant other whom you thought had enough love and respect for you not to do something so hurtful...that's if that's what the relationship is about of course...cause we know some aint!

So let me pose this question: Why would one get so mad at the "other" instead of their lover? Or, in Mary's case, why didn't she cuss this waitress out? Does this say something about who we are and what we value? GT TV recently interviewed a former prostitute who equated love with sex. She spoke of similar issues. Just sayin...

PS- Captcha was acting dumb for a while but I think we fixed it.