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Vivienne Segal
Actress Vivienne Segal was best known for creating the role of Vera Simpson in the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey, for which she sang what would become her signature song, “Bewitched, Bothered,...
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Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette has navigated a career path from Hollywood to television and back again, culminating in a landslide of nominations and awards for her supporting role in 2014’s Boyhood. Arquette, a...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has garnered critical acclaim for her performance in difficult roles in 2002’s Secretary, 2009’s Crazy Heart, and 2014’s The Honourable Woman. The daughter of director Stephen...
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Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo credits her heritage as a “North London, working-class, black, Jewish girl” with giving her the range to act in roles ranging from Hotel Rwanda to Doctor Who. Okonedo dropped out of...
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Known best for her Oscar-winning performance in the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love, Gwyneth Paltrow has repeatedly sought out difficult roles playing unconventional women, including playing Sylvia...
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Idina Menzel
A longtime star of the Broadway stage, Idina Menzel became the first person ever to claim both a Billboard Top 10 slot (for Holiday Wishes in 2014) and a Tony Award (for Wicked in 2003). A powerful...
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An Interview with "Hindsight" Creator Emily Fox
Emily FoxIf you still haven't watched Hindsight on VH1, it's time to get with the program. Built on the premise that forty-something Becca—about to marry her second husband—suddenly travels back in...
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Jacqueline Susann
After a breast cancer diagnosis left her determined to leave a real impact on the world, Jacqueline Susann made history as the first author to have three consecutive New York Times bestsellers,...
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Abbi Jacobson
Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for young female comedians, Abbi Jacobson teamed up with fellow comedian Ilana Glazer to create the immensely popular Broad City. Jacobson studied fine art and...
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Ilana Glazer
Ilana Glazer defied the odds for young female comedians by co-creating the popular and critical hit sitcom Broad City with Abbi Jacobson. Glazer began taking classes at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade...
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Comic Renegades
Where were you when you heard the word “Jewess” on television for the first time? If you were watching TV in 1980, it’s safe to say it was during Gilda Radner’s “Jewess Jeans” faux-commercial on...
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Katja Behrens
Part of the first generation of postwar writers in Germany, Katja Behrens grapples with the often difficult relationship between German Jews and the majority. Behrens survived the Holocaust by hiding...
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Judith Light
In her four decades as an Emmy- and Tony-winning actress, Judith Light has repeatedly taken on challenging and unconventional roles, from a housewife-turned-prostitute on One Life to Live to ex-wife of...
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Sarah Jessica Parker
While she is best known as the iconic Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker’s roles in theater, television and film have run the gamut from instant classics like 1984’s Footloose...
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Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick earned praise for a variety of supporting and starring roles in films, but it was her award-winning, seven-year stint as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer that made her a...
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Melissa Gilbert
After a highly successful decade as the lead on Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert defied the odds for child actors by becoming a Hollywood power-broker as president of the Screen Actors...
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Lisa Edelstein
An actress with a long history of activism, House star Lisa Edelstein organized her first protest at age sixteen as a cheerleader for Donald Trump’s New Jersey Generals, outraged that the cheerleaders...
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Mad Men TV Club: The One That Got Away
Maggie Siff and Jon Hamm and Rachel Menken and Don Draper Mad Men is a show about reinvention and regret. Our hero, Don Draper, pulls himself out of an abusive, impoverished childhood and becomes a...
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Mad Men TV Club: Rachel Menken as a Symbol of Difference
Rachel MenkenI, too, was thrilled at the return of Rachel Menken on the Mad Men Season 7 Part 2 premiere. The pleasure was all too brief, however, as it was soon revealed that Rachel had died. Tara...
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Choosing Our Role Models, and Letting Them Go
Miley Cyrus performingLife is constantly changing. Situations change, attitudes change, and people change. We tell ourselves that change is a good thing, and it often is. But sometimes, change can...
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