Ah, Hollywood! Barbara Boyle, former senior vice president at Orion Pictures, dubs the place "Boys Town." Director Martha Coolidge calls it "the land of the starlet." Hollywood, though, has always been an industry in which powerful men made films starring beautiful women. The guys ran things--as producers, directors, bosses--and the highest-paid females were so much screen sirloin. The very job descriptions were sexist: cameraman but script girl. And ruling the set, in his safari jacket and jodhpurs, was the director--an amalgam of Da Vinci and De Sade, Patton and Hemingway. A man's man. No girls needed apply.
They are now, though....
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