People: Apr. 3, 2006

Q&A; LILY TOMLIN

This spring Lily Tomlin appears in the 25th anniversary DVD of Nine to Five, the West Wing finale and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.

Doesn't a 9-to-5 workday sound quaint? It's true. The world is just so pressured. Look at the generation we're creating, with Survivor and all that stuff. You're supposed to outwit everybody and double-deal. Nine to Five was trying to bring a female sensibility to the corporate world, which can really grind you down to nothing.

What do you make of modern feminism? One of the failings of the old feminist movement was that...

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