Category Archives: Female thinking

Random quote #6

Posted on Thursday 15 July 2010 by Hazel

I’ve had some professional studio meetings, and the ones where I really got glammed up, I’ve had questions like, “You didn’t really write that script, did you?” I’ve actually had a couple of producers or executive people ask me that … Continue reading →

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“mums aren’t good at being funny”

Posted on Friday 11 September 2009 by Hazel

Don’t ask why but I recently watched an edition of The One Show (broadcast on 22nd July 2009) with Hugh Dennis as the studio guest. The presenters asked him about the lack of women on such shows as Mock the … Continue reading →

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Women

Posted on Thursday 20 August 2009 by Hazel

I am quite taken with Vanessa Engle’s work. Her series Jews was fascinating and insightful and understated. She lets her subjects do the talking while she asks seemingly innocuous questions off-screen. Her earlier series Lefties featured a programme devoted to … Continue reading →

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Call me kooky-pants

Posted on Saturday 25 July 2009 by Hazel

Angel – “Apocalpyse, Nowish” (Steven S. DeKnight) WARNING: THIS CONTAINS RAMBLING I have been struggling to find a reason just why Angel just doesn’t engage me in the way that Buffy does. I have some idea: in “Apocalypse, Nowish”,  Angel, … Continue reading →

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People I admire (and who happen to be left-handed) #4

Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2009 by Hazel

Emma Thompson Emma Thompson has been part of my life for over twenty years. In fact, the Thompson family has been part of my life since the day I watched The Magic Roundabout on TV. Not only is she an … Continue reading →

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Bechdel (again)

Posted on Friday 5 June 2009 by Hazel

I just came across this website devoted to the Bechdel Test (via My Buffyholism is Showing). Why haven’t I seen the Oscar winning film There Will Be Blood? Because a film styled as a “story about family, greed, religion, and … Continue reading →

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Writing women (links)

Posted on Thursday 4 June 2009 by Hazel

I recently read this rather old interview with the estimable Graham Linehan (Father Ted, The IT Crowd, etc) in which he said, I would probably be more comfortable writing just two men. I do find it hard to write for … Continue reading →

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Mad Men randomness

Posted on Wednesday 3 June 2009 by Hazel

Now that I am as up-to-date with Mad Men as anyone except Matthew Weiner, I can read Basket of Kisses with gay abandon. It really is a super fansite with great interviews. For example, there is this insightful one with … Continue reading →

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I’m pregnant

Posted on Tuesday 26 May 2009 by Hazel

Mad Men – “Meditations in an Emergency” (Matthew Weiner and Kater Gordon) This season ender doesn’t have the power of “The Wheel” but it does have the best scene so far when Pete confesses to Peggy that he loves her … Continue reading →

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Random stuff

Posted on Wednesday 13 May 2009 by Hazel

I thought Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan‘s Demo (2005) was a tremendous piece of work: certainly one of the best comics I have read in the last year. It seems that Becky is a pretty good writer too as this … Continue reading →

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