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The 'In Character' Blog:
On Air: Jo March
Jun-09-2008
...Foster in the short-lived 2005 Broadway musical version of Little Women. Bryan Bedder, Getty Images When I started to work on this story I dug out the copy of Little...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Hank Stamper
Feb-26-2008
...so it was three years later that I opened its green-lettered white cover, and a wild world of forests, river, men and women opened before my mind's eye. "Never give an inch" is the...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Julia Sugarbaker
Feb-15-2008
...Your Turn: Julia Sugarbaker. From Designing Women, created by Bill KennyNominated by Consuelo Hummons Julia Sugarbaker is "everywoman." When my father was absent and my mother was every...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Tess McGill
Feb-07-2008
...and gumption. She burns to climb the corporate ladder, but no clear path for women.... From Working Girl, directed by Mike NicholsNominated by J.N. Cody Working Girl's Tess McGill is...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Travis McGee
Feb-07-2008
...relationships with women were exotic -- and his quirky encounters with violence attractive. But what grabs me on subsequent readings (five times through all 21 novels) are MacDonald's...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Ferdinand
Feb-04-2008
...mistake, he was put into the ring to fight, he wouldn't. He stubbornly sat there, smelling the flowers in the women's hair, until there was nothing to do but send him home. Since the...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Kinsey Millhone
Feb-04-2008
...Agent 99: women who were strong, smart and drop-dead gorgeous in heels. Enter.... From the Kinsey Millhone books, by Sue GraftonNominated by Brenda Kuhlman As a kid I was mesmerized...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Ennis Del Mar
Jan-31-2008
...Mar puts a face on generations of men and women traditionally pushed to society's margins....
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Coming to Grips with Scarlett Fever
Jan-28-2008
...black women who share my fondness for Margaret Mitchell's vain, willful and, let's face it, emotionally clueless heroine. Like me, they think Scarlett Fever is a complicated business....
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Idgie Threadgoode
Jan-17-2008
...recount of that dramatic life spent with her best friend, Ruth, the close bond the two women shared, and the challenges they overcame together. The inspirational way that Idgie repeatedly...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Betty Boop
Jan-16-2008
...how women were being oppressed and had little rights about what they wore. But Betty won the hearts of men and women alike, fought the oppression and is now back flaunting her curvaceous...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Ann Marie
Jan-15-2008
...viewpoint of a small girl. Especially one whose own father spat out the words "women's lib" and "independent" with the venom of profanity. As many did: the Women's Liberation Movement...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Elle Woods
Jan-14-2008
...for women every where to emulate her persevering character by believing in what may seem like the impossible. Many would have doubted her success, or even her acceptance to Harvard,...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Buffy Summers
Jan-09-2008
...give her power to girls and young women around the world. She was.... From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss WhedonNominated by Michael Allen She knowingly went to her death...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
Your Turn: Pecola Breedlove
Jan-03-2008
...let me sit next to her at lunch, and I would be loved. Pecola is my mother and her three sisters: Black women, born to a housekeeper who banned all games because games were the work...
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The 'In Character' Blog:
New Year's Greetings (Plus an Introduction)
Jan-02-2008
...I'd better go ahead and confess it: I've got a thing for Tennessee Williams' voracious women. Gallant, foolish, frantic Amanda Wingfield, destabilizing her family in the name of preserving...
