Women directors take record number of Emmy nods, if not TV jobs

On "Homeland," the CIA's Carrie and ex-Marine Brody, both exhausted and in tears, engage in the mother of all interrogations for a full 15 minutes until Brody finally admits that he's an agent for a global terrorist. In the moving, delightfully funny send-off to "30 Rock," Jack Donaghy reveals he's staged an elaborate suicide fake-out just to prove how much Liz Lemon will miss him. What these stand-out sequences have in common is that each is recognized with an Emmy nomination for outstanding directorial achievement, and each was directed by a woman.

Of this season's 10 Emmy nods for directing episodic television, fully half recognize women ? three for comedy and two for drama. (Two women are also recognized in the movies and miniseries category, bringing the total to seven). That's the most in the history of the awards, and it's notable because the industry has been notoriously slow to admit women to the ranks of episodic television directors.

Of more than 3,100 episodes of television in the 2011-12 season (the most recent for which data are available from the Directors Guild of America), just 15% were directed by women. But a survey of recent Emmy years suggests that when they do get the gig, women are doing exemplary work.

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Lesli Linka Glatter is nominated for "Homeland" for the second year in a row and was up for directing "Mad Men" in 2010. Gail Mancuso is recognized for the second time for "Modern Family." Michelle MacLaren is on her third nomination for "Breaking Bad." Lena Dunham has been nominated twice for directing "Girls" (which she also writes, produces and stars in). Beth McCarthy-Miller, who directed the hourlong "30 Rock" finale, has been nominated seven times before.

McCarthy-Miller says she has d?j? vu from 2011, when she, Mancuso and Pamela Fryman ("How I Met Your Mother") were three of the five comedy nominees. "It used to be there were no female comedy directors," McCarthy-Miller said. "Then two years ago, three of us were nominated at once. No one said a word about it, but we were so excited we all went out to dinner together to celebrate."

It isn't that female directors want to be singled out ? it's just the opposite. Said Glatter about the Emmy recognition: "It seems people are able to look at the work and be gender-blind, and that's all that women directors have ever wanted." Rather, the focus the nominations raise is why industry biases against female directors are allowed to persist.

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The DGA, in its 2011-12 study, listed a dozen series that hired women for fewer than 5% of their episodes, including several that hired none (the data exclude series that use only one or two directors through the season). Most recently, the guild has shifted its efforts to effect change from the corporate to the creative level.

"We believe that any real change must happen at the show level, where executive producers, producers and all those involved with the creation of the show must become champions of diversity," a DGA spokesperson said. The guild compiles lists of women and minority directors that it makes freely available to show runners, among other measures.

"It's still a relatively small pool of women who are getting hired, and that pool has to get bigger," said Glatter, who makes a point of mentoring other women. Some say that what they witness day-to-day in their working lives suggests the tide may be turning.

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"I'm running into a lot more women directors, and also strong and talented women at the assistant director level," said McCarthy-Miller, who got her first directing shot via producer Lorne Michaels on "Saturday Night Live."

"It's time ? it's just time," added Mancuso, who became a principal director on "Roseanne" not long after Roseanne Barr agreed to let her direct for the first time. "The numbers have been dismal in the past, but I'm feeling extremely optimistic."

Critic Alan Sepinwall, writing on Hitfix.com about the nominated episode of "Breaking Bad," observes: "Director Michelle MacLaren has been behind the camera for the series' most exciting action sequence (the shootout at the end of 'One Minute'), and arguably its most visually stunning episode ('4 Days Out'), and I think she may have just topped the latter. Every frame of 'Gliding Over All' couldn't have been more beautifully assembled ? with one image bleeding seamlessly into the next. Even by the standards of this technically brilliant show, this was something."

Said Glatter, "We're in a golden age now. It's great to be doing the work that all of us are doing on television. You don't ever think about awards while you're in the process, but it is overwhelming and humbling to be nominated."

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Porsche forum claims eco-friendly 911 Blu coming to Frankfurt ...

The fiftieth anniversary of the Porsche 911 has been a nearly year-long affair, with unique tributes and even a special anniversary edition with plenty of retro throwbacks. The party is expected to continue through the end of 2013, and if one 911 enthusiast forum is right, we'll see yet another special edition model near the anniversary of the original car's September 1963 debut, when it arrives at next month's Frankfurt Auto Show.

It's called the 911 Blu, and where the 911 50 Years Edition was more expensive than a 911 Carrera S hardtop, the Blu would be an entry level special edition. That's right, a limited run car that actually slots in at the very bottom of the 911 range. According to Porsche forum 911UK.com, the new car would be priced at 74,600 euros ($98,718 at today's rates) or 64,750 pounds. That undercuts the price of a base 911 in Germany by nearly 16,000 euros and in the UK by nearly 8700 pounds (although to be fair, it's roughly identical to the price of a base 911 C2S in the US).

This 911 will reportedly feature a detuned flat-six with 300 horsepower and 211 pound-feet of torque.

This 911 will reportedly feature a detuned flat-six with 300 horsepower and 211 pound-feet of torque, while cylinder deactivation and active grille shutters should help with economy. Stop-start technology will be standard, along with Porsche's new Regeneration System. (There's no explanation of what this system is, by the way.) The wheels will be 18-inchers, and will use hollow spokes for less weight. Porsche's Active Suspension Management will be an optional item rather than standard. Finally, the Blu is reportedly a hardtop convertible.

If you're like us, you're mainlining salt by this point. There are so many things about this proposed special edition that don't make sense that it's difficult to cover them all here. And that's without us even mentioning the woeful Riviera Blue/Guards Red exterior seen above. (No, we aren't kidding.)

First and foremost, there's been nothing from Porsche about this car. Not a peep, not a spy shot, not so much as a hint that something special was coming to Frankfurt. The oft-rumored budget 911 is already available ? it's called the Cayman S. There's even a convertible version called the Boxster S. The reported run to 62 takes 5.4 seconds in the PDK-only car, meaning you will get trampled by most other sports cars that cost half as much as this 911. Who, but the most diehard 911 fanatic, is going to spend this kind of money on a car that will be slower and more expensive than a Cayman S? Also, if Porsche had developed some kind of "revolutionary" hardtop for the 911, why not show it on one of the more robust Carrera models? We could go on.

According to the forum, the 911 Blu will be limited to 911 units (cute), with 300 earmarked for the US market. We'll see if any of this is true when we attend the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show next month.

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/08/01/porsche-forum-claims-911-blu-frankfurt/

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Don't Just Build A Better Mousetrap, Sell It To The World: How To ...

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Google Chromecast: Stream Content From iOS, Android & Chrome

Streaming is the new way to watch TV, and if you were looking for an easy way to stream content from your mobile devices to your HDTV, then this new dongle from Google will certainly do the job.

The Google Chromecast will work with laptops running Chrome browsers, iOS devices, Android devices to stream content to your HDTV. This will allow you to watch video from Netflix, YouTube, Google Chrome, and other services on a larger display. It?s supposed to be a cinch to setup and can even stream content in full 1080p HD with 5.1 surround sound.

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Indiana officials seek cause of fatal church bus crash

A bus carrying teenagers from a youth camp in northern Michigan was just minutes from home when it came speeding off an Indianapolis interstate, struck a retaining wall and flipped on its side.

The accident Saturday afternoon killed three people and injured dozens of others. Now investigators are working to determined what caused the accident that happened after a 390-kilometre journey and just a kilometre or so from the Colonial Hills Baptist Church where the bus was headed.

At the church, parents were waiting to pick up their children after a weeklong camp filled with prayer, zip lines and basketball when a bus carrying younger campers pulled in with passengers screaming.

Jeff Leffew, 44, of Fishers, had sent four daughters to Camp CoBeAc, near Prudenville, Mich. Just one of his girls was on the bus that pulled into the parking lot, and he raced to the crash site in northern Indianapolis. What he found was a surreal scene, with clothing and other items strewn about and windows missing from the bus.

"You're just praying that it's not as bad as it looks," said Leffew, a deacon at the church.

Leffew's daughters escaped with just bumps and bruises, but others weren't as fortunate. Indianapolis fire officials said a husband and wife were dead at the scene, along with a third person whose age they didn't describe. Twenty-six other people were taken to area hospitals, including at least one teenager in critical condition.

'Great tragedy'

Indianapolis Public Safety Director Troy Riggs called the crash a "great tragedy."

"They were not that far from home. ... That only adds to the tragedy," Riggs said at the crash scene.

He said there was no indication that the driver had a medical emergency.

WTHR-TV reported the bus driver told witnesses his brakes failed. Indianapolis Fire Department Lt. Ato McTush said investigators had not determined whether the church-owned bus had mechanical issues.

Witnesses to the crash described a horrifying scene.

Duane Lloyd told WTHR that he heard a loud noise behind him as he was travelling near the intersection and saw the crash around 4:15 p.m. ? about the time youth pastor Chad Phelps had tweeted the group expected to arrive at the church.\

'I heard a skid. I looked back. I see this bus in the air and people falling out of the bus. I could have gone my whole life without seeing that.'?Duane Lloyd, witness to crash

"I heard a skid. I looked back. I see this bus in the air and people falling out of the bus," Lloyd said. "I could have gone my whole life without seeing that."

He said people approached and tried to help.

"People were literally trying to lift the bus," Lloyd said. "You just try to do what you can do."

Sasha Sample, 28, told The Indianapolis Star some victims were lying in the road, while others were able to limp to the side.

"Everybody had boils and scrapes on them," she said. "People were trying to climb from under the bus."

Sample, a nurse, said she borrowed a belt to make a tourniquet for the bus driver's arm but wasn't able to help the man next to him, who was already dead.

"I couldn't do anything for him," Sample said. "So you triage. You help those you can."

Fire officials said 37 people were on the bus and that the injured included children and adults.

Families gather to pray

Nine teenagers were taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital, including one in critical condition. Three of those were treated and released, hospital spokeswoman Sally Winter said. She said 10 others, including nine teenagers and a toddler, were taken to Riley Hospital for Children. Seven of those teenagers were treated and released, Winter said.

Many of the patients had head, arm and leg injuries, fire officials said.

Families of the bus passengers gathered at the church Saturday evening to comfort each other and pray.

Mayor Greg Ballard described many as "remarkably positive" despite their sorrow but said there will be difficult days ahead.

"Some of the teenagers are hurting pretty bad and you can see that in their faces," he said.

Leffew agreed, saying his daughters and other teens on the bus "saw some difficult things" that they'd never had to experience before.

"Their biggest pain is what they saw," he said.

Bob Taylor, who retired as the church's pastor four years ago, said members of the congregation would come together Sunday and take comfort in their faith.

"Our church family will meet tomorrow and pray together and sing songs together and just trust the lord to give his grace," he said.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/07/28/wrd-us-indiana-michigan-indianapolis-colonial-hills-baptist-church.html?cmp=rss

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Former Rep. Lindy Boggs of Louisiana dies at 97

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday. She was 97.

Boggs, who later served three years as ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration, died of natural causes at her home in Chevy Chase, Md., according to her daughter, ABC News journalist Cokie Roberts.

Boggs' years in Congress started with a special election in 1973 to finish the term of her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., whose plane disappeared over Alaska six months earlier. Between them, they served a half-century in the House.

"It didn't occur to us that anybody else would do it," Roberts said in explaining why her mother was the natural pick for the congressional seat. Her parents, who had met in college, were "political partners for decades," she said, with Lindy Boggs running her husband's political campaigns and becoming a player on the Washington political scene.

Roberts called her mother "a trailblazer for women and the disadvantaged."

When Boggs announced her retirement in 1990, she was the only white representing a black-majority district in Congress. "I am proud to have played a small role in opening doors for blacks and women," she said at the time.

As family tragedy brought her in to Congress, so did it usher her out. At the time of her July 1990 announcement, her daughter Barbara Boggs Sigmund, mayor of Princeton, N.J., was dying of cancer. Sigmund died that October.

Her son, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., is a leading Washington lawyer and lobbyist.

The elder Boggs was first elected to Congress in 1940, two years after the couple married. Both were also active in local reform groups.

Lindy Boggs was more than the typical congressional wife. She ran several of her husband's political campaigns and helped him in his Washington and New Orleans offices.

"Early on, Hale established with politicians at home that I was his direct representative and that they could say anything to me that they could say to him. Whatever decisions I made, they would be his final decisions," she said in 1976.

Breaking with most Southern whites, Lindy Boggs saw civil rights as an inseparable part of the political reform movement of the 1940s and '50s.

"You couldn't want to reverse the injustices of the political system and not include the blacks and the poor. It was just obvious," she said in 1990.

She worked for the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 and 1968, Head Start and other programs to help minorities, the poor and women.

After she entered Congress, Boggs used her seat on the House Appropriations Committee to steer money to New Orleans and the rest of the state. As a member of the House Banking and Currency Committee, she used typical steely grace to include women in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.

"I ran into a room where there was a copying machine, wrote in 'sex and marital status' on the bill, and made 47 copies," she said. "When I took it back into the subcommittee meeting, I told them I was sure it was just an oversight on their part."

Boggs changed the way politics operated, former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., once said.

"I've seen it time after time," Johnston said. "On difficult issues, powerful men and women are going toe to toe, sometimes civilly, sometimes acrimoniously. Lindy Boggs will come into the room. The debate will change. By the time she leaves the room, she usually has what she came to get."

As the first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention, in 1976, she decreed that she would be addressed as "Madam Chairwoman," rather than "Madam Chairman" or "Madam Chairperson."

"I'm a woman," she said. And, "Why should it be neuter?"

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, one of the hardest-hit facilities was Lindy Boggs Medical Center, a historic hospital named in her honor the previous year.

Her Bourbon Street home also was damaged and The Washington Post reported in February 2006 that she was living in a hotel nearby.

"There are worlds of friends I miss," she told the newspaper. "The culture is not there."

Corinne Claiborne was born March 13, 1916, on a plantation near New Orleans, a descendant of William C.C. Claiborne, the state's first elected governor. She came to be known as Lindy, according to Roberts, because a nurse thought she looked like her father, Roland Claiborne, and called her "Rolindy."

She attended Sophie Newcomb College, affiliated with Tulane University, and met her future husband when both were editors of the Tulane student paper. She taught school between graduation in 1935 and their marriage in 1938.

As part of a group of well-connected women called the Independent Women's Organization, she took to the street in a "Broom Brigade" in 1945, sweeping the streets to publicize the need to sweep out graft and corruption.

In her first election for Congress, in March 1973, she had to overcome prejudice against her gender and privileged background.

Said her Republican opponent, Robert E. Lee: "I've covered this district by foot, by car, by air. This is something that takes a strong, healthy man. ... A socialite is not going to do this district any good in Congress."

Her constituents disagreed, giving her at least 60 percent of the vote in every election from then on.

In 1991, a room in the Capitol for female members of Congress was renamed the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room to honor her long association with Congress. According to the House website, it was the first, and only time so far, that a room in the Capitol has been named for a woman.

Her Vatican posting was from 1997 to early 2001, and she said her goals were to work with the Vatican on promoting democracy, tolerance, religious freedom, peace and human rights.

In 2000, she announced that she would resign after President Bill Clinton left office, no matter which party won. "It's been an honor and a privilege and a wonderful opportunity to be in this position, but it's also extremely exhausting," she said at the time.

Shortly before Pope John Paul II died in 2005, she joined those praying for him. "I have a thousand wonderful memories of him," Boggs said. "I have been very, very fond of this pope for a very long time."

In addition to her children, Boggs is survived by eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

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Online:

Congressional biography: http://tinyurl.com/lqgom8j

House website: http://tinyurl.com/lwe5ym9

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-rep-lindy-boggs-louisiana-dies-97-124030649.html

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