100 WOMEN WE LOVE 2008
Lily Tomlin’s extraordinary career as a funny lady bloomed on the TV show Laugh-In in 1969, the year of the Stonewall rebellion. Fittingly, she has woven feminism and LGBT life into her characters—the not-so-hardworking phone operator Ernestine, Violet Newstead in 9 to 5 and the numerous personas populating The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the one-woman play written by Tomlin’s partner Jane Wagner, for which Tomlin won a Tony Award. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Linnea Reese in Robert Altman’s Nashville, played recurring roles on TV shows from Murphy Brown to The West Wing, and has won six Emmys, a Grammy, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1977. Tomlin, who has called Wagner the most influential person in her life and career, narrated 1995’s landmark LGBT documentary The Celluloid Closet. –KL
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Hats off to the 100 Women We Love, class of 2008 (in no particular order, ’cause we love ’em all!).
Julia Weeks
Associated Press Photo Editor Julia Weeks is a Memphis native who moved to New York to pursue photography. After interning at Newsday, she landed a job as a photo editor at WireImage and a job as photographer for the New Jersey Nets. During her tenure at Associated Press, Weeks has edited photos of the Emmys, the American Music Awards, and Fashion Week. Most recently, she flew to Chicago to assist an AP photographer with the United States Olympic Summit. “I get to look at photos all day and pursue my passion for taking them,” she says. “I enjoy what I do, I love meeting new people along the way, and I look forward to what the future may hold.” –LM
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