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!).
Linda Fusco
FUSEevents was born when Los Angeles resident Linda Fusco and her business partner Michelle Agnew got sick of predictable club atmospheres and throwback aesthetics and decided to create the fresh women’s party scene they were looking for. FUSE’s hip, upscale appeal caught on quickly, and their events expanded. Fusco can be seen in Gimme Sugar, LOGO’s new reality show based on Truckstop, FUSE’s weekly Friday night party, which Fusco describes as “how West Hollywood would do Coyote Ugly.” Fusco and Agnew are planning to take Truckstop nationwide, with stops in San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and New York. Tonight, L.A.; tomorrow, the world! –MF
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