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!).
Kim Stolz
“My sexuality has only helped me in every opportunity that I’ve been given,” says Elite model and MTV VJ/News correspondent Kim Stolz. “I feel like when I was on America’s Next Top Model, I was able to break and transcend stereotypes by simply being a lesbian,” says the New York native. Stolz began her new career as an MTV News correspondent last July, and hopes the experience will allow her to springboard into a future career in news reporting and political programming. “I hope that I represent the LGBTQ community well,” says Stolz, “but also that I appeal to a wider community by working hard to VJ, model and report efficiently.” You can bet that the world will be watching. –JB
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