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!).
Stephanie Tamez
Don’t try to pin down tattoo artist Steph Tamez’s style. “I’ve been pretty eclectic,” she says. “I’ve done a pretty wide range of things.” Since 2001, Tamez has worked at New York Adorned, the Big Apple’s premiere body modification salon. She began her career as a print and on-air graphics designer in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, before working as an airbrush artist for Tower Records in San Francisco. Her passion for the permanent and personal art of tattoo began when she gave herself her first: a question mark. Tamez has since shot to the top of her field, and was honored by New York Magazine as one of the city’s top inkers. –LL
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