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!).
Jenna Flateman
At the age of 26, Jenna Flateman is already the director of channel sales for Agencynet, a digital advertising agency in SoHo. She also plays for the USA Women’s Rugby team as a winger (American football translation: wide receiver). After witnessing her first World Cup in 2003, Flateman became smitten with the sport, joined the New York Rugby Club (NYRC) and was soon selected to play for the USA Women’s Rugby “7s.” Flateman also finds time to work with the NYRC on starting up local youth rugby teams, fundraising to send kids overseas to play and working with the scholarship-hopefuls on their SATs and college applications. Says Flateman, “It’s rewarding to work with an organization that is so dedicated to the past, present and future.” –DP
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