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!).
Brynn Taylor
Beautiful Brynn Taylor is the house DJ at Truckstop, FUSEevent’s Friday night women’s party in Los Angeles. “Taping Gimme Sugar was one of the most challenging musical experiences of my life—but I loved every minute of it!” she says of LOGO’s new reality show about the women of FUSE. Taylor recently graduated from the Conservatory program at The Second City, and has “hosted everything from wet t-shirt contests to self-help videos. Which is exactly what you need to watch after seeing too many wet t-shirt contests.” Taylor also donates her time to Eve Enslar’s VDay West LA, Aqua Girl (which benefits the Aqua Foundation) and Women’s Night at The Music Box, which benefits the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. –CL.
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