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!).
Katrina Del Mar
New York City photographer and filmmaker Katrina Del Mar’s reputation for shooting rock stars and American toughies led her to create Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever, the latest installment of her cult film series about all things wheel-related. Del Mar also serves as studio manager for Nan Goldin and as director of hard rock band GSX’s music videos. Also in the works: a feature length rock-n-roll lesbian vampire movie with unusual impalement sequences and a subversive half-hour television show called Fashion Ass. “Shooting tough girls is the body of my work,” she says. “Whether I stay tongue-in-cheek is up for grabs.” –LM
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