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!).
Dani Campbell
Most of us know Dani Campbell as the foxy Floridian firefighter contestant on the first season of MTV’s reality show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. Although Tila chose Bobby in the end, Campbell is enjoying newfound fame. “I’ve been spending a lot of time on getting my clothing line, Futch Apparel up and running. My business partner and I try to add a new piece of clothing every month. We’re hoping to have an entire collection by September 2008,” she reports. She’s also filming a top-secret new show for LOGO and sharing her experience through various speaking engagements. “I want people to really embrace what they believe in and stand up for their rights…,” Campbell says. “The one thing I always tell people of all ages is, ‘If you’re not proud of who you are…then how can anyone else be?’”. –KL
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