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Speaking in Baltimore this week, feminist icon Gloria Steinem came across like a really hip great aunt, the kind of woman who’s lived a rich, layered life. But at 84, her days of organizing are largely behind her. Will anyone fill that leadership void? - "Boy, will I miss him," filmmaker John Waters said of Jed Dietz's departure from the Maryland Film Festival.
- Norman Lear singlehandedly changed the scope of television by making funny, penetrating comedies that seemed to be painfully aware of the world beyond the idiot box.
- Amy Schumer's not cool with being tagged as a plus-size inspiration on the cover of a special edition of Glamour magazine. "Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus size?"
- I once told a female friend about a program I created called Equations of Peace aimed at helping girls in conflict areas study math. My friend thought that I didn't know enough to create such a program. When I defended my decision, she started to cry. I've never seen a man cry who wasn't cradling his dead son.
- Ron Anahaw, a senior at the George Washington Carver High School, has won a national Portfolio Gold medal in the 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation's longest running scholarship program for creative teens.
- Leonard Pitts Jr. calls out cowardly male Internet trolls who threaten women with rape for having opinions.
- Towson native Peter Mark Kendall has landed a dream role-- a grad school classmate of Lena Dunham's character Hannah Horvath on the HBO series "Girls."
- If you're a fan of awards shows, drinking isn't required to get through the three-hour self-celebration that is the Emmy Awards. But it sure makes it more fun.
- Fort Tilden, the debut picture from writer-directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers (with co-writer Brian Lannin), is an irreverent comedy about 20-something women struggling to get their lives started in Brooklyn. But this new film suffers from uninteresting, unlikable characters, from half-hearted, predictable jokes, and from dull, unimaginative visuals.
- The first list of 10 films scheduled for the 16th annual Maryland Film Festival includes the Ocean City-set "Ping Pong Summer."
- There's a scene in the first episode of the new web series "BFA" that quickly tells you this isn't another navel-gazer about life as a 20-something in New York or Los Angeles.
- "Looking" doesn't present men dealing with gay issues; it depicts gay men dealing with larger, more universal questions. That sounds like a subtle tonal shift, but it puts "Looking" in the remarkable position of feeling transgressive precisely because it's not.
- Amy Schumer can tell a story. Knowing how to craft a short narrative and make it pay off with a laugh has, after all, helped make her one of the hottest comedians on TV and the concert circuit these days.
- The "it" in question is Hannah's OCD, which apparently was a serious problem when she was in high school.
- Hannah goes with Jessa to visit her father in upstate New York, and by the end Jessa's character was beautifully rounded out -- her petulance has an origin now
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- Cocaine and awkward sex give way to a friendship meltdown -- and we get to see Booth Jonathan's freaky multimedia chamber
- Ta-Nehisi Coates says men could learn a lot about how women think by watching Lena Dunham's show.
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- The wave of winter shows that arrives this week bears prime examples of this TV truth. From the traditional, big-budget, Brit-cum-PBS halls of "Downton Abbey," to the edgy, Baltimore-made remake of "House of Cards," here are 10 midseason productions worth paying attention to.
- Meghan Daum says young women who favored the president shouldn't be reduced to a stereotype
- Doyle McManus sorts through the good, bad and ugly of swing-state campaign commercials
- If this is the world Lena Dunham knows, why should she skew it for sake of diversity?
- Lena Dunham just might have created a landmark sitcom
