On High Heels and Hollywood’s Real Heels – Brandy McDonnell comments

May 24, 2015June 8, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments aclu, agnes varda, andrea arnold, cannes film festival, emily blunt, high heels, maggie gyllenhaal, monica bellucci, red carpet, the week in women

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While the Cannes Film Festival created a controversy over its rule that women must wear high heels to walk the red carpet to some of the festival’s screenings, back in Hollywood, it became clear that some industry honchos are real low down heels of the sexist and ageist variety. And actresses are getting very vocal in their protests. Read more>>

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.