Hollywood pretends to accept a diverse group of women, but the roles for plus-sized women and women of color just aren’t there.

Hollywood pretends to accept a diverse group of women, but the roles for plus-sized women and women of color just aren’t there.
As filmmaker Alexandra Dean deftly examines in her documentary “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,” the combination of looks and intelligence can be devastating.
An iconic flapper and sex symbol, Clara Bow’s popularity waned with the advent of “talkies,” and she retired from film in 1933. Her legacy lives on, however, as Hollywood’s very first “It Girl.”
Maybe if the U.N. blueprint for peace and prosperity by 2030 were sexier, people around the world would take notice and support it. So goes the thinking behind #GlobalGoals, an infotainment campaign…
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