Got this off another list. Has anyone seen this? It was discovered at E! On-line... >Top 100 Too Male, Says Streep > >by Bridget Byrne >June 22, 1998, 2:50 p.m. PT > >Tinseltown has long been pegged as a testosterone-crazed burg. The continued >complaint that Hollywood shortchanges women was rekindled this weekend by Meryl >Streep, who sounded off about the lack of strong female representation in the >American Film Institute's list of 100 best films. > >Appearing at the Women in Film Crystal Awards luncheon Friday, Streep groused >that she had not been asked to vote for the much ballyhooed AFI list. She asked >those in attendance--including may top female execs and producers--if they >received a ballot. Only a few indicated they had. > >The Oscar winner then suggested that most of the AFI voters were men and that >only a handful of the top films showcased strong female roles--and that one of >those, Snow White, was a cartoon. > >According to a source at the luncheon, the response to Streep's remarks was >mixed. "There was a lot of applause from certain quarters and a cry of, 'Go get >'em Meryl,' from the back of the room, but there was also a sense of discomfort. >And Jack Nicholson was groaning." > >Streep, who has been outspoken before on such Industry topics as female-star >salaries, admitted that maybe she was just "whining"--something Nicholson (at >the luncheon to honor his Heartburn costar) hates but "somebody has to." > >Streep is not, of course, the only one whining about the AFI list, which has >generated the publicity the institute hoped for, but not without controversy. >When it comes to such lists, everyone has an opinion, and the newspapers and >airwaves have been cluttered with response and comment from everyone from local >deejays to Sam Donaldson (making a vigorous case on ABC's This Week that his >favorite movie Quo Vadis should have been included). > >The Los Angeles Times conducted its own poll via fax and email. Topping the >newspaper's list of dissed films: Braveheart, followed by Titanic. (AFI only >included movies released through 1996.) The readers also were upset by the >omission of Field of Dreams and Mel Brooks' gassy western spoof Blazing Saddles. > > >Many critics have also noted the absence of Greta Garbo films and Fred and >Ginger classics--movies perhaps hurt by an antifemale bias. One attendee at the >Crystal Awards lunch noted: "It was stunning to hear Streep point out that the >few strong female figures represented on the list were Snow White, Julie Andrews >in The Sound of Music and Bette Davis in All About Eve. What does that tell us >about Industry attitudes when the women are a cartoon, a virgin and a bitch." > >While AFI has refused to divulge exactly how many women were among the voters, >CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg says, "They were well represented." Scott Oster, AFI >director of communications, insisted a ballot had been sent to Streep via >Creative Artists Agency and: "We regret it if it did not reach her." > > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite