Where Are Hollywood's Women Film Directors? Ask Guerrilla Girls

Broadcast television's "America's Sweetheart" and recently divorced actress Jennifer Aniston, who was separated from her long-running romantic comedy on NBC, Friends in 2004 has rebounded nicely and is the central character in director Nicole Holofcener's latest film Friends With Money a www.sonypictures.com/classics/  a tale of several intertwined relationships.

During the Academy Awards the www.Guerrillagirls.com erected the largest billboard in Hollywood with the legend "Unchain  the Women Directors" fifty-feet-across it. Honest, I am not making this up, if I was that creative I would be writing scripts myself instead of writing for America. The Guerrilla Girls are creatively challenging Hollywood to make more films with women directors.

If you're going to have friends and listen to their relationship psychodramas, they might as well have money to pickup the check at lunch is one view of  Nicole Holofcener's latest relationship narrative. Her previous Lovely & Amazing film from 2002 starred Catherine Keener as the oldest of three sisters; an artist who makes miniture chairs out of twigs but discovers that she cannot sell them. Her husband is beating her  with a stick, metaphoricaly speaking, to get a real gig.

Ms. Holofcener's first feature in 1996 was also a www.lionsgatefilms.com  release, Walking and Talking (both DVD's are available at www.deepdiscountdvd.com ) starring the bubbly Ann Heche and Catharine Keener as childhood friends grown-up, become bright-light big-city women coping with their ever ebbing-and-flowing love-lives. Will their friendship last? It's all about the relationships.

Which brings us up-to-date with our Friends With Money starring Catherine Keener (my script, tentantively titled The Catherine Keener Filmic Konspiracy is in the hands of my agent, J. Burns.) Jennifer Aniston is the central character Olivia who quit her teaching job at a prestigious Westside Los Angeles private school to become a... housecleaner.