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Amy Pascal (born March 25, 1958) is an American film producer and business executive. She served as the Chairperson of the Motion Pictures Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Co-Chairperson of SPE, including Sony Pictures Television, from 2006 until 2015.
- Marmee
- Jo March
- Amy March
- Postmortem Assessments
- Imposters
- Asymmetry
- Indicative Meaning
In Alcott’s novel, Marmee is depicted as the ideal mother and the moral center of the March family – a dutiful and loving wife and mother dedicated to helping those in need. Gerwig describes her as follows. “Marmee (Laura Dern) has none of the pretensions of the other mothers, no artifice. She’s a hippie before they existed” (2019a). Producer Amy P...
Jo knows these suffocating feelings and restrictions. She expresses her frustration to her mother in a line taken directly from Alcott’s novel. “Women have minds and souls as well as hearts, ambition, and talent as well as beauty, and I’m sick of being told that love is all a woman is fit for” (Gerwig 2019). Gerwig tweaks the scene and adds a feeli...
Unlike Jo, Amy does not fight her bridal fate. In Alcott’s novel and most film and television adaptations, Amy plays the part of the spoiled girl. In other movies – Joan Bennett (1933), Elizabeth Taylor (1949), and Kirsten Dunst (1994) – Amy’s bratty antics serve as comic relief. Gerwig, however, adds depth and develops her character into a complic...
Let us assume, however, that all four March girls did go on to follow their passion and that each girl became a successful artist in her own right. Amy is a budding Mary Cassatt. Meg, the next Katherine Hepburn. Beth, the next Fanny Mendelssohn. And Jo joins the ranks of the Brontes and Jane Austin. Their lives would be objectively meaningful, for ...
As women experience more freedom and success, nagging self-doubt about the worth of their work and lives persists. Psychologists identify this as Imposter Syndrome, which is prevalent among (but not exclusive to) high-achieving women and minorities. When actor Jodie Foster was receiving one of her two Oscars, she said, “I thought it was a fluke, I ...
There is a puzzling asymmetry in Wolf’s theory. On the one hand, a person can be wrong about whether her life is objectively meaningful. Let us say, for example, that no matter what story she tells herself and others, Amy’s decision to devote her talents to become “an ornament to society” is not objectively worthwhile. On the other hand, a person c...
Wolf is not entirely off base in talking about meaning in terms of a psychological state, that is, feelings of satisfaction with one’s life (or career, marriage, etc.). When the average person on the street talks about meaning in life, she often speaks about feelings or psychological states. This same person would likely find it counter-intuitive t...
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Named one of the most powerful women in Hollywood in 2003, Amy Pascal has been president and vice president of several major production companies. As president of Columbia Pictures, she developed multiple major hits and has overseen major franchises like Spiderman and James Bond.
Dec 17, 2019 · Amy Pascal: ‘Little Women is a rite of passage book for all of us, even now’. Hollywood producer says studios are realising that making films starring women is good business. Pascal’s latest...
Jan 21, 2020 · After her Sony stint, Pascal took some heat when the cyber attack on the studio highlighted Hollywood’s gender pay gap by revealing the female stars of Columbia Pictures’ 2013 Oscar-nominated ...
Amy Pascal is a Jewish American businesswoman and co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. After graduating from UCLA in political science, Pascal found work as an assistant to producer Terry Garnett and became partners with him in Kestral Films.
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Jul 8, 2017 · Ms. Pascal, a 59-year-old woman in an industry rife with sexism and ageism, seems to have emerged stronger and happier, having reinvented herself as a producer through her company, Pascal...
