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Weekly Roundup: Rosie’s New ‘View’ & Film Schools’ Gender Bias

 

Can Rosie O’Donnell  save The View?

Gina Sanders becomes Conde Nast’s first President of Global Development.

Connie Chung advises women to “sing your praises the way men do!” (Video)

Which screenwriting contests are really worth entering?

This Is Our Youth star Tavi Gevinson on the perks and pitfalls of adulthood.

Gender bias—it starts in film school.

— KELLY GLOVER

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