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Article: Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Mary F. Pols column.(Column)
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
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- July 8, 2007
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Byline: Mary F. Pols
Jul. 8--Like most big-time movie directors, Kasi Lemmons had a studio driver to take her to and from the set of her new film, "Talk to Me." So driver and passenger did some chatting, and one of the their conversations stuck in her mind. "He said he'd driven 130 directors," Lemmons recalled. "And I was the first woman director he'd driven."
The number crunching of a lone limo driver is hardly scientific. But when it comes to women directors, Hollywood is full of depressing statistics that support the chauffeur's observations. Of the 8,500 directors represented in the Directors Guild of America, about 13 percent are women. That figure ...