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Describing his newest venture on Thursday night, rap icon Pharrell Williams evoked another icon: 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette.

Antoinette was “a woman who had basically the world at her fingertips,” he said.

Until, of course, the guillotine fell, Speakeasy noted.

“But she had a hell of a lot of macaroons!” he said.

For Williams, Marie and her macaroons embody the exclusive and indulgent message he hopes to communicate with Qream, his new vodka-infused specialty liqueur.

For women, breaking into comedy is a tough enough nut to crack without the chauvinistic "women aren't funny" comments. Not only is it not true, but with a male-dominated writer's field in Hollywood (73 percent of the WGA's film writers are men) it's only too clear that if women aren't funny onscreen it's probably because the only funny thing they had to do in the script was fall down and go boom boom.

The widely accepted paradigm in movies (not to mention TV) is having an out-of-shape or mildly attractive but funny husband and his hot, not-as-funny wife. And it's getting stale, baby. In order for a woman to go against that grain takes massive ovaries, the ability to generate her own material, and absolutely no fear of looking stupid.

Here are our picks for the 20 funniest women working in movies today.

20. Eva Mendes

This beautiful Latina may have entered public...

The term art film probably should have been retired about two decades ago — and when you think about, it kind of was. On the rare occasions that something now gets tagged as an “art film,” it’s generally meant in a vaguely dismissive and even pejorative way. It means not art but arty: high-minded and self-conscious, precious and austere. It means art less as pleasure than as medicine (which, in my book, tends to mean third-rate art, like the pseudo-Euro hitman-with-angst dud The American). Yet I’m tempted, out of a fresh wave of nostalgia, to haul out the old...

Coming to DVD this September 22 "Evilution," will shock the system and scar the psyche all in your own home. From writer Brian Patrick O'Toole (Cemetary Gates) and director Chris Conlee (Butterfly Effect 2, Abominable) "Evilution," will be released through BrinkDVD. Fans are sure to get a kick out of the unique premise of an alien microscopic life form that can "resurrect the dead." Have a look at a action packed trailer inside.

A partial synopsis for "Evilution," here...

A microscopic alien life form has been discovered with the ability to possess the living and resurrect the dead. The United States Army tried to communicate with it and failed. So, instead, the military tried to create a genetically altered version of the alien in order to resurrect dead soldiers on the battlefield. The alien fought back; turning soldier against soldier.

Release Date: September 22, 2009.

Director: Chris Conlee.

Writer: Brian Patrick O'Toole.

Cast: Marie Antoinette,...