Diane Keaton is venturing into series television with a half-hour comedy at HBO.
Written by Marti Noxon, the untitled project stars the Oscar winner as a feminist icon who attempts to reignite the movement by starting a sexually explicit magazine for women.
The comedy hails from Grady Twins Prods., a production company recently launched by Noxon and Dawn Parouse. Noxon, Parouse and Keaton are executive producing.
"We've came a long way since the Kinsey report; women are more sexual now," said Noxon, referring to Alfred Kinsey's controversial 1953 report "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female."
Added Parouse: "There seems to be a new evolution of what women are sexually. Women are acting more like men sexually."
Noxon had carried the germ of the idea for a show that touches upon feminism as long as she can remember.
She was 12 when her mother came out as a radical feminist and a lesbian...
Written by Marti Noxon, the untitled project stars the Oscar winner as a feminist icon who attempts to reignite the movement by starting a sexually explicit magazine for women.
The comedy hails from Grady Twins Prods., a production company recently launched by Noxon and Dawn Parouse. Noxon, Parouse and Keaton are executive producing.
"We've came a long way since the Kinsey report; women are more sexual now," said Noxon, referring to Alfred Kinsey's controversial 1953 report "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female."
Added Parouse: "There seems to be a new evolution of what women are sexually. Women are acting more like men sexually."
Noxon had carried the germ of the idea for a show that touches upon feminism as long as she can remember.
She was 12 when her mother came out as a radical feminist and a lesbian...
- 7/29/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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