Anybody notice a trend in the types of roles that numerous tv shows reserve for women? Sure! you say. Hookers, nuns or teachers, right? Why no! Worse! (um, kidding) The dying art of fashion magazine editors! Seems it's the career choice di rigour of the tubes, and particularly popular in the latest crop of lady sitcoms that look vaguely reminiscent of Devil Wears Prada/Sex and the City. Today, Gawker lists the prime suspects:
1. Lucy Liu is Mia in Cashmere Mafia.
2. Lea Duffy played a cartoonist in Caroline in the City.
3. In a darker role, Courtney Cox plays the editor of a celebrity tabloid, in FX's Dirt.
4. Just Shoot Me: Laura San Giacomo was a journalist at her father's glamor magazine.
5. Ugly Betty features a naive Hispanic secretary trying to make her way at -- of course -- a fashion magazine.
6. And as a journalist at a San Francisco Magazine, a familiar face: Brooke Shields. The actress must be tired of playing the same role. Next time round, in a decade or so, maybe the networks will give make her a web producer. [Gawker]
Web producer! That's me! (I think?) I want my own show! Except it wouldn't be much fun. Not so much Manhattan, Milano Blahniks and dirty martinis...more Silverlake, American Apparel, Photoshop and 14 cups of coffee.
