Gender in Movies

In the Aug. 3 article, “Meryl Streep Attacks Hollywood Gender Gap at SAG Conference,” the actress lashed out at the film industry for downplaying the importance of women on the screen and blamed Hollywood for the big-budget male films. Also, the story reported that the combined income of men doubled that of women.

I can give Streep a good reason for all this:

There isn’t one female star with the drawing power of Hoffman, Gibson, Nicholson, Cruise, Willis, Schwarzenegger, Redford, Newman, Allen, Costner, De Niro, Stallone, etc., etc., etc.

BILL STEIN

Cambria