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Women's rights activist Lilly Ledbetter has died, according to a family representative. Ledbetter, best known for advocating for equal pay for women, died as a result of respiratory failure on Saturday night. But Democrats in Congress — urged on by a dissenting opinion from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — fought to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act became the first bill Barack Obama signed into law as president in 2009. A film about her life, called "Lilly" and starring Patricia Clarkson as Ledbetter, also premiered recently at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Persons: Lilly Ledbetter, Ledbetter, , ” Ledbetter, , Ruth Bader Ginsburg —, Lilly, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Michelle, Patricia Clarkson Organizations: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Forbes, Supreme, Goodyear, Hamptons, Film Locations: Alabama, Gadsden , Alabama
“She Said” nevertheless joins a long tradition of movies about dogged reporters exposing injustice, and in this case helping spawn a sweeping movement. The film is adapted from the book by New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, which might explain why the work of Ronan Farrow is mentioned but conspicuously shortchanged. Setting that aside, the heart of “She Said,” which begins with Twohey (Carey Mulligan) reporting on Donald Trump, centers on her collaboration with Kantor (Zoe Kazan) to lay bare the predatory behavior of Harvey Weinstein. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play New York Times reporters in the fact-based movie "She Said." (The film’s producers include Brad Pitt, who has spoken of confronting Weinstein back when he was dating Gwyneth Paltrow.)
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