Kathryn Bigelow First and Only Acting Job As a Militant Lesbian journalist

The Oscar Winner for "The Hurt Locker" portrayed "Kathy Larson", A journalist, In one of the Worst Films Ever - "Born in Flames" (1983).
Her only other media Appearance was in 1987 when she Appeared in the video for Martini Ranch's "Reach". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusApBvbxuM
the video was directed by no other than James Cameroon.
In the martini ranch video she plays a sexy cowboy who does clint eastwood imitations.


Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.
The plot concerns two feminist groups in New York City, each voicing their concerns to the public by pirate radio. One group, led by an outspoken white lesbian, Isabel (Adele Bertei), operates "Radio Ragazza". The other group, led by a soft-spoken African-American, Honey (Honey), operates "Phoenix Radio". The local community is stimulated into action after a world-traveling political activist, Adelaide Norris (Jean Satterfield), is arrested upon arriving at a New York City airport, and suspiciously dies while in police custody. Also, there is a Women's Army led by Hilary Hurst (Hilary Hurst) and advised by Zella (Flo Kennedy) that initially both Honey and Isabel refuse to join. This group, along with Norris and the radio stations, are under investigation by a callous FBI agent (Ron Vawter). Their progress is tracked by three interns (Becky Johnston, Pat Murphy, Kathryn Bigelow) for a socialist newspaper run by screenwriter Ed Bowes, who go so far they get fired.

The story involves several different women coming from different perspectives and attempts to show several examples of how sexism plays out, and how it can be dealt with through direct action. A famous scene is one during which two men are attacking a woman on the street and dozens of women on bicycles with whistles come to chase the men away and comfort the woman. The women in the movie have different ideas about what can and should be done, but all know that it is up to them, because the government will not take care of it. The movie shows women organizing in meetings, doing radio shows, creating art, wheatpasting, putting a condom on a penis, wrapping raw chicken at a processing plant, etc. The film portrays a world rife with violence against women, high female unemployment, and government oppression. The women in the film start to get together to make a bigger impact, by means that some would call terrorism.

Ultimately, after both radio stations are suspiciously burned down, Honey and Isabel team up and broadcast "Phoenix and Regazza Radio" from stolen moving vans. They also join the Women's Army, which sends a group of terrorists to interrupt a broadcast of the President of the United States proposing that women be paid to do housework, followed by bombing the antenna on top of the World Trade Center to prevent additional such destructive messages from the mainstream.

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[svetlanda3]

"Worst Films Ever"? Really? You seem smart enough to understand the film's raison d'être, and yet, so completely stupid in your overall description of the film's imagery and Bigelow's "media career" as a "sexy cowboy" ...*but I think she's a cowgirl* ? I mean, how relevant are the 3 second shots of the chicken wrapping and condoms anyway? Somehow important enough to bypass the film's longstanding political relevance by deeming it a "Worst Film Ever".

[abstracted52]

Anybody can easily grab this mp3 file at soundnabber..com

[doctergonads]

ncfm

[vf2005]

Oooh! That was a bit too close for comfort, when one of two twin towers explode at the very end!!! I wonder how many films portray future real tragedies.

[TheBlondeRavenUtube]

Thanks for uploading. Wow. This is pretty rare. How did you get a hold of this?

[Luvs23]

i had no idea. she was that much of a pioneer when it really counted. i had no idea.