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Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter, 73, poses with mini-me daughter Jessica, 34... 50 years after her superhero show debuted
Lynda Carter joined her lookalike daughter Jessica Altman on Monday evening in New York City. The brunette beauties were on the red carpet for the 2025 Paley Honors at The Ziegfeld Ballroom. Lynda, who played Wonder Woman on TV for years, was stunning in a black corseted gown and an ivory satin coat. The Arizona native had her hair down around her shoulders as she had on her signature red pout that matched her red gloves, shoes and necklace. The screen icon's mini-me daughter Jessica was also in a black dress which showed off her slender figure. Lynda was honored by The Paley Center for Media at the gala. It comes just before the 50th anniversary of the Wonder Woman television series, which ran from 1975 to 1979. She also returned to the franchise in 2020's Wonder Woman 1984 with Gal Gadot as Diana. 'Lynda Carter's iconic portrayal remains a timeless symbol of strength, courage, and empowerment,' said Maureen J. Reidy, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, in a statement shared by Variety. Her daughter is also successful. Jessica has been on tour with Tyler Hilton (One Tree Hill) and recently wrapped two shows with BBMAK. On April 25, she released her first single of the year, Mirror Mirror, via Symphonic—following the success of her debut album, Aftermath, released last June. 'The track is a raw, introspective journey into self-image and the illusions we often create to shield ourselves from truth,' her press release said. Jessica has five shows in July. Her hair was worn full and down around her shoulders as she had on her signature red pout that matched her red gloves, shoes and necklace Last year Lynda and Jessica were seen at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show during Paris Fashion Week. The actress looked as flawless as ever. Stepping out to the event she wore an eye-catching, pleated cape-like jacket with dramatic fluted sleeves. Featuring multi-colored fringing, she teamed the statement piece with a black high-neck jumper and fitted trousers. Lynda pulled her hair back into a chic updo to show off her youthful complexion and completed her outfit with classic stilettos. Jessica looked equally as stylish in a semi-sheer lace blouse with a pair of high-waisted trousers. The singer added a red satin waistband and boosted her height with some black stilettos. In November, Lynda appeared on Channel Seven 's The Morning Show in Australia to discuss her latest single and her past television career. Joining via Zoom from Los Angeles she chatted with hosts Kylie Gillies and Matt Doran, she said: 'I think [Wonder Woman] was relatable. I think superheroes in many ways are not relatable,' she said of her superhero role. 'But because she didn't wear a mask, you know, she was right there. It was about her kindness or goodness... It wasn't really about the super power.' She first appeared on screens as Wonder Woman almost five decades ago. Lynda was crowned Miss USA in 1972 but had just $25 in the bank when she landed the part of Wonder Woman in 1975. She continued in the TV role until 1979. The actress also appeared in the 2020 Wonder Woman with Gal Gadot in the title role. Aside from acting Lynda has also released five studio albums, recording her most recent song, Human and Divine, in 2021 in honor of her late husband. Her daughter Jessica has been busy releasing new music and has described her album as contemporary pop as well as folk pop. Many of the new tunes touch on the heartbreaking loss of her businessman father Robert A Altman who died unexpectedly in 2021 from myelofibrosis, a type of bone marrow cancer. Lynda married attorney Robert in 1984, they share Jessica and a son named James, 39. In 2020 Lynda and Jessica talked to Access Daily's Mario Lopez and Kit Hoover, where they opened up about their close bond, with Jessica calling her mom 'even more wonderful' than her superhero alter-ego. 'She embodies the character every single day,' lawyer/singer Jessica told Access. Lynda married attorney Robert A Altman in 1984, they share Jessica and a son named James, 39. Robert who died unexpectedly in 2021 from bone marrow cancer; the family pictured together in 2018 in New York City 'I think every person believes and sees the character as a strong woman figure in their lives. 'Their moms, their girlfriends, their grandmothers, their aunts, their sisters,' she continued about the comic character. Lavishing her mom in praise, Jessica went on: 'I just feel really lucky that my mom is even more wonderful than the character. 'She taught me how to be strong, she taught me how to be brave and she taught me that I could do whatever it is that I want to do, and that I didn't have to fit anyone else's ideal,' she went on. 'I just had to be myself.'
The Guardian
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Dara Birnbaum obituary
Dara Birnbaum's reinvention of video art was born of frustration. In 1977 the American artist was reading Screen magazine, then full of academic essays deconstructing the language of cinema. While she was keen on applying psychoanalysis to understand moving image, and felt a strong kinship with the burgeoning feminist discourse, Birnbaum, who has died aged 78, became exasperated by the lack of interest in the predominant mass medium of the age. 'I'm reading these things that I really care about, but no one is talking about television. At the time they weren't. And I just made that jump,' she recalled. Her first solo exhibition, she decided, had 'to be something about television and television language'. Television would become her enduring material, using pirated and appropriated footage in work that addressed mass culture, gender, body language and semiotics. Her work was never dry, the humour and kitsch aesthetics of her most famous video, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79), typical in its seduction of the viewer. The first 20 seconds of the little under six-minute video features found footage of an explosion culled from the titular TV series, repeated several times so the screen remains just a ball of fire, until the character Diana Prince, played by Lynda Carter, emerges, again edited into short repeated cuts, to perform her transformative spin from secretarial into superhero role. 'The show made me very angry,' Birnbaum recalled. 'To turn around two and a half times and, with the special effect, to become a super-power woman … [this] role is as much entrapment as, you know, being a secretary.' The second half of the work is preoccupied with the remixed version of the Wonder Woman theme tune, played out in full over a blue screen and the lyrics rolling past. Before the widespread advent of VCR, Birnbaum was forced to rely on friends smuggling out raw footage from local television stations. 'It was like dealing drugs, you know, to take a tape out. It was illegal.' In 1979 she made Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry, from a recording of the television gameshow Hollywood Squares, the introductory gurning smiles and folksy gestures of the celebrity contestants isolated and collaged; followed by the three-minute video Kojak/Wang (1980), using stolen clips from the television police procedural and an advert for Wang computers, intercutting them to equate criminal violence with corporate aggression. Born in Queens, New York City, Dara was the daughter of Mary, a pathologist, and Philip Birnbaum, the architect behind many high-rise Manhattan residential blocks, including Trump Plaza. Her parents were socially conservative with fixed views on the appropriate career path for girls, but took her on trips to MoMA and introduced her to Alfred Hitchcock films from an early age. She excelled at Forest Hills high school, skipping two grades and leaving aged 16. She enrolled in pre-med courses at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but lasted just three weeks before swapping to architecture, against her parents' wishes, the only woman on the course. 'It was a tough road,' she recalled, but graduated in 1969. After first working with the practice Emery Roth & Sons, including rendering designs for the World Trade Center, Birnbaum moved to San Francisco to join the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin's firm. There she took courses at San Francisco Art Institute, hoping it would help in her architecture work, but when the college offered her a full-time scholarship in drawing and painting, she left her job to study full time, graduating with her second degree in 1973. She travelled to Florence with the intention of further study at the Academy of Art, but left after it proved too academic for her taste. Instead, one night walking to the opera along Via Ricasoli, she passed an art gallery advertising shows for Vito Acconci and Meret Oppenheim. Centro Diffusione became her alternative school, meeting artists including Charlemagne Palestine, Joan Jonas and the artist and musician Dickie Landry, the latter encouraging her to return to New York. Her earliest work, made in the melee of the downtown New York scene of happenings and performance art, featured the artist herself. In Mirroring (1975), made after reading the philosopher Jacques Lacan's ideas of the mirror stage of child development, a close cropped portrait of Birnbaum is revealed to be a reflection as she moved across the camera frame; in the silent, black-and-white Control (also 1975), Birnbaum films herself placing her hands on a blank projector screen and interrupting the projector light with her body. Birnbaum had her first exhibition in 1977 at Artists Space, New York. It was also her first foray into using television as a calling card, the exhibition featuring pairs of printed still images extracted from primetime crime dramas, each over-the-shoulder shot depicting characters in dialogue with each other. Each image was coupled with texts containing imagined conversation. The work was a comment on perception and political ideology, the title Lesson Plans (To Keep the Revolution Alive) a reference to an apparent Maoist edict against such techniques in order to promote realism in film-making. Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman followed, Birnbaum showing the work in film festivals, on public access cable TV and even, on her own initiative, in the window of a SoHo hairdresser's. In 1982 she was invited to take part in Documenta VII, the German quinquennial exhibition in Kassel regarded as one of the most prestigious stages for an artist. She exhibited PM Magazine/Acid Rock, a frenetic and psychedelic multichannel work layering a droning rock soundtrack with remixed footage from a nightly news show and, again, an advert for Wang computers. In 1983 she had amassed enough of a reputation to merit her first retrospective, at the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, followed by a retrospective screening of her work in 1984 at the ICA in London. She showed again at two subsequent editions of Documenta, in 1987 and 1992. While she turned down requests to make music videos, in 1987 she produced a 30-second work for MTV in which she took a clip from the Koko the Clown cartoon. The character has a mechanical arm with which anything it draws is brought to life; in the original cartoon, the clown draws a woman who blows him a kiss. In Birnbaum's redrawing, the woman instead exhales the MTV logo – which she shoots into the clown's crotch. 'I hated the use of women – the representation of them on MTV,' Birnbaum explained. This was her revenge. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s her installations grew in size and ambition, as museum exhibitions became more frequent, but she remained politically engaged throughout. The 1992 work Transmission Tower: Sentinel, made in the aftermath of the first Gulf war, featured a steel structure holding several monitors, displaying variously a recording of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg reading his anti-war poem Hum Bom!, to George HW Bush's presidential inauguration speech. Arabesque (2011), shown at South London Gallery, was a two-screen work featuring two compositions – one composed by Robert Schumann for his wife Clara; the other composed by Clara Schumann for her husband Robert – which returned to Birnbaum's themes of gender and representation. She remained influential and relevant, with her work included in the New York Times's 2019 list of the '25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age'. In a 2022 interview with Frieze magazine, Birnbaum said: 'We're in an era where the image is no longer grounded in a certain way. Either with or without our permission, it slips and slides … into other means or methods … It's a profound shift that begs the question: can independent voices still exist with purpose today?' She is survived by her brother, Robert. Dara Birnbaum, artist, born 29 October 1946; died 2 May 2025
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'I'm excited': Hollywood star rallies around new national landmark with support from both parties
FIRST ON FOX: It's not easy in today's political climate to get Democrats and Republicans into a friendly, collaborative space together. But that's exactly what happened this week when Lynda Carter, star of the 1970s ABC hit "Wonder Woman," joined a bipartisan reception on Capitol Hill aimed at getting the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum built. "It's often said that certain kinds of men built America. And that is not exactly the truth, because we were there," Carter told Fox News Digital in an interview during the event. "Most people don't know about our stories, about the women of America that helped to build our great nation. Those are the stories that I'm excited to have you hear about." Despite a bustling day of events Monday, a day before President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, more than two dozen lawmakers found time to stop by a modest room on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol, where Carter was engaging with others in a bid to get the museum built. Gop Rebels Head To White House For Meeting To Avoid Government Shutdown Funding for the women's museum was appropriated in 2020 and signed into law during Trump's first term. Read On The Fox News App Now, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., is leading a bill to actually give the museum a spot along the National Mall so it can finally be built. "We're very fortunate to be here with a bipartisan effort. And we have 80 co-sponsors of our legislation, both Democrats and Republicans," Malliotakis told Fox News Digital. "It's very important, so we can share the stories of the women who have come before us," she added before listing famous females like Rosie the Riveter, a group of Black nurses who worked with tuberculosis patients in the 1900s, known as the Black Angels, and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. And their effort is getting recognized by the very top levels of Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., briefly stopped by the event and spoke with attendees, at one point appearing cheerful during a conversation with Carter. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was also at the event, as were both male and female members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. "This is the second and final step of the process," Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who is co-leading the effort, told Fox News Digital. "Obviously, it's an important one, because this is the site selection. The hard part was getting it authorized, that's already done." Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who has championed women's rights for decades, said she had spoken with Johnson during the event and "it seemed like he was gonna look for the votes." "I know how effective he is," Maloney praised. "We're gonna get it done this time." Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., another Democrat leading the effort in Congress right now, affirmed: "We are going to get it done." Vance Takes Victory In Border Visit As Illegal Immigrant Numbers Plummet Dingell did not hesitate when asked whether she was confident about whether the project could be completed despite the current political environment. "It has to," she said. It was an evening of bipartisanship for Carter as well, a noted Democrat who campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign. She credited both Republicans and Democrats, however, for coming together on the issue of the museum. The event culminated with the co-chairs of the bipartisan Women's caucus – Malliotakis, along with Reps. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio, and Janelle Bynum, D-Ore. – presenting Carter with a frame memorializing her contributions to women in the Congressional article source: 'I'm excited': Hollywood star rallies around new national landmark with support from both parties
Fox News
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'I'm excited': Hollywood star rallies around new national landmark with support from both parties
FIRST ON FOX: It's not easy in today's political climate to get Democrats and Republicans into a friendly, collaborative space together. But that's exactly what happened this week when Lynda Carter, star of the 1970s ABC hit "Wonder Woman," joined a bipartisan reception on Capitol Hill aimed at getting the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum built. "It's often said that certain kinds of men built America. And that is not exactly the truth, because we were there," Carter told Fox News Digital in an interview during the event. "Most people don't know about our stories, about the women of America that helped to build our great nation. Those are the stories that I'm excited to have you hear about." Despite a bustling day of events Monday, a day before President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, more than two dozen lawmakers found time to stop by a modest room on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol, where Carter was engaging with others in a bid to get the museum built. Funding for the women's museum was appropriated in 2020 and signed into law during Trump's first term. Now, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., is leading a bill to actually give the museum a spot along the National Mall so it can finally be built. "We're very fortunate to be here with a bipartisan effort. And we have 80 co-sponsors of our legislation, both Democrats and Republicans," Malliotakis told Fox News Digital. "It's very important, so we can share the stories of the women who have come before us," she added before listing famous females like Rosie the Riveter, a group of Black nurses who worked with tuberculosis patients in the 1900s, known as the Black Angels, and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. And their effort is getting recognized by the very top levels of Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., briefly stopped by the event and spoke with attendees, at one point appearing cheerful during a conversation with Carter. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was also at the event, as were both male and female members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. "This is the second and final step of the process," Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who is co-leading the effort, told Fox News Digital. "Obviously, it's an important one, because this is the site selection. The hard part was getting it authorized, that's already done." Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who has championed women's rights for decades, said she had spoken with Johnson during the event and "it seemed like he was gonna look for the votes." "I know how effective he is," Maloney praised. "We're gonna get it done this time." Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., another Democrat leading the effort in Congress right now, affirmed: "We are going to get it done." Dingell did not hesitate when asked whether she was confident about whether the project could be completed despite the current political environment. "It has to," she said. It was an evening of bipartisanship for Carter as well, a noted Democrat who campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign. She credited both Republicans and Democrats, however, for coming together on the issue of the museum. The event culminated with the co-chairs of the bipartisan Women's caucus – Malliotakis, along with Reps. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio, and Janelle Bynum, D-Ore. – presenting Carter with a frame memorializing her contributions to women in the Congressional Record.
Fox News
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'I'm excited': Liberal Hollywood star rallies around new national landmark with support from both parties
FIRST ON FOX: It's not easy in today's political climate to get Democrats and Republicans into a friendly, collaborative space together. But that's exactly what happened this week when Lynda Carter, star of the 1970s ABC hit "Wonder Woman," joined a bipartisan reception on Capitol Hill aimed at getting the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum built. "It's often said that certain kinds of men built America. And that is not exactly the truth, because we were there," Carter told Fox News Digital in an interview during the event. "Most people don't know about our stories, about the women of America that helped to build our great nation. Those are the stories that I'm excited to have you hear about." Despite a bustling day of events Monday, a day before President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, more than two dozen lawmakers found time to stop by a modest room on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol, where Carter was engaging with others in a bid to get the museum built. Funding for the women's museum was appropriated in 2020 and signed into law during Trump's first term. Now, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., is leading a bill to actually give the museum a spot along the National Mall so it can finally be built. "We're very fortunate to be here with a bipartisan effort. And we have 80 co-sponsors of our legislation, both Democrats and Republicans," Malliotakis told Fox News Digital. "It's very important, so we can share the stories of the women who have come before us," she added before listing famous females like Rosie the Riveter, a group of Black nurses who worked with tuberculosis patients in the 1900s, known as the Black Angels, and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. And their effort is getting recognized by the very top levels of Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., briefly stopped by the event and spoke with attendees, at one point appearing cheerful during a conversation with Carter. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was also at the event, as were both male and female members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. "This is the second and final step of the process," Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who is co-leading the effort, told Fox News Digital. "Obviously, it's an important one, because this is the site selection. The hard part was getting it authorized, that's already done." Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who has championed women's rights for decades, said she had spoken with Johnson during the event and "it seemed like he was gonna look for the votes." "I know how effective he is," Maloney praised. "We're gonna get it done this time." Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., another Democrat leading the effort in Congress right now, affirmed: "We are going to get it done." Dingell did not hesitate when asked whether she was confident about whether the project could be completed despite the current political environment. "It has to," she said. It was an evening of bipartisanship for Carter as well, a noted Democrat who campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign. She credited both Republicans and Democrats, however, for coming together on the issue of the museum. The event culminated with the co-chairs of the bipartisan Women's caucus – Malliotakis, along with Reps. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio, and Janelle Bynum, D-Ore. – presenting Carter with a frame memorializing her contributions to women in the Congressional Record.
