HBO Max has curated a list of films, TV shows and documentaries that reflect empowering and challenging female characters, overlooked and underrated performances, those who pushed queer representation forward, fiercely funny, refreshingly original stories, and women telling their own stories, on their terms. To reveal the answer, viewers can simply click or tap the tile. The HBO Max Women’s History Month Trivia tray allows fans to discover entertainment milestones that all involve women.

HBO Max is stacked with movies and shows that show complex female leads, and along with their spotlight page offerings, HBO is offering a first ever in-app trivia experience to celebrate the event. And for the entire month of March, the streaming service HBO Max is celebrating Women’s History Month with programming devoted entirely to stories about women. Granted, celebrity misbehavior and excess remain central to our TMZ-informed times, but Fisher’s approach - looking back with humor - nevertheless feels like a portal into a galaxy not all that long ago, but pretty far away.America has officially celebrated Women’s History month since the 1980s when a feminist surge for equal job opportunities and education blossomed out of local celebrations and the International Women’s Day holiday, as well as Women’s History Week. Occasionally, Fisher’s one-liners (the title included) overreach into silliness, but as directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato - whose examinations of notorious women include “Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal,” “Monica in Black and White” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” - “Wishful Drinking” plays like a knowing valentine to the boozy, blowsy, “Mad Men”-era days of Hollywood.

Perhaps foremost, Fisher manages to continue her jaundiced, fun-house trip through her frazzled (though in many ways, privileged) existence without descending into self-pity - ruefully describing celebrity as “obscurity biding its time.” The actress-author also playfully banters with the audience, insisting she’s “a good person, much like Sarah Palin.” Based on the crowd drawn to her show (taped in New Jersey), that line elicits the expected enthusiastic response. An ability to laugh at themselves is also a prerequisite for all those who have passed through Fisher’s orbit, including her parents (her father passed away after the special was taped) ex-husbands Paul Simon and CAA’s Bryan Lourd and producer George Lucas, whom she thanks (sardonically, naturally) for her stalkers and putting her face on a Pez Dispenser.įisher truly lights up, though, during the passages where she discusses her parents, including a riotous sequence in which she attempts to connect the dots on not only their sundry marriages but those of their poly-matrimonial spouses as well.

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