Kicking Ass (and Making Workout Videos)
Check out Forty years on, stuntwoman Sandy Gimpel still loves her occupational hazard in Friday's Christian Science Monitor for some interesting tidbits about one stuntwoman's film career - and her side businesses. We should all keep in mind that for every ass-kicking movie heroine we love, there's probably also a real-life heroine handling the falling and fighting.
These women get even more props than their male counterparts, in my opinion. As pointed out in the documentary Double Dare, which Grace reviewed back in September, women's costumes in films are often very revealing. So unlike men, who are often dressed in shirts with sleeves and pants with legs, women don't have as many places to put protective padding when they do their stunts. Then they don't always get as much respect for the work they do.
So here's to Ms. Gimpel and her fellow professionals! And I highly recommend Double Dare if you haven't yet seen it.
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