Debra Winger, the actress best known for her performances in Terms of Endearment and Urban Cowbow, can add another profession to her resume– writer. Winger has just released her first book entitled Undiscovered. Winger shares her thoughts on acting, explaining “I love the work, and don’t much care for the business.” Winger also discusses the double standards faced by men and women in Hollywood:

Age is an issue in society as well as in the movies. If a man has an affair with a woman 20 years his junior, then most people see him as virile. But if a woman has an affair with someone 20 years her junior, most people look askance. Movies are a reflection of our society. I’ve come to a point where I’m interested in the freedom that comes when your sexuality and yourself are one. When you are younger, you tend to be posturing in your sexuality. And when you’re older, you tend to be at one with your sexuality.

Now Winger is not only a writer and actress, but an activist who has worked with the ACLU and is part of the ACLU’s Rights Camera Action campaign. The website explains

Rights / Camera / Action uses the arts and popular culture as a platform for civil liberties discussions with the artists and other professionals who create entertainment, as well as with the audiences and students who are its consumers.Through film screenings, panels, dialogue with artists, industry leaders, and civil liberties experts; and through spoken, sung, and written word, Rights / Camera / Action encourages conversations that tap into core American values that cut across the lines of political ideology, race, ethnicity, age and gender.

The ACLU has already coordinated with great films, including some of Participant’s very own movies:

“The Visitor” “Standard Operating Procedure” “Taxi to the Dark Side” “At the Death House Door” “Rendition” “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib” “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” “Secrecy” “Shut Up and Sing” “This Film is Not Yet Rated” “The US vs. John Lennon” and “The Road to Guantánamo” For the last three years, the ACLU has joined PEN American Center at their World Voices Festival to present evenings of readings highlighting issues including ideological exclusion, torture, and government surveillance with distinguished participants including Salman Rushdie, Liev Schreiber, Debra Winger, Gloria Reuben, Judy Blume and Dennis Lehane.

So takepart and check out the Rights Camera Action Campaign!

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