D-girl

n. a (junior) film industry executive who considers scripts for further development into funded movie productions. Subjects: English, Entertainment, Movies

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Citations: 1987 Anna McDonnell Los Angeles Times (Aug. 23) “D-Girls: The Women Behind the Scripts” p. 18: “D-girl” is the movie industry sobriquet for a woman who works in the murky world of “development.” Men dominate most of the power jobs in the industry-directing, producing, running studios-but women reign supreme in the Big D, development.…There are probably about 100 D-girls in Hollywood. Perhaps a fourth are really young men, but women are so prevalent in development that even the men often are referred to as “D-girls"—and even appear that way on many agency lists.…The term D-girl has evolved into common usage in recent years and represents at once nothing more than a joking reference to their lack of power in a power-mad world and a telling reminder of the sexism that pervades the movie business. 1995 [duke@nnbbs.com] Usenet: alt.showbiz.gossip (Jan. 6) “Re: Liking Demi Moore”: Demi’s “production company” is simply a vanity shell deal at Columbia Pictures. All the above-the-title actors have them to soothe their egos. Essentially, the studio gives them a few hundred thou to pay a D-girl or D-boy to “develop” scripts for them. 2004 Ms. Gonick San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Sept. 3) “Running down Lunacy Lane with a D-girl”: The idea came from Kitty, a D-girl (or, in wicked Hooeywood parlance, “Development Slut") from the TV division of Genius Nerd Films.

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2000: Sopranos Season 2 Episode 20. When Christopher approaches Amy, she adopts a strictly businesslike attitude, saying that the studio has lost interest in mob films. Furious, Christopher denounces her as a “fucking D-girl”, causing an offended Amy to proclaim that she is a vice president, before storming off.

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