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CALLERS TOP $550, PANTS $695, Sportmax; EARRING Jones’ own. The NEW GUARD SO LONG, HOLLYWOOD MAKE WAY FOR TINSELTOWN’S NEW SHOT CALLERS. A GENERATION BOYS’ OF WHIPSMART, GUTSY YOUNG WOMEN IS REWRITING THE RULES OF THE GAME IN TV CLUB AND FILM. THEY VANITY SH INGLE, for the Only this was no vanity project. Jones, ARE DIVERSE, uninitiated, is a production 38, and her partner and best friend, Will OUTSPOKEN, AND company overseen by a McCormack, had already cowritten the famous actor that gives a stu- smart 2012 indie anti-romance Celeste & UNAPOLOGETIC dio first dibs on whatever Jesse Forever, starring Jones, and Warner IN THEIR MISSION crazy ideas he or she happens Bros. saw real potential. Together, the pair RASHIDA Ato conjure up en route to the gym or day founded their own production outfit, TO SEIZE THE spa. It’s a venerable Hollywood status dubbed Le Train Train (slang for “the daily JONES SPOTLIGHT AND symbol—right up there with an infinity grind” in French), which is currently in the EXECUTIVE SHATTER SOME pool or a signature fragrance—and an easy midst of a major Hollywood hot streak. Of way for a studio to keep a prized talent con- the nine programs they’ve pitched to net- PRODUCER GLASS CEILINGS. tent and engaged. works so far, all have been snapped up for OF NBC’S SMASH AWAY, Which is why the announcement last further development. True, only a precious A TO Z, STAR year that Rashida Jones—the lovely, unas- few may make it past the stage, but the LADIES suming, eminently sensible actress best frenzy of sales represents an unheard-of bat- OF TBS’ ANGIE known for playing lovely, unassuming, emi- ting average for a fledgling company. On Edited by LEA GOLDMAN nently sensible characters on and October 2, their first series, the rom-com —had signed an agree- A to Z, premiered on NBC in a cherished Photographs by Rashida Jones at ment with Warner Bros. to develop televi- Thursday-night time slot. They’ve got two the of ices of her DAN MONICK production Shirt, $890, sion comedies and dramas was met with the more shows with solid chances of debuting company, Le Train skirt, $1,100, Train, on the shoes, $1,495, industry equivalent of a gentle pat on early next year. Warner Bros. lot. Altuzarra; cuff, price upon the head. The trades dutifully made note Jones is characteristically modest about request, David Yurman.

of the deal, and everyone promptly moved on. the feat. “We’ve been really, really lucky,” she MATTINGLY TRACEY AT LANCÔME FOR SCALI VANESSA MAKEUP: AGENCY. CELESTINE AT SHOULDERS & HEAD FOR BROOK SUNNIE HAIR: KNIGHT. SEAN EDITOR: FASHION

112 MARIECLAIRE.COM November 2014 November 2014 MARIECLAIRE.COM 113 The NEW GUARD Coat, $1,080, Marina Rinaldi; dress, $395, Theory; belt, $40, Ann Taylor; bracelets, from says. “We have a show on the air, and Later, while attending Harvard, she of the pile. You rely on everybody else to $3,450 each, Bulgari; tights, $35, Wolford. that’s insane. It never happens. I think we fell into a depression and turned to the allow you to do what you do.” That’s why, surpassed expectations, which now, of performing arts for relief, writing for though she stars in the title role of pregnant with Cristela—Alonzo grew up course, makes our job a little bit harder.” the college’s musical comedy club, Carell’s police , which in the Texas-border town of San Juan. In a town crowded with overprivileged Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and appear- premieres on TBS early next year, she’s “My mother ended up finding this aban- scions, Jones is exceedingly mindful ing in a production of For Colored wary about relying on acting as her pri- doned diner where she moved and had about surpassing expectations. Her Who Have Considered Suicide/ mary source of income. “The business is me. The first seven, eight years of my life, mother is Mod Squad actress Peggy When the Rainbow Is Enuf. After that, tough on women,” she says. “I don’t want my family lived as squatters in that Lipton; her father is legendary producer she was hooked. to think of the way I look as some com- diner,” says Alonzo. “As a kid, I really and composer , who also Her success was hardly a sure thing. modity that’s slipping away.” wanted to have my own show. But when executive-produced The Fresh Prince of “I wanted to be noticed, I wanted to be The sentiment is, perhaps, a more dip- you grow up in poverty, people tell you Bel-Air. Jones attended the elite Buckley respected, and I felt jealous when other lomatic reproach of her industry—and nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up School in Sherman Oaks, —her people had the opportunity,” Jones con- celebrities who exploit their sex appeal to on that dream.” get ahead—than the comments she made schoolmates included Kim Kardashian, fesses. “But I’m so happy that it took Alonzo eventually answered a want last year on , when she called out Paris Hilton, and Nicole Richie—where so long for anybody to really give me a ad for an office manager at a Dallas com- certain unnamed pop icons for basically she stood out for her academic diligence long-term job, because it made me edy club. Brassy and quick with a joke, letting it all hang out: “This week’s celeb and participation. “I was in every activ- appreciate what it’s like to be an out-of- she soon found herself onstage, where news takeaway: s he who comes closest to ity,” she recalls. “I got really good grades; work actor.” showing the actual inside of her vagina is the laughs came easily. She’d found her I was a mathlete. I wouldn’t say I have It also imbued in her an interest in most popular,” she wrote, tacking on the calling. A little over a year later, at age 24 , mastery in any one thing, but I’m pretty exerting more control over her career. : #stopactinglikewhores. she moved to , where she good at a bunch of stuff.” “As an actor, you’re kind of at the bottom The backlash was intense. Jones was scraped by touring and honing her mate- accused of sanctimony and “slut sham- rial. But the longer she spent on the road, JONES AND HER PARTNER ARE IN THE MIDST OF A ing.” But she remains unrepentant. “Let the more profane her material became. Alonzo on the By 2008, she realized she’d strayed far MAJOR HOLLYWOOD HOT STREAK. OF THE NINE it be said: I believe in a woman’s right to Los Angeles set express her sexuality … but are you of her ABC sitcom, outside her comfort zone. “I grew up in PROGRAMS THEY’VE PITCHED TO NETWORKS, ALL Cristela, which really being empowered by your sexual- the network a very Catholic household,” she explains. HAVE BEEN SNAPPED UP FOR DEVELOPMENT, WHICH ity, or do you just want to be liked, and initially passed on. “We were pretty conservative. I found IS UNHEARD OF FOR A FLEDGLING COMPANY. is it just an easy way to get attention?” myself doing raunchier jokes than I she asks. When it’s pointed out that for- student and her traditional family to ABC wanted to do.” mer schoolmates like Kardashian owe brass, who were so impressed that they For a year and a half, she cleaned up their celebrity in part to sex tapes, she reversed course and green-lit the series. her act. Her more mainstream material Jones is developing shows with more insists she doesn’t blame them for it. “It’s CRISTELA Clements, now an executive producer of helped land her a spot on , and well-rounded depictions of not their fault that they’re famous Cristela, compares the program to The development deals soon followed. While women. because of it,” she says. “My problem is ALONZO Cosby Show and . “Those shows early reviews for Cristela have been putting them in the same category with CREATOR AND had very specific winning people at the mixed, critics have praised Alonzo. anybody who has worked their asses off STAR OF ABC’S center of them. And I just recognized that (“Could not be more lovable,” gushed a to cultivate their talent. It just makes me in her,” she says of Alonzo. reviewer for E! Entertainment.) And sad. Why are we so obsessed with social- CRISTELA Alonzo’s star turn on a prime-time net- though current trend favors edgier, single- ites and girls who are amateur sex-tape work sitcom is a very big deal. Except for camera shows these days—like and stars? Can we also be obsessed with ERE’S A trail- Ugly ’s and The , for example—Alonzo women who have changed the world blazers don’t often share: CW’s recently debuted Jane The Virgin, is adamant that a traditional network and are really, really smart?” Breaking barriers usually adapted from a Venezuelan telenovela, multi-camera sitcom, with its studio Jones’ goal is to inject more nuanced requires bending a few Latinas—even superstars like Sofia audiences and laugh tracks, is the ideal portrayals of women into the zeitgeist. rules. Just ask 35-year-old Vergara and Eva Longoria—have largely way to capture her message. “I want this Like her charming NBC series A to Z, a stand-up comic Cristela been relegated to ensemble roles. Alonzo show to be seen by everybody,” she says deftly plotted chronicle of a blossoming HAlonzo, who scored her own eponymous of Cristela. “I can’t tell a story about a love affair between Cristin Milioti (How I sitcom on ABC even after the network is keenly aware of what that means. “I Met Your Mother) and Ben Feldman (Mad initially declined to shoot the script it had always feel like I give a face to a group working-class family on a premium chan- Men). “It’s like every woman in a movie commissioned based on her life as a first- that [audiences] are not familiar with. nel that you have to pay to get.” has to be perfectly adorable, and her life generation Mexican-American. Alonzo And when they get that face and they like She learned the hard way that authen- is a mess … and only when a man comes took the kill fee they paid her and pro- me, it’s easier for them to get everything, ticity is a prerequisite for success: in does everything really fall into place,” ceeded anyway, shooting a bare-bones get the culture a little bit better,” she says. “Regardless of whether [the show] fails she says. “I think the more iterations of a episode on the set of Tim Allen’s ABC The youngest of four children—her or succeeds, I have to do it my way.” woman that exist, the better. Even if sitcom Last Man Standing, executive- mother left an abusive husband while —Karen Schwartz they’re bad, if they’re good, if it’s ugly, produced by Becky Clements, who’s also if it’s messy—it just is better for everyone a big fan of Alonzo. “I was an unknown ALONZO’S STAR TURN ON A PRIMETIME NETWORK to see all of it.” —Aaron Gell name; I knew the odds were against me,” SITCOM IS A VERY BIG DEAL. LATINASEVEN Jacket, $1,095, Alonzo recalls. “We went a little rogue.” dress, $575, Band Alonzo and Clements presented SUPERSTARS LIKE SOFIA VERGARAHAVE of Outsiders; shoes,

$750, Giuseppe RUSH SAUNDERS DANIELLE MAKEUP: BUMBLE. AND BUMBLE FOR OLIVAREZ PAVY HAIR: ALONZO: the video about a Mexican-American law LARGELY BEEN RELEGATED TO ENSEMBLE ROLES. Zanotti Design. 114 MARIECLAIRE.COM November 2014 MARIECLAIRE.COM 115 The NEW GUARD

convinced Buck to give her the long- organic than I thought. I was the one in gestating Frozen to help rewrite. Lee’s con- the room who knew exactly what was tributions were significant. She and Buck going on in the characters’ heads.” JENNIFER recast the script, originally pitched as a Next up for Lee: the spring release of LEE conventional battle of good vs. evil (Elsa a Frozen short, as well as a screenplay was portrayed as a villain), to instead for a live-action adaptation of Madeleine SCREENWRITER reflect a struggle between fear and love. “It L’Engle’s 1962 classic, A Wrinkle in AND CODIRECTOR was like, Can’t we do something a little Time. “It’s such a hard book to do, which more dynamic and three-dimensional?” is why it has taken 30 years,” she says. OF DISNEY’S Lee recalls. “We said, What would it feel “I’m terrified and excited.” FROZEN like to be her? What would it feel like to As for her pioneering first-woman- finally be free, but have the weight of the world on her?” director status, Lee sees it as a harbinger OULD ANY contemporary of bigger changes. “I’m surrounded by film better epitomize the Soon after turning in the script, Lee women,” she explains. “On Wreck-It term “crossover hit” than was named director, alongside Buck. Ralph, half the story crew was women. Disney’s Frozen? This year’s Lee says the new title gave her more free- On Frozen, some of our lead animators Oscar-winning juggernaut dom to shape the look of the film. “I was about a Snow Queen and nervous about learning pro- were women. Hopefully animation will puckish sister has to date raked in duction,” she concedes. “I didn’t go to lead the industry. See! Female directors— $1.2 billion at the box office, becoming school for it. But it was actually far more they do well!” —K.S. the highest-grossing animated film in his- tory. For Jennifer Lee, its effervescent FROZEN CATAPULTED LEE INTO THE ELITE CLUB 43-year-old writer and codirector (and the first woman to helm a Disney ani- OF ÜBERDIRECTORS AND mated studio feature), the film served as GEORGE LUCAS AMONG THEMWHO HAVE

a catapult into the elite club of PRESIDED OVER BILLIONDOLLAR FILMS. AGENCY CELESTINE AT SHOULDERS & HEAD FOR BROOK SUNNIE MAKEUP: & HAIR LEE: überdirectors—Steven Spielberg and George Lucas among them—who have presided over billion-dollar films. Lee helped overhaul Lee, who directed Frozen along with the script to Frozen, which had originally Chris Buck, is among a new breed of cast Elsa as a film influentials taking their cues from conventional villain. television, where showrunners fre- quently assume the role of lead writer. “You can’t just do a straightforward story anymore,” she explains about the process of scripting a movie. “People get bored. You have to add layers to it. It has to be evocative. I think that creates a need for a very strong relationship between the writing and the directing, like in TV.” Born and raised in Rhode Island, Lee graduated with an English degree from the University of New Hampshire, then headed to , where she found work designing audiobook and DVD covers. “I was definitely one of those liberal-arts kids who didn’t know what I wanted to do,” she says. “It literally took me until I was 28 to realize I should do films.” After she graduated from ’s film school, former classmate Phil Johnston asked her to work with him on the script for Wreck-It Ralph. It was her work on that animated film that

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Cards and Orange Is the reboot of . CENTRAL COMEDY OF COURTESY POSCH: SUBJECT; OF COURTESY RHIMES: GETTY; WATTS: GETTY OTHERS: ALL ; SUBJECTS OF COURTESY BELL: AND MINGHELLA shepherded a slew of year when she left her Anne Wojcicki.

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CONTENT Three years ago, the Fusion, the new QUEENS CONT. SOCIAL ANIMALS former TechCrunch youth-focused editor raised $2.5 cable partnership million from Silicon between ABC and Valley heavies like Univision. ON PayPal’s Peter Thiel 92% and Zappos’ Tony Hsieh—while on KELLY maternity leave—to KRAUSE launch her must-read 32, PUBLICIST, tech blog. Critics say SXSW INTERACTIVE KELLJOKRAUSE she’s a shill for STEPHANIE ON Can’t score a seat at investors, but love 92% one of SXSW’s her or hate her, RUHLE there’s no denying 38, MANAGING Twitter standing-room-only EDITOR, panels? Thank Krause, her insider status. BLOOMBERG TV who liaises with A-list EDITORƒATƒLARGE, BLOOMBERG tech firms and media NEWS SRUHLE ON outlets to craft and The Wall Street curate the influential veteran who logged 84% festival’s must-see 14 years at Deutsche keynotes and events. Bank and Credit Among her gets: Nasty ALICIA Suisse now hosts Gal’s Sophia Amoruso, MENENDEZ Bloomberg’s Market Cory Booker, and 31, HOST OF FUSION’S ALICIA Makers, where she’s Ray Kurzweil. MENENDEZ TONIGHT taking on CNBC’s ON ALICIAMENENDEZ morning business 65% The former cohost of roundup Squawk SiriusXM Cristina Box. Claim to fame: LinkedIn Radio’s Power Play so plugged-in, she and host of HuffPost broke the news of Live , Menendez was the London Whale, ON SARAH LACY tapped last year to the JPMorgan 27% 38, FOUNDER, CEO & anchor her own Chase trader at the EDITORƒINƒCHIEF, PANDODAILY evening news and center of the bank’s SARAHCUDA politics show on mega-loss in 2012. A-List Entrepeneurs

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ESSICA BRIT MORIN EMIL WEISS ULIA RUZWANA ALBA 28, FOUNDER & CEO, 29, CEO & HARTZ BASHIR 33, COFOUNDER, THE BRIT & CO (@BRIT) CREATIVE DIRECTOR, 34, COFOUNDER & 31, FOUNDER & CEO, HONEST COMPANY The self-proclaimed INTO THE GLOSS PRESIDENT, PEEK.COM (@JESSICAALBA) Martha Stewart of (@INTOTHEGLOSS) EVENTBRITE (@RUZWANA) Alba’s nontoxic baby runs an The ultra-influential (@JULIAHARTZ) The Fulbright Scholar product line raised online DIY empire, beauty blogger boasts Her online-ticketing founded this travel- $70 million in backed by Yahoo’s a collaboration with site has issued booking site with funding this summer. Marissa Mayer and Warby Parker and her more than 200 million funding from Google’s That puts its value at former Apple exec Allison own upcoming beauty tickets worldwide and

over $1 billion. Johnson, among others. brand, Glossier. and counting. Twitter ’s . SUBJECTS OF COURTESY OTHERS: ALL ; GETTY WEISS: AND HARTZ, BASHIR, ALBA,

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S TA R DEAL MAKERS Valley VIPs 1. ESSE DRAPER 30, CEO, VALLEY GIRL INC. (@JESSEDRAPER) The former Nickelodeon kid star is the creator and LORINE host of buzzy web series PENDLETON 6. The Valley Girl Show. 44, DIRECTOR OF 2. LAURA LEE BUSINESS LINDSE 39, HEAD OF NORTH DEVELOPMENT, AMERICAN CONTENT DENTONS GREEN LORINEPENDLETON 30, VP, PARTNERSHIPS, SKDKNICKERBOCKER GOOGLE YOUTUBE A former entertainment (@LINDSEYMGREEN) If you’re a media outfit lawyer who brokered The in-the-know tech with a presence on deals for Spike Lee publicist reps a slew of notable New York YouTube, odds are and Stevie Wonder, startups like Of a good you’ve hashed she’s now an angel Kind and Bustle. out the terms with the investor in women- 3. Harvard Business and minority-run 5. ELLEN LEV School graduate, who’s ventures. She sits 45, MANAGING DIRECTOR, cut deals with all the on the boards of the SILICON VALLEY CONNECT (@ELLENLEVY) biggies—NBC, CBS, National Black Dubbed a “super- Discovery Networks Programming connector” by Fast International, and Vice Consortium , which Company, she’s sat on more than 50 boards over to name just a few; finances African- the course of her career. the former head of American programming 4. business development to air on PBS, and 4. 2. for MTV Music & WomenLEAD, an ESSICA online mentoring LIVINGSTON Logo was recently 43, FOUNDING PARTNER, appointed to the board platform. She also Y COMBINATOR helped organize (@FOUNDERSATWORK) of American Apparel. It’s easier to get into TEDxHarlem. Harvard than her startup accelerator, which accepts 1. just 3 percent of 6,000 applicants every year. 5. ANE MCGONIGAL 36, GAME DESIGNER ERIN DANA SETTLE 7. (@AVANTGAME) MCPHERSON 42, FOUNDING The alternate-reality- PARTNER, game pioneer founded 46, CHIEF CONTENT GREYCROFT Gameful, a network for OFFICER, MAKER PARTNERS game developers. STUDIOS DSETTLE ERIN_MCPHERSON 2. 6. Yahoo’s former video The former Lehman BRITT strategy guru last year Brothers banker MORGAN- jumped to Maker opened up the West SAKS Coast office of this 35, HEAD OF ARTIST Studios, one of SERVICES, NORTH YouTube’s biggest firm AMERICA, at a time when few (@BMORGANSAKS) video creators and The longtime Sony/ATV distributors, where she paid attention to the record exec is now Spotify’s oversees content for nascent Los Angeles artist ambassador. more than 55,000 digital scene. 7. channels that generate Among her big bets: KATIE over 8.5 billion views early investments ACOBS monthly . Among her in AwesomenessTV 3. STANTON projects: a comedy (sold to DreamWorks), 44, VP GLOBAL MEDIA, Maker Studios TWITTER (@KATIES) series by Ben Stiller and The go-to for media a collaboration with (sold to Disne y), outlets looking to partner Disney on the next Star and Trunk Club (sold with Twitter.

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