Opinion: It’s been a good weekend for the gals

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It’s been something of a Great Dame weekend for me.

First was my Saturday ‘Patt Morrison Asks’ Q and A column with Gloria Steinem, the ground-breaking feminist, which you can read here.

Whatever you think of her -- and judging from the e-mails I’ve been getting, nobody’s lukewarm about Gloria Steinem -- her influence on the nation’s 20th century social history has been substantial.

Then, I was tickled to spend Saturday evening in Palm Springs -- but not for the usual reasons that make people happy to be in Palm Springs.

I was there presenting a Palm Springs Women in Film and Television award to my friend, producer Gale Anne Hurd. She had earned the ‘Broken Glass’ award, I said on Saturday, for giving a whole new meaning to ‘chick flick,’ with her fierce and fearless choices that have given us Oscar-honored movies and more. Among them: the ‘Terminator’ films, ‘Aliens,’ ‘The Abyss,’ a couple of ‘Hulks’ and ‘Aeon Flux,’ to the Independent Spirit award-winner ‘The Waterdance,’ along with a new film, ‘The Wronged Man,’ based on a true story, and one of my small-film faves of Gale’s, ‘Dick,’ a movie that Leonard Maltin lists as one of the 151 best films you’ve never seen. And I have. Twice.

And then the triple play: coming home from Palm Springs to see Kathryn Bigelow win not only for best director -- thank goodness it isn’t ‘directress’ -- but also for another best, as ‘The Hurt Locker’ laid claim to being best picture.

Mark this weekend as one for the girls.

-- Patt Morrison