Push the envelope, please!

[Natasha]

Push the envelope, please!

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2008/02/22/oscar_fixes/
02/22/2008

Speaking of increasing competition, why, in a world where women are increasingly referred to as "actors," is the nominating process still segregated by sex? Why shouldn't Meryl Streep go up against Jack Nicholson, and Kate Winslet against Robert Duvall, so that one actor alone might have his or her ego pumped to bursting?