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The result is that Hollywood movies are returning to the old days, when it was a man’s world. Which leads me to another thought: Did these women have a better win-loss box-office record than the men? Nearly all have green-lighted embarrassments as well as failures. Some were testosterone-heavy violence fests. Others were chick flicks that not even gals wanted to see. A few were big, fat blockbusters.

Actually, their record seems no worse than their male counterparts’. And that’s the point: Hollywood, like most industries, sets the bar higher for its woman executives. They can’t just be equal to men, they have to be better. So that may be why this woman’s-world era is coming to an end. There’s no doubt the women were good. They just weren’t good enough to suit the men still in charge of them.