Why have I never seen this before?

We saw and loved “Libeled Lady”:http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60010593&trkid=189530&dmode=ATAGLANCE&lnkctr=mdptabDetails&#details, a screwball comedy from 1936 starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow. Super cast, especially Powell and Loy (this was filmed a couple years after The Thin Man), and a wild plot. A surprise announcement at the end has us all set up for a tidy ending, before another surprise announcement throws things back into chaos.

Libeled Lady was nominated in the “1936 Academy awards”:http://www.filmsite.org/aa36.html for Best Picture, which was won by The Great Ziegfeld, also a Powell and Loy production. Two of the other outstanding movies from that year were My Man Godfrey and Mr Deeds Goes to Town.

Amazing to think such a new medium could have such great work so early on– after all talking pictures had been introduced only a decade earlier. I suppose you could say that similarly amazing degree of progress was made in the first decade of the web– but in 70 years, will anyone still be reading the pages we create today?

I read this over on the “Jobster blog”:http://jobster.blogs.com and thought I’d pick it up here– “Moms Corp”:http://www.momcorps.com/index.html links up experienced professional moms with companies needing project based work.

This is a great idea. The best professionals enter the active job market just a few times in their lifetime. Graduating from school is one; returning to the work force after having a child is another. Beginning with project based work gives a company the chance to meet immediate needs with high quality talent, while investing in a relationship that can grow to a full time position.

The Mom Corps helps today’s businesses reduce overhead and increase productivity by providing high-level accounting, legal, marketing, and IT services on a part-time and project basis. At the same time, we provide an opportunity for highly accomplished professionals to find a desired balance between career and family.