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A SPIN OFF of a fictional Web site masterminded by The L Word character Alice, OurChart.com has quickly become a real-life contender, drawing more than 550,000 unique visitors a month to the lesbian social networking site. It's become a launch pad for experiments with new delivery formats for original creative material, as evidenced by GirlTrash!, Angela Robinson's cutting-edge girl gangster Web series. Frank, funny and ever friendly, success hasn't yet gone to Robinson's head. While she's worked within Disney-bankrolled budgets and practically nonexistent ones, she's managed to keep her wit and vision intact in both studio and indie production contexts. In fact, the successful director of D.E.B.S. and Herbie: Fully Loaded has practically carved out an action-packed, humor-filled, girl-powered oeuvre--in GirlTrash!. As in her previous work, women are the ones kicking ass and taking names (with a few kissing breaks).
It's great to see an A-list director adding content to a community site like OurChart.com. How did you get involved?
I was initially approached by Ilene Chaiken, the creator of The L Word, when I was working on the show last season. She, together with her OurChart partners--Hilary Rosen and Beth Callaghan--took me out to lunch and pitched me the idea of doing a Web series. I'd wanted to experiment with doing something on the Internet for awhile, so it seemed like a good opportunity. They told me I could do whatever I wanted, so I treated it as sort of a writing exercise. I'd always had the idea to do a down-and-out buddy comedy with chicks, and this seemed like a great way to tell that story.
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