If there's anyone making the boy-oriented computer world fashionable, it's Theresa Duncan. The stylish film and CD-ROM writer, producer and director is sick of seeing women portrayed as girlfriends, victims or not at all. She's determined to create new work with “strong and smart women at the center of the action.” The History of Glamour, her latest project, a film developed from a CD-ROM, is the story of the hip Charles Valentine, who rises to pop stardom and then throws it all away to become a writer. A Detroit native, Duncan went from being a rare-book cataloguer at an auction house to an editor at the World Bank in D.C., where she passed the time by creating interactive valentines and dreaming of becoming a librarian, because she “loved being around books, all that knowledge and possibility.” She decided to combine her interest in digital media with her love of storytelling. Her first CD-ROM, Chop Suey, won Entertainment Weekly's CD-ROM of the year award in 1996. Next came Smarty, Zero Zero and The History of Glamour. Based on Glamour, VH1 has bought Duncan's next three projects. She's currently working on an animated series about a married detective couple. Remember Hart to Hart? Think funnier and smarter. Move over, Aaron Spelling.
Theresa wears a top by Ashley Pearce.
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