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Doris Day Music Award 
Part of the Genesis award presented to such disparate performers as Nellie McKay, Michael Jackson, heavy metal group Megadeth fand so on.

The Doris  Film/ Doris Manifesto
February 25, 2006 A Good Day for Doris

 It’s not just economically that the Swedes are ahead of the curve. Moira Sullivan, a member of the Swedish Film Critics Association who covered the Venice Film Festival for us in September, reports on efforts to achieve a greater degree of gender equality in the Swedish film industry
Authentic scripts for women’s roles and gender equality for film financing are the greatest demands women have been making of the Swedish film industry. A national chapter of Women in Film and Television actively works to help achieve these goals. At this year’s festival in Göteborg, a special seminar was held to discuss how to increase the participation of women in filmmaking, with the inauguration of Sweden’s first cinema manifesto. This eye-catching initiative comes from Doris Film, a group of Göteborg-based filmmakers who have written their own Doris Manifesto for filmmaking without any “shoulds”: all films must be written by women, all films must have at least one female leading part, all original music must be composed by women, and women must fill all the major artistic and decision-making roles. To achieve this, Doris presently holds a script competition in which three films a year are chosen for financing. The latest winners were presented at the seminar and the filmmakers and scriptwriters invited on stage: Shoot Me, from Anna Hylander; Susanne Goes Single, Lena Hanno Clyne; and Mon 3, Lena Koppel.
“There is one problem with the Doris Manifesto”, said Swedish filmmaker Miko Lazic (Made In Yugoslavia, 2005). “They should be making features, not shorts!” Well enough. But Doris, named for Doris Day, by the way, is working in the right direction.
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Flower named after Doris Day:  Dahlias What’s In A Name?
 By Dave Bates

The fact remains that many varieties have been named after people, famous or otherwise so that names of celebrities and others live on for many years. A few that come to mind are Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Doris Day, and Sir Alf Ramsey. A pink giant decorative from the mid 1900’s is H.M.Queen Elizabeth, which on first sight would seem to have been named after Queen Elizabeth II, but on closer investigation, it originated during the reign of George VI, and was in fact named after his queen, the late Queen Mother