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" Lena Dunham is producing and directing a new series for HBO about feminism in the Mad Men era. \u00A0 According to Variety, the 29-year-old actor and writer will direct the pilot episode of Max, a half-hour comedy series set in 1963 amid the rise of second-wave feminism. The main character, played by Lisa Joyce, is Maxine, &amp;quot;an enthusiastic, if misguided, low-level magazine employee who stumbles into the forefront of a civil rights movement both she and the world may not be ready for,&amp;quot; reports\u00A0Deadline Hollywood.  Dunham, the creator of HBO&amp;#039;s Girls, is also executive producer on the new series. Another writer and executive producer on Girls, Murray Miller, wrote the pilot episode of Max.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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