“I don’t know if I would have made the same choices if I hadn’t grown up around the passion my parents had for playing authentic and deeply flawed characters. “Their artistic passion existed, like another entity in the house. Now I get that I wouldn’t be a full parent to my kids without it, any [...]
“I’m a very sensitive person. I hurt real easy and real deep, which is why I think I have to write songs, [and] why so many of them fit the feelings of so many people that can’t write. It’s because I feel everything to my core.” Dolly Parton > related blog: Highly Sensitive People ~~ [...]
Flower Films was founded in 1994 by Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen, when Drew was 19. Their first production was Never Been Kissed (1999), followed by Charlie’s Angels, and others. In a Vogue magazine interview [Feb 2006], Barrymore commented, “I knew what our intentions were, but they had nothing to do with success. “Doesn’t matter [...]
Working as a director in the 1950s, Ida Lupino commented,”You don’t tell a man; you suggest to them.” Ally Acker writes in her bio, “The back of her director’s chair read, ‘Mother Of Us All…’, a nom de plume that Ida Lupino solicited, encouraged and used fully to subversive advantage. It was her armor against [...]
Fiona Apple Fiona Apple took six years off from performing before releasing her latest album “Extraordinary Machine” last year. She says, “I realized that after six years of not doing this kind of stuff, it doesn’t define who I am, and I’ll be just fine without it. It’s not a life-or-death-thing anymore, or at least [...]
Excerpt from article: Agonizing success of ‘Artist’s Way’ – The creator of the bestseller never divulged her extreme struggles – until now. By Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times June 23, 2006; photo by Spencer Weiner] I have felt as if I were coming apart Julia Cameron spoke thoughtfully about a variety of subjects, including her [...]
Meredith Vieira “Just as she started to experience success in front of the camera [in the 1970s], Meredith Vieira found herself embroiled in an abusive relationship,” a new More magazine article reveals. “My career was starting to take off, and he was a person that tried to take control,” Vieira says. “He would slap me [...]
Contingent self-esteem A number of women have said that it can be a liability, and a new Psychology Today article [The Beguiling Truth About Beauty, by Carlin Flora] says that ”very attractive kids may grow up to be insecure adults, especially if they were praised solely for their appearance. They may develop a particularly harsh [...]
Julie Delpy on confusion Julie Delpy just commented in a blog: “It seems that as women start to earn more money men don’t feel as needed. So, if men aren’t the primary breadwinners, what’s their role? “And strong women are confused, too, because even though they’re strong and independent they still want to be feminine [...]
Jane Russell famously starred in “The Outlaw” in 1943, and moved from a Montecito mansion to a subdivision in Santa Maria in 1999. “When I moved up here, there wasn’t a lot for seniors to do,” she said. “And we were all so sick of today’s music.” At age 84, she is singing the songs [...]
Media for young children Geena Davis portrays the U.S. President on “Commander in Chief” and is founder of the organization See Jane, whose research finds that “male characters still dominate television, movies, and other media for young children. “Since women and girls make up half of the human race, the presence of a wide variety [...]
Nicole Holofcener Being overly critical of our work and ourselves can deflate our creative vitality. But we can also use self-criticism for powerful and meaningful creative work, such as writer and director Nicole Holofcener has done with her new film “Friends With Money.” I put my foibles out there She comments in an article, “I [...]
Rebecca Romijn Rebecca Romijn says of her character in her new tv series “Pepper Dennis” that she “gets in her own way. She thinks you can’t have it all and, of course, everyone’s version of ‘all’ varies. But I think there’s a way to do it with grace and joy. People think that if you [...]
A number of highly talented people have suffered from eating disorders such as anorexia. Talented kids Psychotherapist Jenn Berman outlines some of the possible reasons in her article Child Performers and Eating Disorders, noting that “experts have found that many of the personality traits which make children great athletes or performers are the very same [...]
Trying to be my powerful me Teri Hatcher reveals in Vanity Fair magazine that she was sexually abused by an uncle as a child. “This is something I’ve tried to hide my whole life,” she said. “Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself. I have so much pain. I’m [...]
“Acting, saved my life.” A number of comments by women intrigue me about how they – and those of us of the male persuasion as well – deal with anger, frustrations, rage, anxiety and other often disrupting emotions. The passionate CEO & President of La Negrita Productions, Sandra Duque [photo] said in an interview, “My [...]
Kay Redfield Jamison Psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison has said of her own experience with bipolar disorder: “When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones.” Other accomplished women who have a history of unipolar depression or bipolar [...]
Queen Latifah In her bio Ladies First : Revelations of a Strong Woman, Queen Latifah writes that she wants people “to see me as someone who is proud and comfortable with who I am…. Be secure in yourself. You don’t need me – or any other public person, for that matter – to validate you.” [...]
