Actresses & eating disorders Among many other actresses who have struggled with eating disorders are Scarlett Pomers ["Reba"], Felicity Huffman [“Desperate Housewives”], Jane Fonda and now possibly Kate Bosworth, according to recent pictures with her ribs all too visible [right], and multiple reports of her smoking rather than eating. Supposedly she even had to have [...]
Facing the truth Hilary Swank, commenting about being single again, said she is “the happiest I’ve ever been.. not because I’m getting a divorce, because I’m living in truth now. My happiness has stemmed from being brutally honest with myself, facing the truth every single day, no matter how hard it is. “It’s not happiness [...]
“I don’t see myself as a sexy person…. For a long time, I had a hard time finding things I liked about myself physically. I’d never look in the mirror…’cause I didn’t really like what I saw. “One day I looked in the mirror because I wanted to find something that I liked about myself [...]
Struggling actors In Scarlett Johansson’s new movie, struggling actress Elizabeth Short (aka The Black Dahlia, played by Mia Kirshner) is shown auditioning for role after role. Johansson says she has “a lot of friends who are very talented actors and musicians who struggle… “Any time that you are involved in a field that’s revolving around [...]
“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 [...]
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