My childhood was not ideal Photographer Anne Geddes writes in her new book, Labor of Love: An Autobiography, about her childhood on a cattle farm in Australia, with an “emotionally remote mother and a father who regularly demeaned his children.” She “grew up with no sense of self-worth,” according to the interview article Anne Geddes’ [...]
“I always feel like something of an impostor. I don’t know what I’m doing.” Admired and insecure Jodie Foster made that comment recently when she was guest of honor at the Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast. She is a recipient of the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. A highly accomplished actor-director-producer, Foster said, [...]
Mixed messages One of the pleasures of many films of the 30s, 40s, and 50s was the dynamic presence and performance of women such as Myrna Loy (Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, etc). Jeanine Basinger, a professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University, describes the impacts of these films in her book How [...]
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