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Unabridged
ISBN:
9780008508142
Content:
"'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson 'Something's crossed over in me and I can't go back,' says Geena Davis's Thelma to Susan Sarandon's Louise. The path to empowerment never did run smooth ... From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childhood to the roles that put her in the spotlight and gave her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood. At three years old, Geena announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed her childhood dream, but her journey has been one of fits and starts, with a pothole or two along the way. In this hilarious memoir, Geena regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent in Stuart Little,a soap star in her underwear to a housewife turned road warrior in Thelma & Louise,a baseball phenomenon in A League of Their Own to the first female President of the United States in Commander in Chief, and more. She is frank about her eccentric childhood,her many relationships, including her spontaneous Las Vegas wedding to Jeff Goldblum,her archery exploits which led her to the Olympic trials,and how she became a tireless advocate for women and girls, founding her own institute which engages film and TV creators to better represent women and actors from diverse backgrounds. Dying of Politeness is a touching account of one woman's journey to fight for herself, and ultimately fighting for women all around the globe."
Content:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 29, 2022 Academy Award–winning actor Davis’s spunky memoir presents her self-actualization via film roles: “I kicked ass onscreen way before I did so in real life.” Her charmingly perplexed tone about her misfit years growing up in New England can sometimes feel dissonant, like when she describes being molested by a neighbor when she was 10. After not-quite graduating (she never finished required credits) from Boston University, Davis moves to New York City and lands her first movie role, acting opposite Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie . She then charts her rise to the upper echelons of Hollywood upon relocating to L.A.: her first lead in obsessive Cronenberg’s The Fly (co-starring her second husband, Jeff Goldblum),the creative liberation of her role in Beetlejuice ,working with an unpredictable, raging Bill Murray on Quick Change , and—in contrast—a transformative collaboration with Susan Sarandon on Thelma and Louise . Davis hits typical memoir pitfalls, but frankly describes the sexual harassment she felt unable to call out as a woman with artistic ambitions in the industry before the vocabulary of #MeToo. She gets into her love of archery and the lack of roles for women over 40, but gives scant details of her experience of motherhood (“my favorite role of all one I plan to talk about the least”) or her four divorces. Davis displays trademark gumption, if uneven introspection, in this spunky chronicle of showbiz. Agent: Mollie Glick, CAA. "
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