![]() ![]() Memories provides a private, safe and beautiful space to capture their life story for now and for future generations.Īnd with our mobile app, all the memories are always right there with you. Now you can remember your loved one together with a Memories online memorial. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at is never easy, but it’s harder when family and friends can’t be there. ![]() Now that is badass.ĭying of Politeness by Geena Davis is published by William Collins (£20). ![]() As a direct result of her research gathering data on representation in children’s film and television, inspired by the dearth of role models when her daughter was young, the industry has made conscious changes and female leads and co-leads in family films and TV shows achieved gender parity in 2019. She writes movingly about the deaths of her beloved parents and saves her fiercest passion for the work she now does with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Bentonville film festival, established to promote female film-makers and ‘“diverse voices”. Some readers may feel cheated that there is more detail here about her pets than her children, or that she is so reticent about the end of her three marriages, but she has clearly had to establish boundaries around her family’s privacy in the face of press intrusion. She has erred on the side of jaunty and conversational rather than soul-baring in the book and her combination of humour and self-deprecation is immediately appealing (she includes a section of verbatim encounters with the public that would puncture any Hollywood ego). “Susan has changed my life more than anyone I’ve ever known.” (Some of that self-belief evidently rubbed off when the film roles dried up in her 40s, Davis took up archery and within a couple of years was ranked 29th in the US Olympic trials.) Like so many women in a situation like that, I didn’t know how to avoid being treated that way I shut up and played along.”ĭavis, top, with Susan Sarandon in 1991: ‘Susan has changed my life more than anyone I’ve ever known’. Watch how Bill flirts with me and paws at me and even pulls down the strap of my dress… For that matter, notice how I giggle and go along with it, as if we’re great pals as if the raging hadn’t happened, as if the way they’re both objectifying me is really fun. “I tell this story because some time later we appeared together on The Arsenio Hall Show to publicise the movie,” she writes. (The other men in the room did nothing to make it stop.) Murray later screamed at her on the set of Quick Change for being late (she wasn’t) in front of their colleagues. There’s the director who asked her to audition by sitting on his lap while he rubbed his face in her breasts (she complied) or the time Bill Murray, during a meeting, insisted on trying out a massage machine on her, despite her repeated refusals. The representation of women and girls in the industry, on screen and behind the camera, is a drum she beats unapologetically throughout and the book is peppered with anecdotes that paint a depressingly familiar picture of the way female actors were treated. ![]() There’s the director who asked her to audition by sitting on his lap while he rubbed his face in her breasts As in va-gina.” “It turned out my entire identity was based on the fear of vaginas,” Davis notes drily. For years, Davis fondly thought her mother didn’t know the correct way of spelling “Gina” she was well into her 20s before her mother explained: “I didn’t want anyone to think it was pronounced ‘gina’. Even her name comes from a desire to avoid being impolite. Davis, now 66, announced her intention to be in the movies at the age of three, thus displaying a penchant for attention-seeking quite at odds with the prevailing mores of Wareham, Massachusetts, in the 1950s. ![]()
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