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Southern comfort
Kristin Davis’ confidence used to come from a bottle, says Sarah Maber in Psychologies. As a teenager growing up in South Carolina, Davis was a wallflower. “I was really shy. I didn’t know how to come out of my shell.”
Then she discovered bourbon. “Everyone gets mad at me when I say this, but it’s [...]
It starts with the scripts
Actor Naomie Harris [Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3; Miami Vice and others] comments on the portrayal of women in movies: “Everything starts in the writing, and getting more and more women’s perspective in the writing will have a huge impact on the quality of films we get. At the [...]
I had to sort of figure it out for myself
Ellen Pompeo was four when her mother died, at age 33. A new article says “her five older siblings were dissolved in grief; her father.. was wracked by a sorrow he was unable to articulate.” It was “a very, very vivid, painful memory,” Pompeo says. [From [...]
In a recent interview for Reuters news, Ellen Burstyn commented, “Acting? I think it needs some help. TV has lowered the bar. With quicker schedules everything is rushed, so the quality gets lowered.”
Burstyn won the Best Actress Academy Award for 1974’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and has a total of six Oscar nominations, seven [...]
