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My parents were very strict, but not with ideas.
They really wanted us to form our own ideas about the world, and I think that's why I am so aggressive about educating myself and becoming the best form of myself that I can. //
I look at what Meryl Streep does, and I'm like, "Where did she begin, how did she do that, how could she do that?"
And then I just start to feel frustration and anxiety and ultimately depression because I can't do that.
But if I start to idolize her or put her on a pedestal, then I completely cancel out the possibility that one day I might be able to have some insight into her work. The moment I admire someone too much I start to think I'll never get close, and then I stop trying. My only wish for myself is that I always keep trying.
Bryce Dallas Howard
> Interview, Feb 2005 / Her parents are Ron and Cheryl Howard.
> She was cast in The Village without having an audition after M. Night Shyamalan saw her in a Broadway show. Her upcoming films include Manderlay, the sequel to Dogville.~ ~ ~ ~
These days, heroes and heroines are in scarce supply. We live in an age of image, where people are famous for being famous. Our celebrity culture often glorifies those who are notorious, not noteworthy.
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..An image can be easily altered: It can go from good to bad in an instant. Today's heroine becomes tomorrow's villain, and we become cynical when these synthetic idols disappoint us. Not so with Marie Curie [1867-1934], who believed that "you cannot build a better society without improving individuals."
She thought of the good of humanity before her own good. She blazed a trail for others to follow.
Barbara Goldsmith / Parade, Nov 28 2004
Obsessive Genius : The Inner World of Marie Curie --
by Barbara Goldsmith
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Isabella seems in some ways like a child. She's so graceful and down to earth and funny and smart and worldly. She's passionate about what she does.
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..I've also just watched her enjoy everything, keep her sense of humor when things get rough. And she's a woman who is who she is.
She's Isabella Rossellini, and she's always been Isabella Rossellini. She's so grounded and real. As a young actor who's really just starting out, you can see where you should be and who you should be like.
She's someone to emulate, because there are so many people who just start to believe that they are the be-all and end-all of the world -- and nobody is.
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..> Kristin Kreuk / Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2004
> photos : Kristin Kreuk as Tenar, the successor to High Priestess Thar (Isabella Rossellini, right) in the Sci Fi Channel series "Legend of Earthsea"
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[Who would you most like to portray on the silver screen?] Emily Dickinson [right], any of the wonderful, great writers. As far as my age group is concerned, we don't see enough real characters. It's either some kid who's strung out on drugs and totally screwed up, or she's a teen princess and everything is, like, sweet and fun.
I'm sure a lot of older women feel that way too. I think any kind of honest female role would be great.
Amber Tamblyn / Interview, Oct 2004
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[Who would you most like to portray on the silver screen?] Oh, Christiane Amanpour... I think she's a woman who is a great role model... she's hardworking and strong and courageous. She's doing an incredible service.. by bringing us news from very difficult parts ot the world.
Emmy Rossum / Interview, Oct 2004 / > photo of Amanpour from cnn.com
There are a lot of people who are very good at what they do, and then there are a few who are just touched, as if they're from a different planet of talent. She [Meryl Streep] raises the bar for us all. It's just thrilling to watch someone move so effortlessly from one stage of her life into the next and just get better and better.
Laura Linney / InStyle, Oct 2004 / photo by Jeff Vespa/WireImage /
[Meryl Streep in "The Manchurian Candidate"]
As a young actress, I saw her [Gena Rowlands] in "Opening Night." She was so larger than life, yet her performances are so detailed -- no color is left out. She's ferocious, beautiful, elegant, compassionate, funny, sexy. A broad in the best sense of the word -- that's what I aspire to be.
Marisa Tomei / InStyle, Oct 2004
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason says she can't stand the lack of strong women on television now. "If they're strong, it's mostly in a sexual sense now. There's no Lucy, Maude, Mary, Candace, Suzanne or Julia. It's basically dead hotties in morgue drawers waiting for autopsies. I resent it as a form of entertainment. I think it's misogynist and destructive to women."
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..She also resents the characterization of Hollywood as elitist. "It's nonsense that we're nothing like Middle America. We are Middle America. Most of us came from Minnesota and Iowa, Missouri. It amazes me. Hollywood probably gives more money for good reason than anywhere else in the country." In 1999, she joined Mavis Leno in a movement to help Afghan women suppressed by the Taliban. She also created a foundation in her hometown that she says has sent 100 young women to college.
She is creator of the TV series "Designing Women"... and says of her debut novel, Liberating Paris, "I wanted to write about smart, intelligent people who live in the rural South."
from article Liberation -- for herself and hicks -
by Lynn Smith, Los Angeles Times Sept 13, 2004
photo by Gene Arias
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Katharine Hepburn and Vivien Leigh are my heroes. Not because of their ability, but because of their perseverance.
Keira Knightley.... [imdb.com bio]
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I happen to think Tarantino's kung-fu divas [in "Kill Bill"] are a great deal more original, even "womanly" than they have been given credit for... writer Molly Haskell
more in article: Warrior Women On Screen
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Jodie Foster
Valedictorian, Le Lycee Francais; magna cum laude grad of YalePaul Robeson [1898-1976]
1918 : is one of only four classmates admitted to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior yearfrom page : gifted / talented arts celebrities
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The truth is that there aren't many movies that speak to women these days. That's not a complaint; it's a statement of fact. "Mona Lisa Smile" is too smug and reductive. But smitten by the rare sight of so many actresses crowding the screen (with their clothes on, no less) and talking about real things that matter to real women -- do you need to choose between a life of the mind and a life of hot kitchens and baby diapers? -- I fell for the film nonetheless.
For all its flaws, its obvious if irrelevant similarity to "Dead Poets Society," it lets us spend some quality time with some of the finest actresses in American film as they give energetic life to one of the most radically underrepresented minorities in Hollywood: the intelligent woman.
from Fuzzy feminism and smart women by Manohla Dargis, LA Times Dec 19, 2003
photo: Julia Roberts, Daisy Baldwin, Julia Stiles on set of Mona Lisa Smile~ ~ ~ ~....
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...Action Chicks : New Images of Tough Women
in Popular Culture - by Sherrie A. InnessLara Croft and Barb Wire: Role models or boy toys? Xena and Buffy: Why did they have to die? Action chicks are here--in movies and TV, in comics and video games -- in our lives, and they're not going away, nor do we want them to go away.
Aside from the obvious -- that if La Femme Nikita can be buffed and beautiful, kick butt and wear fabulous clothes, so can we -- what message do these women have for us?
In ten mind-opening chapters, Action Chicks, takes on the positive and the negative of tough babes from comic books to the World Wrestling Federation, and gave this Xena fan enough meaty subject matter to chew on that I didn't feel hungry after reading the book.
Trina Robbins, author of From Girls to Grrrlz
and The Great Women CartoonistsAction Chicks is insightful, provocative, and fun to read. From action figures to video games, this book explains who the chicks are and what they mean.
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..Trenchant and compelling analysis.
Robin Roberts, Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University - author of Sexual Generations: Star Trek:The Next Generation and Ladies First: Women in Music Videos
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Warrior Women On Screen by Douglas Eby~ ~ ~ ~
The stars are getting in and out of automobiles
And we keep wondering when we're gonna feel something real
Keep waiting for a Santa that'll never come
A real party not just people who're faking fun
But everything gets erased before it's even said
And all that glitters isn't gold when inside it's dead
All that glitters is not gold
All that glitters is not gold...The Empty- lyrics by Le Tigre [right] from their album Le Tigre
.. .. Their only other choice is flipping burgers and selling dope. Most of the country is women and minorities, but their sum makes up less than 11% of all technical jobs. Average kid doesn't know a scientist or an engineer. Don't believe any are women or minorities or have fun. We need to convince these minorities to participate. The rock stars and sports players aren't going to do it. All you technologists get an A+ for doing great things but a D- for being socially responsible. So we need the Olympic Committee of Smarts. FIRST. Kids doing things with real adults that do things that are important. |
.. .. Have to show the kids that it's every bit as fun as shooting hoops but there are a few more jobs available. It took off. This year we had 17 cities hold regional events. Big cities. We are creating demand. But we're missing mentors that understand technology and can show kids that science isn't middle-aged men in lab coats. We need your support. You're all busy. If you're not busy, I don't want you. But you need to participate. Dean Kamen-
from a page on Aaron
Swartz: The Weblog -
Dean Kamen is founder of DEKA Research & Development -- developer of the Segway Human Transporter. |
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Joan of Arc She has an almost unique standing. She is a universal figure who is female, but is neither a queen, nor a courtesan, nor a beauty, nor a mother, nor -- until the extremely recent date of 1920 when she was canonized -- a saint. She eludes the categories in which women have normally achieved a higher status that gives them immortality, and yet she gained it.
Marina Warner. Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Many [heroic women] were persecuted for rebelling against traditions that denied the equality of women. ... After transforming herself from an illiterate peasant girl to an accomplished warrior and military hero, Joan of Arc was abandoned and betrayed by those whom she had served, charged with seventy offenses (including witchcraft, heresy, and wearing and refusing to abandon male clothing), excommunicated, and executed in 1433.
Kathleen Noble, PhD. Sound of a Silver Horn: Reclaiming the Heroism in Contemporary Women's Lives
images of Joan of Arc: painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863 /
Jean Seberg in "Saint Joan" [1957] / Leelee Sobieski in "Joan of Arc" [1999]related article: Warrior Women On Screen
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The only real role model I had growing up was Debbie Allen. She was the only black actress at the time that was making it happen. She could act. She could dance. She could direct. I would just like the younger generation now to see more versatility.
Jada Pinkett Smith... [Lifetime mag., July/Aug 2003]
...bio: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild - by David Stenn
The pace of her work and her offscreen life -- she was sexually uninhibited in both realms -- would have burnt anyone out, but Clara Bow was emotionally fragile to begin with.
She'd been born unwanted in a Brooklyn tenement and endured a hellish childhood with her mentally ill mother. (When Bow entered a beauty contest, her mother chased her with a butcher knife, vowing to kill her daughter rather than see her "go Hollywood.")
Bow succeeded in Hollywood despite these origins, but they hampered her nonetheless.
from article "The Most Tragic Town" - by Stephen Rebello, Movieline, Nov 2002
And when it comes to acting, Brittany Murphy dropped some interesting names. "Now that I'm older," she said, "I love Carroll Baker's work so very much, Clara Bow and Meryl Streep." Bow is a particularly unusual choice. She was a silent film star, known as "The 'It' Girl," who became as well-known for her dalliances as her movie work.
But then, that may be the reputation Murphy is shooting for -- glamorous, irreverent and unpredictable. ... Meriah Doty, CNN.com, August 15, 2003
She is ornery, over-the-top, and willfully provocative. In the age of blah, she's the kind of tonic the entertainment business needs. It's apt that Rose McGowan hankers to play Clara Bow in a mooted biopic about the tragic '20s star. Bow was a gifted comedienne whose life spiraled into emotional disarray under the burden of being America's first sex symbol.
from interview article: The ascension of Rose McGowan, by Graham Fuller, Interview mag. May, 1999
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.. .. Jolie reprises the role in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life".. playing a cultured, yet spectacularly athletic and attractive British adventurer. The Oscar winner in 2000 as Best Supporting Actress for "Girl, Interrupted" said Lady Croft does not have to be "anti-man" to be a strong woman. "She's very sexual and she's very sensual but she doesn't use it to win," Jolie told Reuters in a recent interview. "She's strong enough. And I think she's very complete as a woman because she's a lady and she's intelligent but she's also able to get dirty and wild. I think she's got a nice combination of most of the women I know." ... [Reuters, July 23, 2003] |
.. .. book: The Cradle of Life : Lara Croft: Tomb Raider game:
Lara
Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness
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at left: Angelina Jolie in her position as Goodwill Ambassador
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