i didn’t realize how far we’ve come in how we promote women on the screen, and i also didn’t realize how much media impacts huge life decisions. I often tell the story of how I took my nine-year-old sister to The Accidental Tourist instead of the agreed on Land Before Time and how I wonder of that altered our relationship negatively - I mean, was that too much William Hurt for a young child? i was so long conditioned to think it is shameful to be seen and heard, to think it was impolite to sorta, exist?

Bill Murray has often been seen as an affable guy, but there have been more than a handful of allegations against him over the years. What Davis cherishes most comes across as — throwaway anecdotal one might queue up for late-night talk show fodder (the kind frequently co-authored w publicists or by studio press agents), while promoting their latest blockbuster release.

Don’t let your legacy — first NYC location-filming, or collaborating with Jason Robards, or Tony Shalhoub — be another nominal entry in the Bill-Murray-❤️s-Hating-Women scroll. Fortunately, it was a scene where I didn’t have any lines, because I couldn’t have gotten them out anyway. Any director of worth (à la Christopher Nolan, notorious for starting each shooting day at 7:30am), much less familiar, knows just how critical that first shot can be for the rest of your shooting schedule. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. While lacking any salacious content, Davis regales us with really tidbits of how projects really came together in Hollywood.

how could she possibly have sat there expressing opinions that didn't start with, "this is probably a stupid idea" or "i don't know what you'll think but"? I’ve been a fan of her since I saw her in movies like Beetlejuice and Thelma and Louise, and then she was in A League of their Own which is one of my all time favorite movies. I didn’t remember this, but somebody sent me a Première magazine cover…We look like we're having the most fun, and it's hard to remember what I thought while I was doing those things. Little, so that was an easy acknowledgment, though her true wit outshines what is often written for her in scripts.I had never spent any time around a woman who moves through the world like that, where she feels very comfortable saying what she thinks, what she wants and also seeing that nobody’s reacting.

Audiobook, as narrated by the author: I mean, clearly Davis was going to read her own memoir…she’s fabulous. Told in a charming and freewheeling style (I like to think it’s how she’d talk if you sat down with her for a chat), she covers everything (her films, her archery, her marriages, her friends) and doesn’t spare the blushes, especially thorough on aspects of her career where men preyed on her.Vanity Fair: The title really encompasses your personality throughout the book and the way you tried to placate other people’s emotions over the years. I found this long pole for hiking, and it would bounce if you put it on the ground, and I couldn’t move forward unless it was bouncing correctly. I’ve said this in other reviews but I don’t listen to celebrity memoirs because I care about your craft-tell me more stories about your donkey.

She has definitely traversed through a few decades of a colourful life filled with rich life experiences. 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. And unlike some celebrity tell-all memoirs, Davis is circumspect with assigning guilt or blame for the failure of relationships or projects. Unlike some actor's memoirs, Davis mentions both parents throughout the book with genuine love, kindness and respect. I’d also like to take a moment to apologize to Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon and women everywhere-I’ve never watched Thelma and Louise, something that I now deeply regret.

Overall, this book is decent but leaves the reader wanting more and have a less idolized view of this Hollywood star. I’m constantly dropping things or tripping, eating Skittles compulsively, and you don’t realize until the end why I’m like that—and then you find out.