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| | Geena Davis describes how Bill Murray harassed her on set in 1990 | | Added 797 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Geena Davis released her first book yesterday. That surprised me, I thought she?d published a memoir before. The book is called Dying of Politeness: A Memoir and talks about Geena?s journey from childhood to Hollywood. As you can imagine, shes seen her fair share of misogyny and harassment. Much of the gender inequality is what led her to start The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. She writes about working with Bill Murray in 1990?s Quick Change. Geena was about 34 at the time and Bill was about 40. She said that in their first meeting, which took place in a hotel room, Bill acted creepy with a massager and wouldn?t take no for an answer. Then, on set, he shouted at Geena for being late when she had a perfectly good reason and continued to scream at her in front of everyone as she walked to set.
In her upcoming memoir ?Dying of Politeness,? Geena Davis alleges a toxic experience working with Bill Murray on the 1990 film ?Quick Change.? She accuses Murray of behaving inappropriately toward her during her initial audition and then being overly aggressive with her on set.
The actress elaborated on the experience in a new interview with The Times (UK). The publication offered the following summary of her description of working with Murray in the book: ?She?s introduced to [Murray], she writes, in a hotel suite, where Murray greets her with something called The Thumper, a massage device he insists on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing; later, while they?re filming on location, Murray tracks Davis down in her trailer and begins screaming at her for being late (she?s waiting for her wardrobe), continues to scream at her as she hurries onto the set and even as she gets there, in front of hundreds of cast, crew, curious passers-by.?
?That was bad,? Davis said in the interview. ?The way he behaved at the first meeting? I should have walked out of that or profoundly defended myself, in which case I wouldn?t have got the part. I could have avoided that treatment if I?d known how to react or what to do during the audition. But, you know, I was so non-confrontational that I just didn?t.?
Davis went on to say that she regrets blaming herself, as the consequences for the inappropriate behavior should land on Murray.
?There?s no point in regretting things, and yet, here I was regretting,? she said. ?It wasn?t my fault.?
[From IndieWire via Pajiba]
I mention Geena and Murray?s ages because she wasn?t a child, and he wasn?t that much older. By Quick Change, Geena had been a working actress for a decade and won her Oscar. She was perfectly established but Murray felt he had every right to lord power over her. It cinches my heart to read Geena saying she blamed herself for not managing the behavior. That?s what women were trained to do. If a man?s behavior went off the rails, we were conditioned to look at our part in making that happen. Hopefully that has changed and we are no longer teaching young women to blame themselves.
I was looking for a reason to talk about the film The Greatest Beer Run Ever this week. It is so much better than you think it is, don?t write it off because of what you think the title suggests. But one of the things I wanted to praise was Murray?s performance. And now I don?t, because it doesn?t matter knowing that he behaved this way, and everyone just allowed it because he made them laugh and bought some baseball tickets. What?s worse, his victims like Geena, Lucy Liu, and those folks on Being Mortal were made into the bad guy because they dared to speak out against Mr. Groundhog Day. Beer Run is still a really good movie, and all the performances are good. Murray?s role is small. Follow it is up with A League of Their Own or The Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena and some guys that don?t have bad press.
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| | Kim Kardashian is paying for private security at her kids' school because of Kanye | | Added 797 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Say what you want about Kim Kardashian, but she cares about her kids and she?s a hands-on parent in a traditional sense. As in, the kids go to a private school, she spends money on special tutors for art and music, she spends a lot of time with the kids, etc. Kim and Kanye West share custody, although the kids are primarily with Kim. It was that way when Kim and Kanye were married too Kanye would go off for weeks and months at a time and Kim was the primary parent. Well, Kanye has learned what all abusive men learn when they?re getting a divorce: he can hurt his ex through the kids. He can throw big public tantrums about access to the kids and the kids? education. Well, in the past six weeks or so, Kanye has been focused on how the four Kardashian-West children need to spend half of their time at Kanye?s Donda Academy, his half-assed, cult-like ?school.? Kim has refused. The kids go to a good private school and it would be completely absurd for the kids to spend half the time at Kanye?s dumbfk narcissism school. Well, Kanye?s so mad about it that he announced the name of the kids? private school and now Kim is paying for extra security at the school:
Kim Kardashian isn?t taking any risks when it comes to the safety of her children. The Skims founder recently hired additional security to guard her kids? private school after her ex-husband Kanye West revealed its name in numerous social media rants, TMZ reported.
Kardashian is paying for the additional security, though to be clear it?s not to protect her progeny from their dad; the ?Kardashians? star is concerned that because the Yeezy designer revealed the school?s name anyone can show up and potentially harm the students.
West, 45, has been on a full self-guided press tour ranting about how he would prefer his four kids ? North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3 ? to attend his newly opened Donda Academy, where parents reportedly have to sign NDAs despite the fact that the school has yet to be accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
In early September, the ?All of the Lights? rapper said he and Kardashian, 41, had a ?good conversation? about their kids? education. The ?Heartless? rapper proposed his ?idea? that the children should change their schooling to three days at their current private school and two days at Donda Academy in Simi Valley, Calif. ?This is co-parenting,? West captioned the screenshot of the text message via Instagram.
However, it appears any headway the former pair had made has come to a screeching halt, as West told Tucker Carlson that he isn?t willing to ?compromise? when it comes to education.
?All they do is take all the celebs kids and throw them into this same school,? the rapper said about his kids? current school, claiming that the administration tries to ?indoctrinate them.?
?Right now we?ve come to a compromise ? but I?m not finished because I don?t compromise ? but we?ve come to a compromise that my kids come to my school after school and they learn choir.?
[From Page Six]
Yeah, Kim needs to go to family court and have the lawyers sort this sh-t out. I realize that Kim is trying to keep the peace while also disentangling herself from Kanye, but this has been completely dangerous for a while. Kanye directly targeted Pete Davidson and he would not think twice about targeting the kids to make some kind of point. He already is Kanye is trying to make it too dangerous for HIS CHILDREN to go to school. Kim really needs to involve the family court and the lawyers in this because it?s so bad.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Backgrid.
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