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Both a former Victoria's Secret model and card-carrying member of MENSA, Geena Davis established herself in Hollywood by playing the quirky protagonist in a wide variety of dramas and romantic comedies, though she has also tested the waters in action films and sci-fi horror. Davis showed an interest in show-business from childhood on, and transferred from New England College to Boston University in order to participate within the university's drama program. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts in 1979, she moved to New York City in hopes of being discovered.
Once there, Davis took on several odd jobs; the oddest, perhaps, being her stint as a department store mannequin. A then struggling actress turned in a job performance impressive enough to attract the attention of Zoli Agents, a prominent modeling company. No longer mere window dressing, the six-foot Davis worked as a lingerie model until making her acting debut in the television sitcom Buffalo Bill (1982); she would later write an episode for the same program. Her resume grew slowly but surely, and it wasn't long before she won a recurring role on the long-running Family Ties (1982-1989) as budding entrepreneur Alex P. Keaton's (Michael J. Fox) maid.
Davis made her first feature-film appearance playing a small role in Tootsie (1982). In 1985, she played the title role in Sara, a short-lived NBC sit-com revolving around a single and fiercely independent lawyer trying to make ends meet in San Francisco. That same year, Davis co-starred with Jeff Goldblum in the vampire spoof Transylvania 6-5000. Goldblum, with whom she would later marry, once again was paired with Davis in director David Cronenberg's cult favorite The Fly (1986). The Fly's success officially put Davis on the map, and she would gain further critical notice for her role as a recently deceased housewife in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. The following year she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist (1988), in which she played an eccentric dog-walker, and reteamed with Jeff Goldblum in 1989's sci-fi musical Earth Girls Are Easy.
Davis received a second Oscar nomination for her part in Ridley Scott's groundbreaking Thelma and Louise (1991), which cast her as an oppressed housewife opposite Hollywood veteran Susan Sarandon. With her film career steadily growing, Davis starred alongside Tom Hanks in the role of a whip-smart baseball ingenue in Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own (1992). She broke away from supporting roles and ensemble films to play the lead role in Martha Coolidge's Angie (1994), which featured Davis in the role of a single mother trying to keep her head above water. She went on to marry director Renny Harlin in 1993, who cast her in 1995's Cutthroat Island as well as the 1996 action-thriller The Long Kiss Good Night. Though playing herself in 2000's The Geena Davis Show proved unfruitful, Davis' role in Rob Minkoff's Stuart Little franchise fared much better. Even still, her most impressive comeback would arrive in the form a role as the President of the United States on the ABC Whitehouse drama Commander in Chief. Davis won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress after the series' first season in 2005 and the show proved to be a major critical success, though it was tragically cancelled the next year, despite vocal protestations by fans.
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Hello, pen pal, magic genie, archiver, JTDIVER. As I've mentioned before my system [loving and using VLC for a thousand years CANNOT bring up really big films so I had to install Potplayer – they are marvelous and so extensively capable with all things movies that there seems nothing they cannot do.] The only fault I find with them is ME – I am woefully lacking both verbally and intellectually to do much with their FREE and brilliant software. All that is to say that when I scan your films to see which I can download I look to size, first – therefore if correct, I guess I missed your previous listing of the Long Kiss Goodnight and so felt you would get a kick out of seeing it. Sorry for confusing you and I hope that clears up the misunderstanding of ME offering to send YOU the film. How funny that now seems to me – that I would have access to a film you DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO – poor me. Hope this clears up part 1 of my confusing you.
As for The Women – I LOVE IT – and watch it once or twice a year – it never gets old to me. Over the years I've had to slow the dialogue down somewhat inasmuch as one can miss so much of the brilliance of the words themselves. I could be wrong but think it was written by Clair Booth Luce and/or 1 or 2 others of her peers. Too, I LOVE sharp-tongued women and the brilliance they throw around like bread crumbs to hungry fish. I've tried watching other representations of this film – and found them wholly lacking – tho' the actors were good, the sharpness was missing. This is why no-one has made another one – The Women is literally [in any universe yet-to-be-found, including ours] simply, THE BEST. I hope this clears up part 2 of my confusing you. Writing this brings tears to my eyes – I cannot believe that you are colorizing my favorite film. I am totally overwhelmed and tears are falling. However and whatever the outcome – is of less import than the kindnesses you have bestowed upon me. Words are insufficient to express my heart's feelings right now.
Re Colorization: Lastly, may I share this with you? Some time back - @ a year or so ago, I found IA had a colorized version of Gilda [my 2nd most valued film.] I researched it but was totally underwhelmed – there was nothing good about what was done to this brilliant film on IA. The perpetrators actually stamped THEIR LOGOS and insignias, which appear on each frame; further, they contrived it such that a viewer is unable to remove their advertising directly opposite to the actual film, dispite all attempts to enlarge the film to NOT be distracted by each frame's advertising of the “colorizers.” I totally chided them that long ago, bringing up their faults in the desecration of this totally-brilliant-in-every-way-film. Their response was that it was required of them to do these things. A year+ went by and I was still distressed about Gilda's ill treatment, then discovered a GREAT IA COLORIZER [George Fergus or a pseudonym.] I totally fell in love watching brilliantly-colorized films I watched as a little kid. Then I watched films of people I have NEVER watched before – for lack of colorization and my lack of knowing anything about these actors. I have converted myself since. I LOVE THESE COLORIZATIONS. They show no evidence of have prior, colorless existences – therefore to me, they are NEW FILMS. That being said I implored the 'Great Colorizer' to colorize Gilda. Meanwhile unbeknownst to me I was actually hungering for and sorry for the beauty that good colorization would give to Gilda. So I went online to try to teach myself how to colorize one film myself – Gilda. All to no avail. I am totally unfit for the project. Meanwhile I researched the badly colorized version on IA and discovered that it had been remastered by UCLA but not colorized. It occurred to me to contact them for a good new colorization. But with one thing and another I got busy and never contacted them. Then just yesterday while looking for some colorized film to watch my eye was caught. There, among all the others was Gilda in brilliant – almost translucent color. SHE HAD BEEN COLORIZED by none other than George Fergus! ! ! ! ! Holy Moly Batman! I was totally overwhelmed and before the possibility of a mistake occurring I downloaded her. OMG I watched it over and over again until I fell asleep and woke late this morning.
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