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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Stuart Little (1999) and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2005, Davis won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief. In 2014, she returned to television portraying Dr. Nicole Herman in Grey's Anatomy. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress along with her co-star Susan Sarandon for Thelma and Louise.
Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts. Her mother, Lucille (née Cook; June 19, 1919 – November 15, 2001), was a teacher's assistant, and her father, William F. Davis (November 7, 1913 – April 2, 2009), was a civil engineer and church deacon; her parents were both from small towns in Vermont. She has a brother named Danforth ("Dan"). At an early age, she became interested in music. She learned piano and flute and played organ well enough as a teenager to serve as an organist at her Congregationalist church in Wareham. Davis attended Wareham High School and was an exchange student in Sandviken, Sweden, becoming fluent in Swedish. Enrolling at New England College, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Boston University in 1979. Davis is a member of Mensa, a social organization whose members are in the top 2% of intelligence. Following her education, Davis served as a window mannequin for Ann Taylor until signing with New York's Zoli modeling agency.
Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn; March 10, 1984) is an American actress, model, producer and activist. She is well known for her television role as Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on House (2007–12) and her roles in Tron: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Her (2013), Drinking Buddies (2013), and Rush (2013). She has a role in HBO's upcoming rock 'n' roll drama, Vinyl (2016).
Wilde was born in New York City. Her mother, Leslie Cockburn (née Leslie Corkill Redlich), is an American-born 60 Minutes producer and journalist. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is also a journalist. He was born in London, to English parents, and was raised in Ireland. Wilde's uncles, Alexander and Patrick Cockburn, also worked as journalists. Her older sister, Chloe Cockburn, is a civil rights attorney in New York. Her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer; her half-cousin, Stephanie Flanders, is a journalist; and her paternal grandfather, Claud Cockburn, was a novelist and journalist.
Wilde's paternal English ancestors were upper-class and lived in several places at the height of the British Empire, including Peking (where her paternal grandfather was born), Calcutta, Bombay, Cairo, and Tasmania; one of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was Governor of Hong Kong. Her other paternal ancestors include abolitionist and Anglican minister James Ramsay; politician George Arbuthnot; lawyer, judge, and literary figure Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn; Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir William Arbuthnot; and Sir Thomas Osborne. Her ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Manx, and Scottish; she is also of 1/64th Sephardi Jewish descent through Ralph Bernal (1783–1854), a British Whig politician and actor.
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Academy Award nominations in acting categories, and received three further Academy Award nominations, winning one, as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (both 1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club (1999) and the major international hit Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), and World War Z (2013). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). He produced The Departed (2006) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also The Tree of Life, Moneyball, and The Big Short (2015), all of which garnered Best Picture nominations.
Activist and actress Geena Davis is in studio to talk about her film festival, The Bentonville Film Festival! Plus, Kristen and AJ try to find out just how well she remembers her lines! Don't forget to tweet along with the show to be part of the conversation @OfficialHTL and check out awesome behind the scenes pictures on Instagram @HollywoodTodayLive www.HollywoodTodayLive.com
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Did you know: For every 1 female character in kids' films and TV programs, there are 3 male characters? Only 11% of family films feature girls in roughly half of all speaking parts? Join us for a lively conversation with the CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, an organization changing this reality. Armed with compelling research and data, Ms. Di Nonno and Geena Davis have been making waves in Hollywood, and seeing positive impact from their work. Have questions? Want to learn more? Join us live next week! About Madeline Di Nonno: Madeline Di Nonno is the CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the only research based non-profit working with the entertainment and media community to improve gender diversity in children's entertainment through research based...
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Twenty-five years after the release of Thelma & Louise, stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis reunited to discuss the 1991 film’s legacy and influence on pop culture. Want to see more EW videos? Subscribe to our channel! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ew For more EW video visit: http://www.ew.com/ Visit our youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/ew Follow @EW on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EW Find EW on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/entertainmentweekly Subscribe to ►► http://po.st/SubscribeEW EW News Flash brings you breaking news and exclusive stories from the world of entertainment. We’re always on the pulse with the latest updates in music, TV, movie and celebrity news, and full of behind-the-scenes coverage from A-List events and first looks at th...
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is a research-based organization that works within the media and entertainment to facilitate and push conversation about the need for a gender balance, reducing stereotypes, and presenting women role models. FIlmed by: Kiara Zapanta Co-Editor: Valerie De La Rosa
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A spaceship with three furry aliens lands in a California girl's swimming pool, so she makes friends with them. Director: Julien Temple Writers: Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey, 1 more credit » Stars: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey
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The Exorcist TV series star Geena Davis and writer Jeremy Slater discuss the series, the film and book, and the world in which the Fox series is set. The interview took place at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. -Check out http://www.showbizjunkies.com -Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/becmur -Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ShowbizJunkies -Add us on Google+ at http://plus.google.com/+RebeccaMurrays
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Geena Davis (CFA'79, Hon.'99), the Oscar- and Golden Globe-lauded actress whose roles include half of the feminist anthem Thelma and Louise and the first woman president in the TV series Commander in Chief, recently returned to BU to discuss her career and gender work. The former Claflin Hall resident spoke to a full auditorium about gender roles, tying into her work with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, an organization that advocates for more portrayals and fewer stereotypes of females in children's media. When not acting or working on behalf of her institute, Davis lobbies publicly on behalf of women's school sports and the federal Title IX program supporting them. Davis won her Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1988's The Accidental Tourist and was nomin...
On October 13th, 2011 we welcomed Geena Davis and Abigail Disney in honor of our Living Peace Series, who spoke on their experience making the documentary Women, War, & Peace. The Living Peace Series are presented in partnership with Center for Living Peace and the University of California, Irvine. The series presents conversations with International leaders committed to making the world a more healthy, sustainable and compassionate place. For more information on these events, visit www.livingpeace.uci.edu.
Andy: Hello.
David: Yeah, is Andy there?
Andy: Uh... this is he.
David: This is David Crowder calling for the interview that was scheduled today?
Andy: Oh. Yeah. Great. Um, sorry... I didn't expect you so soon. Let me... give me a second to get things set up here.
David: No problem.
Andy: Yeah. Made a few changes around here and my typical setup is kinda, you know, technology's a killer right?
David: Uh... well... we'll have to wait and see, I guess.
Andy: Well. All right. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, let's get started. Uh... sorry my notes are... you know a little scattered here... uh... you'll have to forgive me.
David: Mhm.
Andy: Uhmm... I gotta admit I... I really don't know much about... you know... you... you, or the band... but I've got some friends that are big fans and um...
David: Right.
Andy: but... uh... anyway... um... alright. Well. Ok. So here we go. Um... so your new CD is titled a collision, or... um...3 + 4 = 7 that's... that's interesting. You know the... the...
David: mmhmm.
Andy: ...whole double title thing.
David: yeah.
Andy: uhmm lets see... uh... and the atom on the cover that's pretty
David: uh huh.
Andy: cool. I was... I mean... I was never all that great in science and. and math wasn't really my... my specialty... which is... which is I guess, you know, why I'm a writer now. But uh...
David: mmhmm.
Andy: ...anyway um...
David: ok.
Andy: ok. So uh... it... I don't know... is that... it's like with the cover... is that a metaphor or... uh... I mean is it metaphorical for something or like, or is it...
David: well...
Andy: ...just pretty or...
David: ...nah. Well I mean. Yeah. The... uh... atom, it's not really... I mean it's a symbol. You see that and you think atom. It shows electrons moving in elliptical paths around a nucleus and all... we know...
Andy: mmhmm.
David: ...that's... that's not how an atom works. Or... or looks even, for that matter...
Andy: ok.
David: ...and so... and so that's why it was appropriate for the cover, you know...
Andy: right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really sure I see the connection. But...
David: ...well... and what we mean to say is that the elements of worship are inadequate, much like the atom depiction. But this is what we have you know? It helps us carry the idea.
Andy: mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh. Tell... ok... what's the deal with these little songs between the real... you know, the real songs? Like are they significant? Uhmm... is there like a theme of the album? Or are they creating space? Like what's... going on there?
David: uhmm. I don't...
Andy: ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear there's this really spectacular ending to... to the record is that true?
David: we'll have to wait and see on that.
Andy: swell.
David: it does swell.
Andy: wait... uh it... wait... hold on... it does well?
David: no. It swells.
Andy: oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well. And so the end starts with this... this piece called “the lark ascending.” Uhmm now what is... what is the lark? Is that... is that also a metaphor for something?
David: uhmm. I gue... I mean I guess. I just... I don't think... I don't think you should read too much into any of this you know? Its... I mean the lark ascending was written... it was a piece written by Vaughn Williams who died in 1958, and uh, the work opens with this calm set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry. Excuse me. And uhmm. Anyway and so then the violin enters as the lark and it... it starts with this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this... these nimble then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm. And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English poet George Meredith who died in 1909 and the composer included a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...
Andy: wait uh...
David: ...of the published work
Andy: ...hold on wait...
David: ...uhmm...
Andy: ...why do you keep mentioning...
David: ...and it...
Andy: ...the year they died?
David: ...well it went... and it went like this it says uh...
“He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills,
‘Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup
And he the wine which overflows
To lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings.”
Andy: huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean... but who is the lark?
David: I don't know.
Andy: sorry. I think i've got the wrong page. Uhmm. The script you gave me says something different. It says, “you are.”
David: yeah but I don't... I don't feel like the lark much of the time and uhmm there are other larks for me you know?
Andy: wait a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...
David: yeah.
Andy: ...in the script I have you're...
David: right.
Andy: ...making a point that art does this...
David: right.
Andy: ...you know the whole, “it rises on wing from earth to fill the heavens...
David: yes.
Andy: ...pulling the rest of us with it. That as the lark rises so do we.”
David: right. I'm unsure.
Andy: but. Uh. Hold on. I mean... it... it says so right here.
David: yeah. Uhmm. But the ground pulls at my feet.
Andy: hold... hold on just a second. Uh but I mean what about the number 7?
David: did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the ground?
Andy: wait. Hold on. What?