The Return of Gillian Anderson
X-Files fans who may have been wondering whatever happened to Gillian Anderson will be glad to know she's been happily living in London - and returns to American television this Sunday.Anderson stars as Lady Deadlock in the acclaimed BBC / Masterpiece Theatre mini-series production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, which airs in six installments on PBS starting Sunday. She was recently interviewed by the AP...
"I respond very strongly to characters I have not done before... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go," says Anderson. "I'm just always looking for stuff to change people's minds about me."
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Hollywood's Backroom, (like a ,seemingly fancy, homeless-hotel for the famous..).
I'm confident that most are aware today--unlike the 30s and 40s--that Hollywood is a brutally hardball multi-billion dollar business. As you know, most are aware that the glitz and seeming glamour of it is just the lavish icing on top of this inedible cake and just a part of doing business. And, "uh, that's cool, that's cool, man."
I was doing business research and inadvertently pulled up this site. I decided to endulge in some escapism for brain rest and send this note into cyber-space.
As a fine art commodity oil painter I was working 15 hr, 6 day weeks in the year 2002 and glimpsed X-files. The female role was believable, interesting and had an innocent, survival something that showed through the camera. Mostly, because of what I do, it got my attention. Mostly.
They say that an artist/actor is only as free/protected/financially independent as:
* their last bank balance.
* their self control to: regard all flattery as a net for their feet and avoid the temptations at the Hollywood table of delicacies.
* their insight to maintain a bohemian-artist lifestyle after initial and long-term success.
* their courage and faith (in a savings-bohemian-artist lifestyle) after initial success to 'say no' to projects that pervert their art and move to a plan B for producing their works.
* their agent and publicist, who had better have an honorary Phd in sociology, philosophy, business, and psychology of film (also see alfred hitchcock documentary.)
* their standing within the hollywood rampant nepotism--old money/power.
* their political pull, or luck, in getting themselves put into the 'A-list job pool' cash-cow projects, which are based on financially conscious scripts dependent on demographic studies.
* their ability to take orders and not challenge the powerful corporate department heads.
* their luck in not getting squashed in a power struggle between two or more corp. dept. heads.
* their insight to liquidate an unrealistic wonderland lifestyle and prepare for a long financial drought in a plan B (ASAP) when necessary.
* their faith and courage to stop, rest, ponder for regrouping and refuse any crap scripts or projects that threaten their reputation ("worth more than treasures") or integrity when in a compromising position.
* their ability to: endure in a no-shame, profitable lifestyle--not bitterness/hate--should the worst befall.
*their ability to: have the mental toughness to remember: few are they who do battle with a bear without devolping an irreversible P.T.S.D. That is something, not nothing.
Of course, like most, I dislike bullies, but can a bear be considered a bully on his own turf? The corporation of Hollywood is one of the most powerful entities in the world and like police, 'they don't carry the power for no reason.' Artists and corporations have been and always will be at odds. Artists, wake up! The corporate Hollywood entity is a worthy opponent. Friendly advice and warning: should an artist/actor intentionally or inadvertently request a fight with it, the artist will lose. However, this is a moot point. Like "The Big Lebowski," who is a pacifist, the all-powerful muse uses 'produced' works to win the battle. Peace out..never give up.. I'm totally cereal!
God help the artist/actor that makes the mistake of Rembrandt Von Ryan (see art history, 1600s Amsterdam) and finds themselves unable to feed the meter, when the first/hungriest street-predator comes roaring up, and doesn't have another/friend/artist to help left them up!!!
signed, biglebowskiness@yahoo.com
commodity master painter connoisseur
recommended film; tomorrow (with Robert Duvall)--music; Cowboy Junkies--tv: Discovery Channel--quote; "we are surrounded on every side, beaten and struck down to the ground but we are never out."
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