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PAOLO SORRENTINO & ROME
Maestro Aldo Signoretti putting on one of my 3 wigs for my last scene in “Youth.” This film, “Youth,” has been a wonderful and very different experience for me. For those of yo...
THANK YOU, DAVID O. RUSSELL
You know how sometimes the very thing you need the most at a particular moment suddenly appears? It can come in many forms . . . a book, a prayer, a person, a film, a letter, an epiphany. Well, many m...
SNAPSHOTS FROM MY AFI AWARD EVENING
In the ’70s, I’d presented one to Bette Davis at her request and to Barbara Stanwyck. My father had received one. But I never imagined I would be given one. It is a great honor for oneR...
THE YIN AND YANG OF IT ALL
(What this blog is about happened 2 weeks ago. I was going to post it when I left Switzerland but I left my MacBook Pro lap top in my hotel room and only now have returned to Switzerland–Davos t...
MY SPANX GO TO CANNES
The woman in the SPANX t-shirt above is Sara Blakely. She lives in Atlanta and back when I did too, around, say, 1998, we met at a fundraising pajama party that benefited the non-profit I had founded ...
SALLY FIELD’S STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
This morning I went to Hollywood to speak about Sally at the “star” ceremony for her. In the photo above, I was probably saying something nice about my friend and she, as always, was prote...
BACK IN THE NEWSROOM
Yesterday I worked in the second episode of the third season of The Newsroom. Aaron Sorkin wrote another kick-ass scene for Leona Lansing as her media empire is threatened from a new and unexpected ch...
WORKING WITH RUSSELL CROWE
I’ve been in Pittsburgh this week working on a film called “Fathers & Daughters” with Russell Crowe. It’s an intense, moving story about a Pulitzer Prize winning author (R...
LIVING WITH PARKINSON’S
Richard Perry, the man I live with, has Parkinson’s. He’s had it for over 10 years. He told me about it 4 and a half years ago on our first date. I knew it was a disease with no cure but h...