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[rm]

Cate Blanchett interview:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/15/film.cateblanchett.ap/index.html

"To have someone walk into court who's literally gone to the edges of the known world. How incredible and expansive must that have been for her, her sense of poetry and the possibility of what life could be," Blanchett said. "It was interesting, I found, to play a vicariousness in the relationship with Raleigh, rather than simply making it, here comes Clive Owen, isn't he handsome?

"Which of course he is, and undeniably charming. But to actually sort of say, 'I'd like to BE him.' I've certainly had those experiences. I was talking today about watching the 'Indiana Jones' films. My experience was as a young girl, and of course, you want to kiss Harrison Ford. But I wanted to BE him. I wanted to BE Indiana Jones and have those adventures."

See, this is great. This is one of those experiences that I think lots of young girls have -- "I want to be the hero" and then we learn that we're supposed to want the kiss the hero too or instead. I think we still don't talk about that enough, this idea that role models can be outside gender and that desire can be outside sex.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

I wasn't turned away from television, but I was taught what it was all about. I also benefited from my parents owning their own business so I developed a business sense and understood the how and why oc tv commercials early on. Also though I loved reading, and my father encouraged this by supplying me with book after book after book. Eventually instead of watching TV I was working on VCRs and working in a TV station.

I realize that as a male of the species I've had some advantage and leverage in this society, but I also would liek to think that I've never held anyone back / put them aside by saying " you're a girl, you can't do that ".

[rm.livejournal.com]

Frank, your excellence and that of many many men I have had the pleasure to know and even more I haven't, regrettably, is not enough to undo the rest of the shit going on out there.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I know it's not. However it is my responsibility to pass on the excellence on in the attempt to make it real. It is also my responsibility to support those who put forward the motions to change things.

I know I can't undo it by myself. I know that maybe 100 of me could not undo it. That's no reason not to fight it. I want to at least say that I made an effort to change it instead of just letting it happen. the result might not come for 100 years, but at least somewhere down the road a person could look back and see what people like you and I have done to make their lives possible.