Rihanna for Garage Magazine (2018 Issue)
What will NY152 say today, I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You’ve got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail. From you.
You’ve Got Mail (1998) dir. Nora Ephron
Katharine Hepburn, 1939, the year she left Hollywood for New York and The Philadelphia Story on Broadway. She’d been labeled box office poison after a series of financially disappointing films. When offered less money by her studio RKO for her next film than she was given for her very first film, she decided to leave and recover her career and reputation by returning to the stage. The Philadelphia Story, which premiered on Broadway 28 March 1939 was of course a big success which led to MGM buying the rights with Hepburn to star. The film of The Philadelphia Story was an even bigger success, and no one questioned Hepburn’s box office appeal ever again.
You don’t see women messing up like that and being human [in films]. I’ve done jobs before where there’ve been interesting parts of the character that have been smoothed and removed in the edit like Botox, and the director says, ‘Yeah, we tested it and [the audience] really don’t like it when she’s not nice.’ Morally objectionable choices seem to be filtered out quite a lot for women. Not for men. For men, it’s quite sexy and cool that they’re craggy and stinking of smoke. But for women, it’s like ‘Oooh, no.’
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