Geena Davis once played a meek Arkansas housewife named Thelma who, buffeted by fate and bucked up by her fiesty friend Louise (Susan Sarandon), became a neo-feminist icon. Never mind that at the end of the movie the gals took a Butch and Sundance leap into oblivion; they weren’t about to take any more guff from the bullying male authority figures that had them cornered on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Read More…
She enters, stage right
March 24, 2015
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