This month, we got a new member at the message board; Roger from Sweden. He’d suddenly realized that one of the two American girls in his girlfriend’s class back in 73-74 was Geena, and has provided us with a few memories and a photo taken back then. Go check out the gallery and the message boards! :)

Nearing up to the return of Commander in Chief now! ABC recently released the following info: CinC will make its return to the schedule Thursday, April 13, and will air at 10 p.m. ET Thursdays for the remainder of the season.

CNN quotes courtesy of Page Rockwell for saloon.com

Geena Davis went on CNN Wednesday to promote See Jane. Although the host seemed more interested in talking about Geena’s “amazing husband” (read the saloon.com article for details, hilariously written by Rockwell), there were some to-the-point sentences worth quoting. Geena says:

“Mitigating talk, they have found, is as effective as if you’d never seen the negative media. For example, violence on television. If you talk to your kids about it, have intelligent discussions about it, it has the same impact as if they hadn’t seen the violent images. It’s the same with gender inequity; we’re not in any way recommending that you throw away a movie that doesn’t have any female characters but is otherwise a great film. But when you watch it with your kids, notice – help them notice, boys and girls. It’s really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet – which we do. Actually, roughly, it’s slightly more, but I never want to quibble about that 1 or 2 percent; I’m willing to let that slide.”

As mentioned March 3rd, Geena is the main attraction of the Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum, May 4. Here are some details, including how to obtain tickets if you are lucky to be living nearby.

The Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum will feature Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis. The event will be held at 8 p.m., Thursday, May 4 in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

Versatile actress, activist, archer, movie producer, mother and member of Mensa, Davis is the essence of a modern Renaissance woman. She has starred in 17 movies, including “Tootsie” with Dustin Hoffman, “Thelma and Louise” with Susan Sarandon, “A League of Their Own” with Tom Hanks, the “Stuart Little” series, and “The Accidental Tourist” with Kathleen Turner and William Hurt – for which she won an Oscar for best supporting actress.

Distressed with the lack of good role models for young girls on television and in movies, Davis recently founded See Jane, an organization dedicated to the promotion of gender equity in television and movie programming for children – in partnership with the nonprofit group Dads and Daughters.

Tickets to MCC’s Celebrity Forum are $65 for premier seating, with other seats available at $35, and $20 for students and seniors (60 and older). They can be purchased at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium box office, 50 E. Merrimack St. in Lowell, and by callling Ticketmaster in Massachusetts (617-931-2000) and New Hampshire (603-868-7300) or online at ticketmaster.com (service charges apply).

In this article, television critic Dusty Saunders of the Rocky Mountain News analyses the future of Commander in Chief

My e-mail and voice mail have been clogged with questions regarding the status of our nation’s first female president.

I’m speaking, of course, in fictional terms.

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Story by Kate Coyne, for Good Housekeeping, March 2006 issue

My friend Jen has provided me with scans of the article found in the March issue of Good Housekeeping; some of the scans are added to the gallery – below you cand find a transcript of the article!

She’s got a hunky younger husband, thee small kids, and a hit TV show. How the star of Commander in Chief turned her life around.

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Original article by Karl Heitmueller for mtv.com

In celebration of the new Spike Lee film The Inside Man (Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster), MTV.com Movies has put together a list of top 10 bank robbery films. Runner up is Quick Change, with the following elaboration:

Bill Murray co-directs (with Howard Franklin) and stars in this black comedy that’s gradually been gaining cult status. Murray plays Grimm (just “Grimm”), a fed-up New Yorker who enlists the aid of his girlfriend Phyllis (Geena Davis) and high-strung pal Loomis (Randy Quaid) to pull off a clever bank job involving a clown suit, the threat of vomit and a monster truck. Getting away with the cash proves to be far, far easier than getting out of New York, however, as the fleeing trio encounter a stream of urban nightmares. Ostensibly “The Out-of-Towners” as crooks, this funny charmer is also a nice visual time capsule of NYC on the eve of its Disneyfication.

On top of the list is Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Pacino): “Not putting “Dog Day Afternoon” at the top of a list of bank heist flicks is like not putting “Citizen Kane” at the top of a list of movies about power-mad newspaper magnates..”

See the complete list here

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