Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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I’ve been collecting notes for at least 10 years about the things that I might want to mention in a book,” Davis tells Vanity Fair over Zoom from her couch in Los Angeles. A lot of books start with the "I am born" to early twenties, and that can be dull, but her family is interesting and fun to read about. But I couldn’t move forward unless I found sticks that were shaped like a “y,” so it would mean “yes, it’s okay to move forward.

The parts where people thought that I wasn’t pretty enough were the kinds of roles that I wouldn’t have wanted to play in hindsight because they were the girlfriend of the person who’s doing all the fun stuff, and your job was to be really pretty. Like if I were an adult around the time they were married I would’ve tried to get in the middle of that cause they’re both babes. And unlike some celebrity tell-all memoirs, Davis is circumspect with assigning guilt or blame for the failure of relationships or projects.I actually would have liked to hear more about the background of some movies and TV shows that didn't get much mention here, and less about her romantic relationships, but that's me.

In other words, it was all just bit she couldn’t reflect the humor in: Murray exploiting the screaming, megalomaniac-director -trope, in full clown wardrobe …at her expense. She is frank about her eccentric childhood; her many relationships, including her spontaneous Las Vegas wedding to Jeff Goldblum; her archery exploits which led her to the Olympic trials; and how she became a tireless advocate for women and girls, founding her own institute which engages film and TV creators to better represent women and actors from diverse backgrounds. Though Davis wanted to go into film acting since she was three years old, but since she knew nothing about the industry, she made some, um, interesting choices going about it. It caused a lot of shame in me that that happened because I didn’t know what he was doing when he was touching me in that way. I liked this, but didn't love it for some reason- it was full of intimate information but somehow never felt intimate.most notably, stars as lead thelma, in thelma and louise—partly thanks to her, we have that beautiful scene of brad pitt shirtless (one of his first acting roles, if not his first).