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Good-Bye To All That- What Does the Age of #MeToo Have To Do With The People Living Hand To Mouth?

 When the #MeToo movement started I was glad to see it; to see accountability for so much bad and abusive behavior. But did it go far enough? To me it seems it stalled before it made any real changes. I mean I'm sorry-somewhat for Hollywood actresses whose careers stalled because they ran afoul of uber creep and abuser Harvey Weinstein but what about women outside of Hollywood? What about women who live pay check to pay check and don't work in glamorous jobs? I don't want to negate the feelings and experiences of women who work in the entertainment business because hey trauma is trauma and they worked to build up careers that were struck down by the Weinstein brothers. But couldn't these women still have had careers in up and coming directors films for less money? Could they have become acting coaches or produced their own films? I don't know. My sympathies lie with middle-class, working-class and and working poor women and men. In 1997 I worked as the Assistant Man...

The Happy and Sad Life of Jean Seberg

                    The Happy and Sad Life of Jean Seberg What happened to Jean Seberg? At one point she was on top of the world, the darling of The French New Wave, the cutting-edge cinema of the 1960s and a glamorous beckoning pixie. And later on in her short life she descended into an overwhelming despair that didn't leave her. Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in November 1938 in idyllic Marshalltown Iowa. Her father was the town pharmacist and owned a drug store on the main street eponymously named "Seberg's." Her father Edward Voldemar Seberg, was very conscientious and would open up his store in the middle of the night if need be to get a prescription for a sick member of the community. She was the second of four children and her mother Dorothy Seberg was a homemaker. Jean had a penchant for bringing home stray animals, "but they followed me home?" She grew up in the Lutheran Church. She loved high school dramatics...