That was not the goal at all.
And I dont think either of us thought that was a possibility.
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Not every celebrity story is interesting, White observes.
I do wonder if well see more of that over the coming years.
Imagine also producedJudy Blume Forever, directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok.
Last year, Utah passed the Sensitive Materials in School Act, which also prompted the banning ofForever.
We thought book banning was a relic of the 80s culture wars.
And then all of a sudden, the world sort of fell apart.
The way Judy describes it now, its worse than it was in the 80s.
And now its politicians, its leaders of government.
In her first major movie role, Shields played a child prostitute in Louis Malles 1978 dramaPretty Baby.
When she shot the film, she was 11.
The purloined footage wound up on computer screens across the globe.
I think shes a person thats been dismissed over and over…
In a lot of ways, Pamela has been reduced to that stolen tape, White says.
At least her public persona, it defined that.
His documentary gives space for the private Pamela to emerge, revealing a free-spirited personality, self-aware and intelligent.
I still have trouble keeping up with Pamela.
Her brain, her synapses fire in a really interesting way.
Shes hilarious, White says.
The massive response [to the film] is she is so likable.
More than likable, shes so lovable.
I dont want to make a one-or two-interview film.
I want to be all up in your business, he says.
People are starting to really understand who Michael J.
Fox is as a human being, Guggenheim says with admiration.
And I wanted a new voice to tell Marys story.
BetweenBeing Mary Tyler Moore,Still: A Michael J.
All of them harken back to something that meant a lot to people in the past, White says.
Maybe that is escapism.
Maybe the nostalgia is a way of escaping our present day lives to return to the past.
