Hey! It's the birthday of Geena Davis! Who doesn't like Geena Davis?
I believe my intro to Davis was as Larry in Fletch. After that, she was justs ort of omnipresent in movies. But I decided she was *great* (post-Oscar win) when I saw Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own within a year of each other.
I didn't see a few of her bigger movies til well after the fact, but I can always say, along with Sigourney Weaver and a few others, if you say "hey, Geena Davis is in it", I'll watch it.
Davis is less in the spotlight these days - the last thing I saw her in was GLOW, where she crushed it as a casino manager and former showgirl. But she's not just doing the acting and producing thing (she's a very successful TV and film producer). She founded the Geena Davis Institute.
I think she's the right person to have started such an org, and their work is important, bringing research and spotlights to issues of "equitable representation in media" (from their website).
Here's to Geena Davis - trailblazing and playing my favorite ballplayer in a movie.
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