Fame by Justine Bateman

Author:Justine Bateman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2018-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Justine Bateman’s 1987 look . . . saw her reject the floor-length dress code for pieces she could actually wear. Red carpet style doesn’t have to be stuffy or old; it can take risks, provoke conversation, and make challenges—which is exactly what Bateman did. By pairing a nude mini dress with a contrasting cropped jacket, she brought street style to an award show that lacked it. (And still does, if we want to get real, which we always do.)

Thank you, writer Anne T. Donahue. You’re boss. Oh, and the picture of me in that dress has been the identifying photo for the Wikipedia entry for “1980s in Western Fashion” for years. A real honor. Just sorry Mr. Blackwell isn’t alive to see that.

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So back to the tearing open of Why I Let the Gold Dress Episode Go, But Not the Face Disaster. To reject the gold dress criticism meant, bingo, that I would still be in this company, still keeping company with all the other rad women Blackwell had also put down. Now, for me to have rejected the face criticism . . . that meant—oh Christ, this is going to sound bizarre—but to reject that face criticism would have meant rejecting Fame. Now, stay here with me. If my Fame is faded, don’t have much compared with what I used to have, and the mentions I’m getting are mostly toxic, then I have to choose. Toxicity Fame or no Fame. And, you guessed it, I chose the Toxicity Fame. Unconsciously. It was unconscious on my part.

Look, it’s like this. You might have some bad relationship in your life. A parent, a sibling, a friend, maybe even your mate, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, like that. You’ve got this one relationship and it’s bad. You fight, they get under your skin. Jesus, you hate being around them, really. So, you have a choice. You know you do. You can simply not be with them. You can not know them. Leave them, not go home for the holidays, stop inviting them over for parties, you can stop. So ask yourself: Why haven’t you? What’s holding you back?

For most people, it’s usually this: “Because at least I have something with them. IT’S BETTER THAN NOTHING.” It’s better than nothing. See that? That’s what I did. Unconsciously. That’s what I did. I grabbed hold of something toxic because it was better than the nothing I assumed I’d have if I rejected it. Sure, it sounds like, “Oh, Justine, you poor thing. You poor victim of Fame. You poor casualty of Hollywood. You poor thing.” But, it’s really OK. It’s just one of those deep-set, unconscious choices caused by an irrational fear.

Once you expose that kind of fear, it begins to die.

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