As we watched, I noticed that in two frames, Belle’s legs are missing. My claim to fame there was this: I had film returned to me from Technicolor for the new release of Beauty and the Beast, and I spliced new scene into the old film for the two directors to approve. And my last year or two was as the coordinator for the camera department. I moved up to assistant to the production manager on Hercules. I started as a production assistant on Hunchback of Notre Dame. I worked for five years at Walt Disney Feature Animation. No, nowhere, and nothing! But if I could do it all again…I’d be…an actress. If you went to college, where and what did you study? My agent at the time recommended that I open up to the option of modeling and print work but I didn’t have any interest. I never met another woman from the rock video world because I was not a model. If you ever met other women who were female leads in a mainstream ‘80s rock video, who? No matter, I’ll be talking about it to anyone who will listen (and still make sense of the words) in the convalescent home. She really loved that video.” Yep…her mom. I was riding pretty high after that, feeling pretty good that even the younger people in the room remembered the video, until…a young, pretty blond girl said, “I can’t wait to tell my mom. I still have a great pride in that video, even these 28 years later (just round it to 20, Marc. one of the girls from my company, Linda, who was next in the interrogation, said loudly, “Seriously, Wish? I’ll handle this: she is Alice from the Tom Petty video.” Every single head turned! All of a sudden there were conversations sprouting and people asking “Oh my god, seriously?” By the time they had finished the uncomfortable introductions, they had the video cued up and played it for everyone in the class. I really hemmed and hawed trying to think of something interesting like…I have four kids? I love the beach? I have two chinchillas? When they got to me I gave a spiel about human resource onboarding and recruiting systems I had consulted on, that I was originally from California… They asked me to tell an interesting thing about myself. In fact, I was in a credentialing class in Omaha and they went around the room and each person (maybe 15 attendees) had to give some info about themselves. The payoff was the short term and long term fame it got me. In fact it is very hard to find on the Internet. What’re you, new? If the music industry didn’t have sex and drugs, they quite possibly wouldn’t have true rock and roll.īy the way, the second video sucked. I don’t think the whole interview made it to the documentary, but after the fact I was surprised that anyone would have been offended by it in any way because it was rock and roll. When they asked about the drug use, my first thought was “Drugs? Huh? What are they talking about?” I guess I was naïve to drugs at the time, though I had dabbled quite a bit, but I never made the connection at the time. It is not a statement video with a hidden message. It is a fantastical, funny, imaginative concept, committed to film. I was too young to articulate what I was thinking at the time, but my thought on violence against women was “It’s just a video!” It doesn’t have any deeper meaning. One of the questions was “How do you feel about the women’s group rallying against the video due to its violence against women?” Another was “Do you think that the fact that Dave Stewart gives you a mushroom in the beginning to start the hallucination was promoting drug use?” While I was in the makeup chair, the crew came in and asked if I would respond to some questions. While filming the video, someone was doing a documentary about the band’s roots in Gainesville, Florida. After the video was released there was a great big uproar about how the video promoted violence against women and the use of drugs.Īfter the Alice in Wonderland video, I was invited to do another video for the song “Forget about me, forget about these eyes”. Did the video generate any controversy that you know of?
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