"From Hollywood ‘Pretty girl’ to Empowered Novelist"
By Lisa Schwarzbaum – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/books/review/susanna-moore-miss-aluminum.html
Article about Susanna Moore
Summary:
In this New York Times article, it speaks on the life of Susanna Moore, at first a novelist, a pretty girl, a model in the 1960’s-70’s-and 80’s. The article talked about her life growing up. Her mother passing away at a young age, and her father not giving a rat’s ass about her, so she moved near the big city to live with her grandmother and hopefully making something out of herself. As the article goes on, she began to audition for shows and modelling careers. She had her first offer to show off jewels, and this is also known as “Miss Aluminum” (1960’s). She was young and fearful at the age of 17 living the model life every young girl dreamt of. She then got a connection in fashion, a designer by the name of Oleg Cassini signed her because of her beauty and long legs. She modeled in NYC on the Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show”. She then later got raped in a hotel room by Oleg Cassini – he took advantage of her and her beauty. He began to sexual assault her, and told her that she can continue her career as a model If she will continue to let him abuse her. Word finally comes out about this issue, and her life story. She took risky sexual choices with not caring about what it might do to her mind. The article states at the end that through the #MeToo lens she became judgement free by the people in society. People saw her as powerful because she wanted to make something of herself. She came, she saw, she took notes, and she left and became one dang good novelist and wrote about her life, and career, and also female autonomy.
Response:
This article was a good read. I did not know about this story until I read all of this article. But to say the lease, I personally believe that females in the glamour and the fame right now are being more abused than others think. They have the power of beauty and males will do anything to take advantage of that and hopefully get inside the women’s brain. The article stated that people after the stories came out, they saw Moore as a powerful woman to do what she wanted to do to make herself known in the world. She was seen as a beautiful woman that people could not take their eyes off of. She realized later that what happened to her was wrong and then she even made herself known by her books. It is hard for women to get abused and feel like they are still powerful, but this is a good example of what could happen if this were you. She stood up for herself and became more powerful than anyone could have ever thought. Ladies, stay strong out there if you are getting taken advantage of. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. And there is such thing called, Karma, and it’s a bitch.
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