Compensating for chaos
Ashley Judd reveals in a magazine interview [Glamour, August 2006] that earlier this year, she participated in a 47-day treatment program to overcome lifelong emotional problems including depression, isolation and co-dependent relationships.
“I needed help,” Judd says. “I was in so much pain.”
With a “chaotic” and “dysfunctional” childhood, Judd, 38, says she compensated by [...]
In her book Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewski illuminates many of the myths and challenges of being exceptional. Here are some excerpts.
Are only the successful truly gifted?
For too long society has believed that if you aren’t president of General Motors, you aren’t gifted. If the estimates of the researchers are correct, and between 3% and [...]
“He is a relentless perfectionist who never allows a single detail to go by without notice. Jerry Bruckheimer [right] is a consummate filmmaker.. because you know that you are always going to get 120% from Jerry on anything that he does. I don’t think it is any great mystery that he has been so successful: [...]
Darren Aronofsky
A number of exceptionally talented people in the arts get freighted with a kind of unwanted godhood of exaggerated expectations.
The photo is Darren Aronofsky directing Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman in “The Fountain” [which he also wrote].
In his article From Here to Eternity in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly [Nov 17], Daniel Fierman [...]