Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady of The Jackal Group and Sandbox Entertainment’s Jason Owen also executive produce.
Michael Rauch is the executive producer and showrunner.
#BETH DITTO SERIES#
The series hails from writer Melissa London Hilfers, who will also executive produce. 30 immediately after the NFC Championship game, with the show’s second episode airing on Feb. “Monarch” will debut midseason for Fox on Jan. She is repped by WME and Hard Land Management.
#BETH DITTO MAC#
Ditto has also worked in fashion: she has had two plus-sized luxury clothing lines and a cosmetic deal with Mac and has appeared in shows for Gucci, Marc Jacobs and Gaultier. Her music has gained her multi-platinum status both in her solo career and as the frontwoman of indie rock band Gossip. Her first role on screen was alongside Joaquin Phoenix in Gus Van Sant’s 2018 film “Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot.” There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.Ditto’s recent acting credits include “On Becoming A God in Central Florida,” a Showtime dark comedy series starring Kirsten Dunst and Mel Rodriguez. “Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone.
It’s sexism, the way women who are outspoken about all the real bullshit females deal with in this world either get ignored or made into jokes.”ĭitto makes plain that she’s no ideological dilettante when it comes to feminism. “Let’s get totally real about it and say that it’s not just taste that keeps Gossip ignored by the U.S. She has some very specific ideas about why that is. ”ĭitto and her band are far more popular in the U.K. It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage. The cliché of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character. “My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. Though her weight gives her no small amount of youthful angst, Ditto credits her physicality with birthing her brash performing style. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them? Being in Olympia was like going off to college. “The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn’t have bagels in Arkansas. I was new to the whole punk scene,” she excitedly recalls. It was a normal experience - Uncle Lee Roy had been coming at me that way ever since I could remember, beginning when I was about four years old.”ĭesperate to get out of Arkansas and enamored with the burgeoning Riot Grrrl movement, Ditto and some friends decide to move to Olympia, Washington and change their lives forever, even in simple ways. Every time we were alone, his hands were everywhere. Recreational vices and mistaken identity paled in comparison to some of the darker aspects of Ditto’s childhood.
She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn’t have his blood.” Some dude who didn’t stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. “My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. I fed my habit by slipping Winstons from Aunt Jannie’s pack during our talk-and-television marathons.”ĭitto was under a mistaken impression growing up about whom her actual father was. As she explains, “an old babysitter had taught me to inhale at the tender age of six. These are the most revealing parts:įrom an early age, Ditto’s family provided some, let’s say, lax supervision. At only 153 pages, the book is a brief read, but it’s got its fill of drama. Beth Ditto’s Coal to Diamonds (Spiegel & Grau), out October 9, finds the provocative Gossip frontwoman sharing the details of her journey from poverty and a broken home in small town Arkansas to dance-punk stardom. Finally, the fall’s parade of music memoirs features a title from someone who is not an old white rocker.
0 kommentar(er)
