Inside Out (Disney/Pixar Inside Out) (Little Golden Book)

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I wouldn't say I'm some big fan of Demi Moore. I grew up seeing her on-screen, I remember her striking eyes and unique voice. I knew she'd married Bruce Willis and had a few kids, that she went on to marry Ashton Kutcher and the tabloids couldn't get enough of their relationship, and of course I remember her Vanity Fair cover by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz. Demi's brother Morgan was born when she almost five, after which the Guynes' left New Mexico. Demi observes, "Soon after [Morgan] was born we left Roswell for California, the first of a series of moves that would define our childhood. My mother figured out that my dad was having an affair, so she did what she'd been taught to do by HER mother when your husband is fooling around. She got him away from the problem. It did not seem to occur to the women in my family that if you took your cheating husband along when you left the problem came with you wherever you went."

First of all, since I could not have been more than 12 myself, I thought everyone in the film was easily about fifty years old. (I know, I know, foolish youth...karma’s a bitch, though, because here I sit in 2020, exponentially, realistically older, while half the original cast somehow looks the same age as, or even younger than, they did then.) She discusses her relationships, most notably with Bruce Willis, the father of her three daughters, and then Ashton Kutcher. With so much toxicity in today’s world, it’s nice to see Demi and Bruce were, for the most part, able to maintain a strong family unit and co-parent well together after they split.I’ve enjoyed many of the movies that Demi Moore has starred in. I’ve read the tabloid stories and wondered how much of what I read was true. It was nice that the information was coming straight from Demi. Of course, there are always other sides to almost every story. But overall, I didn’t feel like Demi trashed anyone. She just told her truth.

In 2003, Demi revived her career by making Charlie's Angels Full Throttle. While Demi was in New York doing advanced press for the movie she met Ashton Kutcher, and it was kismet!! Demi and Ashton had an instant connection, though she was 15 years older than him. (People made a big deal out of this, but had nothing to say about Bruce Willis marrying a woman 25 years younger than himself. The hypocrisy is stunning!!) Demi and Bruce went on to have a third daughter, Tallulah, but their relationship was suffering. Demi notes "We were disconnected from each other emotionally. Our life was all about logistics surrounding the kids, and while Bruce was always proud of me doing well I don't know that he was always comfortable with the attention that came with it." a b Moore, Demi (September 24, 2019). Inside Out: A Memoir. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-297824-0. All this was too much for Ginny, who - when the family lived in Pennsylvania - tried to kill herself. Demi writes, "I remember using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow out of her mouth while my father held it open and told me what to do." This turned out to be the first of Ginny's many suicide attempts, and Demi remained constantly on the watch, feeling she had to 'help her parents clean up their messes.'

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I know we’ve had some global warming since, but it seems like it’s pretty much always at least 70 degrees and super humid in the DC area (where the film is set and where I now live**), and I’ve definitely left the windows open pretty much year-round in any apartment I’ve ever occupied around here, with absolutely no self-directed malicious intent, so this movie scene remains mystifying to me today. I’m sure that the actual risk being alluded to was something like overdose, and that there were ample veiled 80s cocaine and pill references going on in the film that I missed, being barely over 10 and fully immersed in the Just Say No campaign.)