Shirley MacLaine in Postcards from the Edge.
There's a few in this film (it does take place in Hollywood after all  ) but her portrayal of a wholly narcissistic aging Hollywood star is awesome, half Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., and so much like my own mom that I can't help but wonder if she wasn't a ghost writer for Carrie Fisher. (Who claims it's not autobiographical, but I suspect this is out of respect for her mom Debbie Reynolds. So maybe she has met my mom after all?  )
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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