She nearly died at 8 — then became one of Hollywood’s most powerful women

A 99-year-old man was driving. The car was flying. And little Geena Davis stayed quiet, because she’d been taught “don’t make a fuss.” That terror, she later realized, was just the beginning. From a neighbor’s hands on a newspaper route to Hollywood’s brutal age cutoff, her silence nearly swallowed her whole—until she finall… Continues…

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