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As a girl growing up in OC, D. Keaton was reading Life magazine and noticed the long shadow between Sophia Loren’s breasts. She later learned the shadow had a name: “cleavage” (124).

“Size 10” is a sweet chapter about fashion (esp footwear or lack there of) and DK’s love of her son Duke. Somehow through the craft of description and collision, this SoCal woman gets my imagination in all ways & just slays me (74).

“Size 10” is a sweet chapter about fashion (esp footwear or lack there of) and DK’s love of her son Duke. Somehow through the craft of description and collision, this SoCal woman gets my imagination in all ways & just slays me (74).

Long list of idioms using “eye”: take the red-eye, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, don’t bat an eye (although “don’t blink an eye” or “in the bat of an eye” work for me$.

“beauty is a bouquet gathered in loss” (63).

“Reading is seeing, too,” writes the woman who won an Oscar (60). On page 9 she wrote that seeing was the gift that keeps giving.

Still life attempt to capture something, literally a moment, and sustain that thing in captivity. Motion photography is moments added and multiplied until they equal scenes, which add up into “Acts,” which are approximations of life.

Keaton’s gallery of men’s commodified faces challenges me to interpret women’s faces. My freshman year of college, working for the campus police escort team, I meditated on what rape implied. The Accused challenged audiences and hearing about childhood friends who had been attacked made the challenge personal (21).

“The Prisoners on My Wall” is interesting in its exceptional: Warren Beatty isn’t on the wall. D Keaton cut out a photo and carried it during the making of Little Drummer Girl—in which she claims she was miscast—, but she lost it. Why does she think that was? Wish fulfillment? Movie magic? (17)