As a young teenager I was a big fan of Winona Ryder. She was the greatest.
Almost everyone in my small circle of friends was hypnotised by articles about
her, and I think I saw every major movie she was in the early 1990 some of them
in the theaters. I remember an issue of seventeen with with her on the cover.
She has fame, fortune, and Johnny, it said. Who didn't want that?
I guess lately her stars have changed but I still really like her. I know maybe her
downfall was her own fault what with shop lifting and all. Still didn't Johnny Depp
destroy hotel room and go on to be fine. I keep hoping
she will show up to my Buddhist center to meditate. I mean stranger things have
happened.
Anyway, so my Edward Scissorhand cravings were a little satisfied last Sunday night
when my roommate and I turned on the TV, and saw Winona featured on the Lois
Wilson Story. Lois Wilson, the wife of the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Married to
Bill W. in the 1920s she enjoyed a nice art deco existence in Brooklyn and Upper
Manhattan in the boom years of the 1920s, where her stock broker husband encouraged
people to to invest on a margin. Everything a middle class girl from the beginning of the
century could want seemed to be in her reach.
Then the stockmarket crashed, Lois had a couple of miscarriages that ended in a hysterectomy,
and Bill W. wouldn't stop drinking. Left out is the fact that Bill W. was a huge womanizer, the
Wilson's were really into new age and the occult ( being fond of seances and Ouija boards)
Is this the best way for an iconic actress from the mid nineties to relaunch her career? Or does she
want to relaunch anything? It seems a bit off. It seems like Winona has now firmly moved from
some who's presence on the marquee was reason enough to see a movie, to a working actress
who is just taking on work to keep membership in actor's equity. But then again maybe that isn't
a bad place to start from. I guess Winona has been sort of assigned to mailroom and needs to work
her way up again. Which seems unfair. Maybe that's the point.
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