How Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood 'Off The Cliff'
Becky Aikman's new book is a fierce, funny chronicle of the making of Thelma & Louise — the Hollywood forces arrayed against it, and the effect it had on the industry on both sides of the camera.
by Genevieve Valentine
Jul 02, 2017
3 minutes
"I don't get it. It's two bitches in a car."
It's the least surprising thing in the world that a nameless Hollywood executive had this reaction to Callie Khouri's script for It could be a line from the movie itself — there's no shortage of men with that attitude. (Thelma and Louise pull one of them over and blow up his truck.) It's more surprising that, in a town where million-dollar business is shaped by such opinions, the movie ever got
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