On Mar 9, 8:28=A0am, Twitchell wrote:
> http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/queen_of_the_world_jb0wP...
>
> She was a starving NYC artist who worked in construction to pay the rent,=
she
> climbs mountains, and she=92s dating a guy 21 years her junior. Meet Kath=
ryn
> Bigelow, the baddest dude in Hollywood.
>
> Kathryn Bigelow sounds less like a director and more like a hero from a 1=
930s
> pulp novel. She has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in freezing temperatures. S=
he once
> went diving in Fiji, lost her weight belt and nearly died. She is an expe=
rt
> rider of horses. She once stopped a bank robbery with nothing more than a=
hard
> stare.
>
> Sorry, no. That last one was probably The Shadow.
>
> But there=92s no denying that Bigelow is Hollywood=92s biggest badass.
>
> Back in the 1970s when Bigelow was a young artist living in New York City=
, she
> made ends meet =97 not by waiting tables or working a cushy retail job, b=
ut by
> doing construction. (Oddly, she toiled alongside composer Philip Glass, w=
hose
> specialty was plumbing.)
>
> =93She was very good with her hands, but everybody had to be in those day=
s or else
> you didn=92t eat,=94 says noted conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, with w=
hom Bigelow
> worked in the 1970s. =93She didn=92t like [construction], but she did it.=
=94
>
> =93She was living rough in places, like all of us were,=94 Weiner says.
>
> =93She lived down by the waterfront [by the South Street Seaport] and on =
Greene
> Street for a while.=94
>
> Even when she became a successful movie director, she never became a diva=
and
> demanded the good life. Conditions on the set of =93The Hurt Locker,=94 f=
ilmed in
> the sweltering desert outside Amman, Jordan, were somewhat grim. And that=
=92s
> being charitable. Temperatures reaching 115 degrees. Sandstorms. Windstor=
ms.
> Flies everywhere. Nobody on-set got an air-conditioned trailer or a priva=
te
> bathroom. Instead, they took breaks in Bedouin tents pitched on the scorc=
hing
> sand.
>
> The hardship paid off. Critics praised =93The Hurt Locker=94 for its rawn=
ess and
> realism, and the movie went on to win big at Sunday=92s Oscars, taking ho=
me
> statues for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director.
>
> And Bigelow=92s achievements don=92t end there. She also snagged an Oscar=
-winning
> boyfriend 21 years her junior. Her current beau is 37-year-old Mark Boal,=
a
> journalist and =93The Hurt Locker=94 screenwriter whom Bigelow first met =
while
> working on the short-lived 2005 cop series =93The Inside.=94
>
> Growing up near San Francisco, Bigelow was a bit of a tomboy. She liked r=
iding
> horses and being outside =97 pastimes she continues to enjoy today. She o=
ften
> spends a couple of hours a day hiking through the hills near her Beverly =
Hills
> mansion, and if you saw the 58-year-old=92s arms on Sunday (yes, she=92s =
58!), you
> can guess she works out religiously.
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