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from the Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in the Valley, Gina Gershon learned how to steer through toxicity<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Cat Woods<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gina
In \u201cAlphaPussy,\u201d Gina Gershon\u2019s real-life stories deal with \u201cthemes of manipulation, survival, and moving around and being able to stand on your own two feet.\u201d (Evelyn Freja \/ For The Times)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gina Gershon<\/a>\u00a0considers herself a storyteller, first and foremost. When we connect via video call, Gershon admits this is the first interview she\u2019s done since submitting the manuscript for her latest book, \u201cAlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have my spiel yet!\u201d she warns, inquiring for the first of a few times what I thought of it and whether I enjoyed it. Despite the many decades Gershon has been treading the boards, starring in indie films and Hollywood star vehicles, and stalking the stage as a singer-guitarist, she still really cares about what you think, even if it won\u2019t change her own mind. Perhaps that\u2019s the key to her professional longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlphaPussy\u201d is neither a memoir nor a guide to self-betterment, but elements of both feed into Gershon\u2019s stories. Each wittily titled chapter plunges readers into Gershon\u2019s freewheeling 1970s childhood, defiant adolescence, burgeoning performance career and collaborations with some of the biggest names in film (including Sharon Stone, Paul Verhoeven and Tom Cruise). Most of the stories take place in the San Fernando Valley, where young Gershon was discovering weed, mushrooms and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. This is not a titillating tell-all, and all the better for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from the Los Angeles Times Growing up in the Valley, Gina Gershon learned how to steer through toxicity By\u00a0Cat Woods Gina Gershon\u00a0considers herself a storyteller, first and foremost. When we connect via video call, Gershon admits this is the first interview she\u2019s done since submitting the manuscript for her latest book, \u201cAlphaPussy: How I Survived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14073,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions\/14073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}