Consumer advocate Erin Brockovich talked about the logic of following your gut, the importance of stillness, and showing up authentic at The Channel Company's At Women Of The Channel events.
Cleaning up the cancer-linked chemicals that contaminate American waterways may hinge upon the grit of small-town mothers, according to the stiletto-strutting single mom whose legal and environmental crusade became a Hollywood blockbuster more than two decades ago.
Cleaning up the cancer-linked chemicals that contaminate American waterways may hinge upon the grit of small-town mothers, according to the stiletto-strutting single mom whose legal and environmental crusade became a Hollywood blockbuster more than two decades ago.
"Erin Brockovich" is "Silkwood" (Meryl Streep fighting nuclear wastes) crossed with "A Civil Action" (John Travolta against pollution) plus Julia Roberts in a plunging neckline. Roberts plays a real-life heroine who helped uncover one of the biggest environmental crimes in history. But her performance upstages the story; this is always Roberts, not Brockovich, and unwise wardrobe decisions position her character somewhere between a caricature and a distraction.