gena

I was a latchkey lad in the 80s who al­ways want­ed to know about more adult stuff than his age. 

We had the cheap­est pre­mi­um ca­ble chan­nel The Movie Chan­nel and Glo­ria (1980) was on quite frequently. 

So I’m five years old watch­ing Gena Row­lands in a Cas­savettes flick like it’s the most nor­mal thing in the world for a kinder­gart­ner to do. 

I don’t think I “got” it all ini­tial­ly, but I was so pre­co­cious that I didn’t care. I would stick with it and watch it again and again un­til I did. 

And for that rea­son to me, Gena Row­lands was as big a Star as Miss Pig­gy (again, I was five). 

Even­tu­al­ly I would see all her clas­sic oth­er work with Cas­savettes and oth­ers. To­tal icon and ab­solute leg­end. RIP.

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2024 Ja­son Malmberg.

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