![]() ![]() ![]() “What’s her hobbies? She’s done many things as far as her family, as far as getting into hobbies like interior designing. “Let’s focus on what she’s done since the film came out,” she says. When the conversation turns to Dash’s stance on Black History Month, the BET Awards, and Image Awards, her publicist cuts in. Dee didn’t want people around her very much. I think there would just be far too many people around her. “I’m not a feminist because I like to get my nails done, and I like to go shopping, and I like to stay at home, and I like to take care of my boyfriend-do what he wants me to do, and take care of him.’ I can’t imagine Dionne going to any rallies or protests. I want to work because I want to work.’ You know what I mean?” Dash said. “She would have said something like, ‘I’m not a feminist because I want my boyfriend to buy me a diamond ring, I’m not a feminist because I don’t want to have to work. You know, ‘Daddy give me, Daddy give me.’ So you know, she was so far from a feminist, but of course, she’s saying things like, ‘Don’t call me woman’ She probably heard that from her mother.” “I think she would be a strong woman, but she was so far from a feminist,” Dash said. “Probably a Derringer.”ĭionne would not, Dash went on, care much for feminism. She’d probably even have her personal stylist with clothing coming to her house so she could shop. “She would have everybody still coming to her house and doing things for her. She would be a fashion editor at a big magazine in New York, Dash added, who wore thigh-highs and Mary-Janes, and flouted the laws of the lockdown. Dionne, Dash said, would definitely vote Republican. She was everything.”Īnyway, Dash doesn’t want to get into her politics, but she is down to indulge in imagining Dionne’s-painting, over the course of our 40-minute phone call, a conservative Clueless fanfiction of her character’s life, 25 years down the line. “I thought she was just a spoiled, rich brat but she had a good heart-which is what I loved about her. This one was just-I ripped through it.” She remembers connecting with Dionne instantly. “You know, you read so many scripts,” Dash said. It has been several years since Dash last watched Clueless, but she remembers reading the script clearly. “For the politics questions,” Dash’s publicist says, “we just wanted to stick to just Clueless, so if you want to, just revert everything back to the movie.” ![]() It means no questions about her one-month-and-four-day congressional campaign for California’s 44th district in 2018, run on a baffling platform against something that sounded like income inequality, but she called “Plantation Politics.” It means nothing about her brief stint as a Fox News pundit covering “cultural analysis and commentary,” where she said things like “I’m not here to judge” neo-Nazis and “there shouldn’t be a Black History Month” until there is a “White History Month,” and from which she was eventually suspended for saying Barack Obama “didn’t give a shit” about terrorism. Staying on script apparently means no questions about Dash’s arrest in Florida last fall on charges of domestic battery against her fourth husband, Jeffrey Marty. On a recent Wednesday in Los Angeles, a few weeks before the film’s 25th anniversary, the three of us are on a conference call from our respective quarantines, where Dash’s publicist lays out the parameters. She also spent the past eight years as a conservative commentator, endorsing Mitt Romney’s presidential bid in 2012, and later Donald Trump’s in 2016, before publishing her first book that same year, There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative. Specifically, her publicist at Mayhem Entertainment Public Relations, a PR firm that mostly represents child stars and is currently suspended from Twitter, wants to stay on script, and the script is Clueless, the 1995 mid-budget teen comedy which turns legal car-renting age this July.ĭash, who is 53, played the clothes horse with a cute sneeze, Dionne Marie Davenport, in director Amy Heckerling’s cult classic. ![]()
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