I was very shy, but was desperate to meet boys. so my sister told me to be a cheeerleader. I didn't make cheerleading squad, so I thought, 'Why not try out for a play?' As soon as I did I found out I absolutely loved it. I could cry and scream and laugh, but in a controlled environment.
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Attended Northern Illinois University from 1976 through 1978.
Sharp-witted Terry Wolfmeyer, a suburban wife and mother, has her life take an unusual turn when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Struggling to deal with his sudden absence, Terry finds herself increasingly at odds with her four headstrong daughters and regularly drowning her anger in alcohol, until she develops an offbeat relationship with her next-door neighbor, Denny. A once-great baseball star turned radio DJ, Denny becomes a drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, as well as an ad-hoc father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Terry’s daughters grow accustomed to having Denny around while attempting to juggle not only their mother’s romantic dilemmas, but their own.
YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.
After the Chinese vice-premier is brutally murdered, the killer leaves the calling card of Jason Bourne. The CIA knows that Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is in fact innocent of the crime. Now, Agent David Webb must step back into the shoes of Bourne to catch the impostor and to save the woman he loves.
An older man, on hospital visits to an invalid older woman, reads aloud to her from a notebook chronicling a romance involving two men pursuing the same young woman. Eventually, it's revealed that the man is reading to his Alzheimer-afflicted wife who is the young woman in the stories. The notebooks are a chronicle of their love affair and it gradually becomes clear which of the two men is now her husband.
It's 1974 and the harshly beautiful wilds of Taos are home to 11-year-old Bo Groden (Valentina de Angelis) and her free-thinking family. While constantly yearning for escape from her sparse environment, Bo passes the time with flair and imagination. She's a crack shot with a rifle and a bow and arrow, an artful plunderer of wallets and briefcases, and the compelling mistress of ceremonies for a moonlit three-ring circus of her own invention. Bo's home is an entrancing, challenging place that she will one day transcend to become the woman she was destined to be. Arlene (Joan Allen), Bo's warm, earthy, and eccentric mother, raises most of the family's food in her vegetable garden -- which she prefers to tend in the nude. Meanwhile, Bo's father, Charley (Sam Elliott), the embodiment of Old West masculinity, is losing the battle with his inner demons. When William Gibbs (Jim True-Frost) arrives, a hapless IRS agent with demons of his own, he soon proves to be a catalyst in the lives of the family during this watershed summer.
FBI agent obsessed with the murder of his son trades faces with the boy's killer. High-style, large-caliber action from the master, John Woo, who keeps a thoroughly insane story on an even keel almost till the end. A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization.
