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...jesus, and then there's more...maybe I missed my calling.

I think i am still being moved by this one...modeling myself on this one even. I saw her first in King Kong, but took a my first long, hard look in 1982-3 when I saw her late at night on cable in The Postman Always Rings Twice...
Jessica Lange...


and then there was Meryl Streep...I saw her first in the Woody Allen film Manhattan, and even when I re-watch the movie now (which was just last week) and even though her part was small, she takes my breath away...wow, a real presence she is...

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce