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...fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply...
...their wan complexions and sex lives, and they skip back to the windy city with the idea that they should give up the disciplinary rat race and buy a bar down in the Keys with some money that Danny has recently come into thanks to a dearly departed aunt. They give their notice and they've got thirty days to go before a lifetime...
Scalia, a father of nine ("He always said he was going to have a baseball team," confides his aunt), has a deeply developed philosophy based on the principles of strict separation of powers and a disdain for far-reaching federal remedies for social problems. He has a peppery prose style and an acid pen: he once called the Freedom of Information Act "the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored." In a caustic critique of affirmative action, he facetiously proposed a system he dubbed "R.J.H.S.--the Restorative Justice Handicapping System...
...coarse, grasping Southerner, bellowing his frustration at not being able to seize his family homestead, halts in his tirade long enough to realize that he is talking to an empty room--empty, that is, except for the coffin containing his recently deceased aunt, to whom he kowtowed for years in hopes of getting his way. He turns to go and shouts, "You hateful old woman! I never liked...
...bright star in the whole movie is Wendt who plays the chubby neighbor with beautiful aloof poise. When Katt moves into the house, Wendt greets him by saying the old lady who lived there before was crazy. "The biggest bitch in the sky," Wendt sneers. "She was my aunt," Katt answers. "Heart of gold," Wendt comes back without pausing...