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...until they are purged from the system. Issue exit visas to Trent Lott and Tom DeLay, to Dick Armey, to the ancient and awful Strom Thurmond and the odious Jesse Helms. Let the ostraca fall upon the bombastic charlatan Jesse Jackson, upon Henry Hyde and Maxine Waters, upon Barbara Boxer and Orrin Hatch...
Like many indie films, Girlfight works primarily as a character driven piece. For example, Diana's love interest and fellow boxer, Adrian, played by Santiago Douglas, must be the most attractive guy I have seen on the big screen in a long time. No, I don't mean he's hot in that Ryan Phillippe kind of way. A perfect blend of testosterone and fragility, Adrian easily wins Diana's heart; so what if she can kick his ass in the ring...
...ring. The would-be actress was living with her mom in Jersey City, N.J., and laboring as an extra in movies like Summer of Sam; the thankless, anonymous work was wearing her out. Then she saw an ad in Back Stage for a Latina actress to portray a boxer in a new film. Rodriguez didn't box and had never auditioned for a speaking role in a movie before, but the ad intrigued her. "I thought, If I'm going to quit, I might as well give it a shot before I quit," Rodriguez says. "If you don't play...
Looks as if we have a winner. Beating out more than 300 other women, Rodriguez, 22, won the lead in Girlfight, an independent film about a female boxer's athletic and romantic struggles. Girlfight's budget was small ($1 million), but the film is having a big-time impact: it won a prize for directing and shared an award for best drama at this year's Sundance Film Festival. And Rodriguez's no-punches-pulled performance has critics sputtering superlatives like Don King hyping a pay-per-view fight. To prepare for the role, Rodriguez trained for 4 1/2 months...
...Summer of Sam" and "The Cradle Will Rock," the 22-year-old actress is knocking out critics with her performance in "Girlfight," a low-budget, high-voltage drama that won prestigious awards at Sundance and Cannes. Portraying a female Rocky who evolves from high-school brawler to prize-winning boxer, Rodriguez comes across "like a young Brando," says director Karyn Kusama, who chose her out of 350 other actresses who auditioned for the part...