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...Deirdre allows Finch and his family to adopt Joseph, which in the name of preserving her sanity. Augusten embarks upon life with the Finches, perhaps the most neurotic, Freudian-inspired family in the history of literature and cinema, which includes the doctor, his put-upon homemaker wife Agnes (Jill Clayburgh, “Ally McBeal”), and two daughters, Natalie (Even Rachel Wood, “Thirteen”) and Hope (Gwyneth Paltrow). Throughout the movie it is readily apparent that this is a stellar cast that embodies each role with gusto and force. I cannot emphasize enough...
Next, Gross traveled to New York City, where he carefully coached Clayburgh on her algebraic lines...
That beleaguered film enthusiast wouldn’t be entirely off base. Before Good Will Hunting, before A Beautiful Mind, there was It’s My Turn—a decidedly lame 1980 flick in which Clayburgh plays Dr. Kate Gunzinger, a beautiful young math professor stuck in a frustrating romance with stuffy Charles Grodin. “At last, Mr. Wrong,” the video’s cover cries. Clayburgh cavorts and spars with bad boy Michael Douglas while struggling for a breakthrough proof that will, she insists, put her on par with Euclid and Newton...
Gross helped introduce Clayburgh to the rough-and-tumble life of a math wonk, referring her to three female colleagues of his so she could get an idea of what it was like for a woman in academia. When she visited them, Gross says, the movie star was crestfallen to learn that female professors in the male-dominated field of math weren’t as confident and commanding as the role Bergstein had written...
...wasn’t all an uphill climb, Gross says. In fact, teaching the secret quirks of math professors to Clayburgh, still glowing from her 1978 triumph in An Unmarried Woman, had a distinct upside...