Word: dreamers
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...display and made homespun artworks. When he died, Gehry's mother went to work for a Los Angeles department store and rose to be head of the drapery department, where she did domestic interiors. "So the creative genes were there," Gehry says. "But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my mother who thought I was just reticent to do things. She would push...
Giving away too much of the plot would spoil the pic's comedic surprises, so I'll give you a barebones outline. Woody Allen plays Ray Winkler, a lowlife, an impractical dreamer, who has to put up with the constant nags of his wife Frenchy (Tracy Ullman). Ray spends his days conjuring schemes - usually illegal ones (he's done some hard time - yes, yes, imagining Woody Allen surviving time in a jail cell is part of the humor, I'm sure). This time, Ray notices that a store next to a bank is up for rent and convinces his friends...
...eager reader since childhood and an energetic dreamer-up of stories, Roberts decided "to take one of those stories out of my head and write it down." A friend had recently introduced her to romance novels. "So I was gobbling those things up, and I thought, 'I'm going to write one of these. They're easy.'" They were not, it turned out, that easy, and she endured a beginner's run of rejection slips. But she was hooked. "As soon as I started writing, it was like, 'Why didn't I do this before? What have I been waiting...
Jones has no such problem, so Ross was asked the chances for an aging dreamer who sometimes doubles over in the ring with a nicotine cough but has more personality than most of the witless drones you see on TV. "The chances for a guy like that are slim and none," Ross says, "and Slim's about to leave town...