Word: gann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take a semester off if an amazing part came along that I couldn't pass up," says Salenger, who won the 1984 Youth in Films award for Best Actress for her role as the title character in The Journey of Natty Gann...
...Annie watching her sister rehearse a dance routine when a girl playing a background orphan became ill. A producer saw her and decided she was right for the part. At age 10, her career was underway. Four years later, Salenger landed her first starring role in Natty Gann. Since that time, she says she has maintained a whirlwind schedule...
Sponsored by the antitax crusader Paul Gann, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, and Orange County Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, the initiative would compel physicians, surgeons, blood banks and test sites to report to public health offices anybody turning up with the HIV virus. Moreover, reporting would be mandatory if there were merely "reasonable cause to believe" a person was infected. HIV carriers would be required to provide authorities with the names of those they might have caught the virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients...
AILING. Paul Gann, 75, conservative tax crusader who in 1978 co-sponsored (with Howard Jarvis) California's property-tax-cutting Proposition 13 and in later years led ballot fights to limit state and local spending; with acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome, contracted from blood transfusions he received during open-heart surgery in 1982; in Carmichael, Calif...
...find any of Walt Disney's new spice in Natty Gann, but the movie isn't Snow White either. It is a fun and well-done movie, well worth seeing for all its simplicity...