Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DRUMBEAT BEGAN AT THE Cannes Film Festival in May, and it is now more insistent than a migraine pulse. Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance in Georgia has won the sort of critics' raves that fuel studio campaigns for an Oscar nomination. This racket must cease. To praise Leigh in this small, frail film is to mistake big acting for good acting, and shriek for soul...
...movie, written by Leigh's mother Barbara Turner and directed by Ulu Grosbard, is a two-hander about the edgy relationship of show-biz sibs. Georgia (Mare Winningham) sings pop; she's famous and sensible, a caring mom and sister. Sadie (Leigh) sings barroom rock and thinks the way to be Janis Joplin is to do drugs, embarrass herself onstage and lurch toward an early, ugly death. At the mike, in the van, at the airport, she goes self-destructively, picturesquely nuts...
Although the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh as a barroom singer has won the sort of critical raves that fuel studio campaigns for an Oscar nomination, TIME's Richard Corliss begs to differ: "To praise Leigh in this small, frail film is to mistake big acting for good acting, and shriek for soul." A daring, often endearing actress, Leigh virtually patented the role of neurotic little-girl-lost in such cable-ready classics as "Sister, Sister" and "Miami Blues". Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle...
...response to the attack, Mather House Masters Sandra R. Nadaff '75 and Leigh G. Hafrey '73 and Allston Burr Senior Tutor Mary K. Peckham issued a letter to house residents urg- ing them to be cautious and saying they had requested additional security in the area...
...very rich environment to grow up in," says Leigh G. Hafrey '73, co-master of Mather House, who is raising Nathaniel, 9, and Benjamin, 4, with house Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75. "You've got all these smart, accomplished people who are almost always very generous with their time and their attention...