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...Sometimes when people spill about their spirituality, it's because it's a new discovery: 'Oh, my God, I'm born again,'"> says Carrey's Number 23 co-star Virginia Madsen. "But this is something he really lives. Stand-up comics are usually kind of morose and dark people. But Jim is really funny. And he enjoys other people's sense of humor as well." Madsen said that between sets, he cracked people up with stories about when his family was homeless and living in a van. You have to be pretty funny to pull that...
...Justice Barbara A. Madsen, writing for a plurality of the court's 5-4 majority, said the Washington state legislature "was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children's biological parents...
...rights activists that Washington's 1998 "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) - which limited marriage to one man and one woman and was passed despite the objections of the state's Democratic governor - violated the state constitution's requirements to treat all citizens equally. "DOMA treats both sexes the same," Madsen wrote. "Neither a man nor a woman may marry a person of the same...
...Noir (played here by Kevin Kline) or the lonesome cowboys, Dusty and Lefty (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) that have been a long-standing feature of the show. These figures are present, but worked into a feckless and meandering story, which features "A Dangerous Lady" (Virginia Madsen) in a white trenchcoat, who is actually the Angel of Death, come to claim "The Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), who is present to administer the coup de grace to the program. There are a number of subplots in the film, in the best of which Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin play singing...
...most striking performance I saw this summer was “Junebug”’s Amy Adams, an actress who, like Virginia Madsen before her, dragged herself up out of slasher movie purgatory into a film in which she so fully embodies her character that the two may forever be inextricably linked. Adams is Ashley, the pregnant North Carolina native and self-appointed welcoming committee for her new, blue-state sister-in-law into their small town. With those impossibly doe-like eyes and confident drawl, Ashley is a woman satisfied because she fully understands everything...