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...says, when two classmates tried to run him over with a car. He left Louisiana at 21 after the man behind him in line at a gay bar was struck over the head with a baseball bat. After years of applying makeup to his younger sister and misfit friends ("I figured if I could make them feel beautiful, I wouldn't feel so ugly myself"), he set out for New York City. Within a year, he did his first job for Vogue and soon attracted advocates like Tina Turner and Cindy Crawford. In 1997 his book Making Faces debuted...
Minnie Driver plays Ramona Hibbard, a dewy-eyed misfit from a dysfunctional family who has aspirations to become the next Miss America. Why a talented actress like Driver would want to waste her time on this train wreck is completely beyond my comprehension. Along with her best friend, Ruby, played by an annoying Joey Lauren Adams, Mona makes her way to the top through backstabbing and sabotaging her competitors. After a particularly vicious episode in which she glued her rival JoJo's hand to a burning baton, Mona is disqualified from competing in the county. Most unfortunately...
...role 32 P, on a fraternity sweater 33 Syrians want to wade in its waters 35 Business-card abbr. 38 Guinness World Records suffix 40 Banned apple spray 43 ___ Arens, a vocal opponent of Barak's peace policy 44 Forearm bones 45 Supermodel Campbell 46 Photographer Adams 48 Social misfit 50 Reagan was its pres. 51 Boxing promoter King 52 Shelley specialty 54 Out of date: abbr. 55 Inside-the-Beltway figure...
...although it might seem that if one were making a movie about a charismatic, handsome, wealthy young man and the lonely misfit who desperately wants to be him, one would cast Damon in the glamour boy's role, he says he identifies with the dork. "I really relate to Ripley," says Damon. "I always did. I think most people will." And while there are differences--Damon says he played Ripley as a virgin, which, given his dating history (Claire Danes and Minnie Driver are two of the famous ones), must have been a stretch--there are also similarities. Damon...
...like him now because I realize that he accomplished everything as a misfit. He was from Alabama when most players were from the cities. His size made him too short to be a power forward and too fat to be a small forward. But he learned to shoot the jumper, to take the ball down low in the post, and to make the steal or the block...