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...love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom...
...rumors that your mom was a stage mom...
...convinced I’ve stumbled across a never-ending cycle of inter-relatedness. This summer I’m working for the New York Daily News, and, as it turns out, the business editor three rows over had dinner with my mom in Thailand 30 years ago because my mom’s teaching colleague and traveling companion was his cousin. Sounds like a soap opera, doesn’t it? And it doesn’t stop there. I met a friend two years ago at a dinner party and lost touch. This summer, amid hundreds of picnickers...
...Mom and Pop are not quite so humble in real life as they are in their daughter's mythology, but as Knightley watched her parents and her elder brother Caleb struggle through the uncertainty of life in the theater, she picked up a few critical lessons. First is the old adage that work is work, meaning that every job is a cause for celebration. "That's why my five-year plan is to take every job I can," Knightley says. "I know for a fact the work is going to dry up, and people will get bored of me. That...
What she does have is an obvious screen presence and an ambition beyond fame. "Nobody ever believes me when I say it, but that was never one of the reasons I wanted to act," says Knightley. "That's not what my mom and dad are, and my knowledge of the business wasn't anything to do with that." She recognizes that movie star is "a pretty good job," and she may yet sign on to that Pirates sequel. But asked if she's holding out because she would rather do something deeply obscure and conspicuously artistic, like, say, repertory theater...