Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon...
Later in the film, after the audience has become more accustomed to prostitution, Madjid makes the shocking discovery that Pat's sister, who says she's been working in an office, is actually working as a hooker in one of the more expensive streets. Madjid never tells Pat, but the sadness of his discovery hangs over him throughout the movie...
Fisher, 64, has earned his reward the hard way. He first read about the wrecked Spanish treasure galleons Nuestra Senora de Atocha and her sister ship Santa Margarita in 1960 in the Treasure Hunter's Guide, which included references to the two ships sinking off the "Keys of Matecumbe" in a 1622 hurricane. Several years later Fisher met Eugene Lyon, who was beginning research for a doctoral dissertation on the history of the Spanish conquest of Florida. Lyon was about to leave for Seville to study Spanish archives, and Fisher enlisted his aid in the search for the galleons...
...Start walking," then disappeared. His first uncertain steps seemed "like an eternity," he said later, until he made contact with Lebanese police and was whisked across the border to the protection of Syrian authorities and U.S. embassy officials in Damascus. It was there that he met Anderson's sister, Peggy Say, of Batavia, N.Y., who had gone to the Middle East to see if she could do anything to help secure her brother's release...
JoBeth Williams delivers a convincing performance as Rose's mother who tries to see only the best in people and ignore the animosity between her husband and daughter. After Williams discovers that her beautiful sister, Star, has engaged in some drunken flirtation with Voight, she flies into a righteous rage that is a wonder to watch. Somehow, beneath all the creampuffiness of her performance, Williams convinces us that Rose's mother has the spunk her daughter doesn...