Word: spacek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jonathan Edwards's congregation, dividing her time between spreading the Good Word among the suburban heathen and tormenting her daughter at the slightest hint of sin rearing its ugly head within Carrie. Mrs. White (played by Piper Laurie) has plainly left her mark on Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek); naive almost beyond belief, Carrie is utterly traumatized by the experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less) in the opening scene. She cannot find relief from the mockery of her more sophisticated peers at home; a healthy dose of Scripture...
...Spacek lucked into her first movie part-in an overwrought thriller called Prime Cut-just five fast years ago. Before that, her professional experience had amounted to some high school theatricals back home in Quitman, Texas (she failed to qualify for the senior play, however); posing for a perfume ad; and landing a one-line part on a John Lennon-Yoko Ono record album. Prime Cut, which featured Spacek as a piece of hollow-eyed jailbait, did at least manage to get across a little of her country-fresh, city-smudged sensuality. Spacek (the name is Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced...
...Some of the other things include keeping an orderly house up in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon with her husband, Art Director Jack Fisk. She and Fisk first met when they both worked on Badlands. "We were getting along so well," Spacek remembers, "I thought it couldn't last. He was the first guy I ever really relaxed around." The marriage has flourished, despite some rather odd exigencies. During Carrie, Art Director Fisk had to seal his wife in a coffin-shaped box and bury her under several layers of rock...
...Fisk home is "basically a little tract house," converted by Jack and Sissy into something funkier. Now the place is full of skylights, doors, windows and, outside, a gigantic hot tub made of redwood and heated by gas. Says Spacek: "It's a good way to loosen people up at parties." Guests in the tub are most likely to be artists and sculptors from the neighborhood-the Fisks do not run with the movie crowd-and the house will be spanking clean the morning after a social occasion...
...really start to concentrate on anything else until I get things orderly," Spacek confesses, and this kind of dedicated fuss-budgetry gives her a strong center of gravity whenever celebrity threatens to throw her off balance. Says she: "The main thing is I don't want to lose myself. If I get hit by a car, I want to go out knowing I returned my neighbor's cake...