Birth nameElizabeth A. Perkins Birth information18 November 1960, Queens, New York, USA BioElizabeth Perkins was born on November 18, 1960, in the borough of Queens, New York, and raised in Vermont. She studied acting at Chicago's Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University for three years, then launched her professional career with a co-starring gig in the touring company of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986). Seasoned, she returned to New York in the spring of 1984 to make her Broadway debut as a replacement in the Simon play. As a stage actress, she has trod the boards with Playwrights Horizon, the Ensemble Studio, The New York Shakespeare Festival, and, back in Chcago, with the Steppenwolf Theater. She found time out to marry the Chicago actor Terry Kinney.Her first major film role was in the underwhelming screen adaptation of David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," which was turned into a Rob Lowe/Demi Moore star vehicle retitled About Last Night... (1986). Perkins sparkled as the grown woman interested in Tom Hanks in Big (1988), but her career was spotty and she never gained the traction to bring her the stardom that seemed to be within her grasp. In 1991, Perkins starred with Kevin Bacon in He Said, She Said (1991) (thus giving her a Bacon Factor of exactly 1) but, sadly, for such a talented actress, her biggest box-office hit has proven to be The Flintstones (1994), in which she portrayed Wilma.Perkins made her television debut in For Their Own Good (1993) (TV), a 1993 TV movie based on the true story of a woman who underwent mandatory sterilization to work in a chemical plant. She starred in the NBC comedy series "Battery Park" (2000) produced by Gary David Goldberg (who recently directed her in Must Love Dogs (2005) in a supporting role to her good friend Diane Lane), and HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV). Her other TV work includes Babilônia 2000 (1999), Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997) (TV), and "From the Earth to the Moon" (1998) in an episode directed by Sally Field.Perkins divorced Kinney and now is married to the cinematographer Julio Macat. Recently, she starred in John Patrick Shanley's black comedy "Four Dogs and a Bone" at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse. She also has a starring role in the series "Weeds" (2005) for Showtime. Her talent, personality, and good looks keep her steadily employed, and it wouldn't be surprising if now, on the other side of 40, she makes a breakthrough and does some major work commensurate with her early promise.

One of the professors in my masters studies likes to use the following scene in his classes. It's from "The Graduate," and while the movie maybe hasn't aged as well as others, this is a pretty seamless example of brilliant cinematography, editing, and direction.


Maybe what really should be appreciated there is just how perfect the music by Simon & Garfunkle, is. Using pop music that reflected the existential malaise of Ben Braddock, a young man with absolutely no ambition or direction, rather than just traditional Elmer Bernstein-style scoring, was considered, in 1967, pretty damn daring. Songs in film were usually limited to musicials, though by this point the musicial was slowly dying, a reflection in the change of the national attitude; somehow with Vietnam going on, and protests in the street, pretty people bursting into happy songs didn't quite feel right.
In four decades subsequent, pop music has become ubiqutious in modern movies,
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The InStyle bash wasn't the only place where the stars were celebrating after the Golden Globes. Big winners Tina Fey and Colin Farrell showed off their statues at the NBC party alongside happy new parents Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Over at the Showtime event, Dexter costars Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter posed for the first time as a married couple. Meanwhile, David Duchovny made sure to mention his "wife" multiple times last night perhaps to squash any lingering, rocky marriage rumors. Since Téa was nowhere in sight, David chatted with his Californication costar, Evan Handler. Adrian Grenier and Mark Wahlberg were living it up at the HBO affair with the cast of Entourage and a camera of their own. Bella beauty, Kate Winslet finished off her magical night by making the rounds with her husband Sam Mendes, looking happy as could be with her arms full of awards.
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Penelope Cruz was the guest of honor at yet another party celebrating her Oscar nomination in La yesterday. Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas hosted at their home out on their patio with guests that included Kate Hudson and Rosario Dawson. If Penelope ends up taking home the trophy come Oscar night, she'll have plenty of friends to thank in her acceptance speech. Do you think she will win - make sure to fill out our Oscar ballot for a chance to win a year's worth of movie tickets. To see who else came out to celebrate Penelope, just read more. Images include: Penelope Cruz, Melanie Griffith, Frances Fisher, Kate Hudson, Penelope Ann Miller, Jon Voight, Rosario Dawson, Elizabeth Perkins, Terrence Howard, Paul Reubens Flynet
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