Throughout her career Plimpton has appeared in many feature films including critically successful films Running on Empty ( 1988 ), Parenthood ( 1989 ), Eye of God ( 1997 ), The Sleepy Time Gal ( 2001 ), Hair High ( 2004 ) and Small Town Murder Songs ( 2011 ).

Plimpton has appeared in many television roles throughout her career.

Plimpton has garnered three consecutive Tony Award nominations: A Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2007 for her role in Top Girls.

Plimpton began her career in modeling, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated but tomboyish little girl.

This would begin a trend of Plimpton being typecast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood ( Andre Gregory )' s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford.

Plimpton shaved her head bald to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen, and her reputation for playing rebellious teenagers secured her the role of the indignant teenage daughter ( who shaves her head ) of Dianne Wiest in Parenthood.

Plimpton appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix ( then credited as Leaf Phoenix ), the younger brother of her former boyfriend, River, who portrayed her on-screen brother.

Plimpton says in the write-up about her " I went to jury duty the other day, and somebody said, ' You always play drug addicts!

" On July 14, 2011, Plimpton was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal as Virginia Chance in Raising Hope and submitted the episode " Say Cheese " on her behalf.

She is referenced in the Lawrence Arms song " Light Breathing ( Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator )," a song detailing the singer unexpectedly stepping into an elevator with her and being unable to overcome shyness to ask her out.

A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: " I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime.

In an episode of The Simpsons —" I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can "— Lisa Simpson is tempted by the Siren-like representatives of the Seven Sisters ( and George Plimpton ), who offer a scholarship to the Sister school of her choice ( and a George Plimpton hot plate ) if she will throw a

Through her friend Stevie ( Martha Plimpton ), she meets Candy Darling ( Stephen Dorff ), who in turn introduces her to Andy Warhol.

Julie ( Plimpton ), is still in high school, but is not interested in her education.

In a 1998 interview with journalist George Plimpton, Angelou discussed her writing process, and " the sometimes slippery notion of truth in nonfiction " and memoirs.

Prior to Paper Lion, Plimpton had pitched to major league baseball players and sparred with boxing great Archie Moore, but the success of this book, which was later adapted into a 1968 film starring Alan Alda as Plimpton, helped launch a kind of second career for Plimpton as an everyman athlete.

The film marked the second time Phoenix and Plimpton would play one another's romantic interest, having co-starred in the film The Mosquito Coast two years earlier.

However some scholars have disputed the Pythagorean interpretation of this tablet ; see Plimpton 322 for details .</ ref > indicating, in particular, that there was sophisticated understanding on the topic " in Mesopotamia in 1850 BCE.

Cohen, Feldman, and Plimpton were also nominated for awards for their performances in The Goonies.

The show premiered on September 21, 2010, receiving strong reviews for both Plimpton and the pilot itself.

In 2009, she was profiled by The New York Times for their " A Night Out With ..." series, in which Plimpton hosted an evening of poker at The Players.

George Plimpton was also part of the press corps, covering the fight for Sports Illustrated.

From 1953 to 1960, he worked with George Plimpton as the Art Editor for The Paris Review.

John F. Kennedy, through George Plimpton, is indirectly responsible for a full-length biography of General Ames.

This periodical carries great weight in the literary world, but has never been financially strong ; for its first half-century, it was allegedly largely financed by its publishers and by Plimpton.

Two articles by Richard Cummings, " An American in Paris " ( The American Conservative ) and " The Fiction of the State " ( Lobster ), disclose that the CIA provided funds for The Paris Review, using publisher Sadruddin Aga Khan's foundation as a conduit, and that Plimpton was an " agent of influence " for the CIA.

Peter Matthiessen took the magazine over from Harold Humes and ousted him as editor, replacing him with Plimpton, using it as his cover for his CIA activities.

Outside the literary world, Plimpton was famous for competing in professional sporting events and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

) Plimpton sparred for three rounds with boxing greats Archie Moore and Sugar Ray Robinson, while on assignment for Sports Illustrated.

" A feature in Mad Magazine titled " Some Really Dangerous Jobs for George Plimpton " spotlighted him trying to swim across Lake Erie, strolling through New York's Times Square in the middle of the night, and spending a day with Jerry Lewis.

Plimpton attending the 63rd Tony Awards, 2009

Plimpton was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture.

Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of " The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz.

* The Plimpton Prize for the story The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr: Paris Review, 2008

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American film directed by Ted Demme and starring Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O ' Donnell, Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, and Uma Thurman.

* Jan ( played by Martha Plimpton ) — Paul's on again-off again vegetarian girlfriend, now dating a meatcutter which irritates Paul to no end.

# Commentary by actors Ke Quan, Feldman, Astin, Green, Plimpton, Cohen, Brolin, and director Donner.

Plimpton was the voice of Miss Crumbles in the 2004 animated film Hair High by Bill Plympton.

Plimpton sits on the board of directors of The Players, a New York City social club founded in 1888 by actor Edwin Booth.

Plimpton also narrates audiobooks, notably the novels Diary by Chuck Palahniuk and Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh.

* 1863: The four-wheeled turning roller skate, or quad skate, with four wheels set in two side-by-side pairs, was first designed, in New York City by James Leonard Plimpton in an attempt to improve upon previous designs, The skate contained a pivoting action using a rubber cushion that allowed the skater to skate a curve just by leaning to one side.

In 1953, Plimpton joined the influential literary journal The Paris Review, founded by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, becoming its first editor in chief.

In 1958, prior to a post-season exhibition game at Yankee Stadium between teams managed by Willie Mays ( National League ) and Mickey Mantle ( American League )., Plimpton pitched against the National League.

Plimpton is also the protagonist of the semi-fictional George Plimpton's Video Falconry, a 1983 ColecoVision game postulated by humorist John Hodgman and recreated by video game auteur Tom Fulp.

* Plimpton is the protagonist of the semi-fictional George Plimpton's Video Falconry, a 1983 ColecoVision game postulated by humorist John Hodgman and recreated by video game auteur Tom Fulp for Newgrounds.

* Plimpton is the subject of the song A Talk With George by folk-rock musician Jonathan Coulton