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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.
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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 appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix ( then credited as Leaf Phoenix ), the younger brother of her former boyfriend, River, who portrayed her on-screen brother.
Plimpton received her second nomination for a Tony Award in 2008, Best Performance by a Featured Actress In a Play, for her work in Top Girls at the Biltmore Theater.
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.
Plimpton and head
He currently works for US law firm Debevoise & Plimpton as head of its European litigation practice.
Goldsmith has been appointed head of European Litigation at the London office of US law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.
Plimpton and play
The play was staged at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater starring actress Martha Plimpton, who is credited with bringing renewed modern interest to the play.
After working as a model, she broke in to television with the role of Julie Davis in the children's series Zoo Family in 1985 and went on to play mechanic Emma Plimpton in the critically acclaimed and popular drama series The Flying Doctors.
When finally inserted at quarterback for a series in a scrimmage conducted in Pontiac, Michigan, Plimpton managed to lose yardage on each play, convincing many in the crowd that he was a professional sports clown inserted for amusement purposes, not someone who was genuinely giving his best effort.
During the 2007-2008 New York theatre season, Manhattan Theatre Club presented the play at the Biltmore Theatre in a production starring Mary Catherine Garrison, Mary Beth Hurt, Jennifer Ikeda, Elizabeth Marvel, Martha Plimpton, Ana Reeder, and Marisa Tomei.
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.
The play was originally produced at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater of the Lincoln Center Theater from April 27 through August 28, 1994, featuring Martha Plimpton, Josh Hamilton and Steve Zahn.
Plimpton and for
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 and playing
George Plimpton wrote that this was equivalent to " picking up a baseball bat in the morning and playing for the New York Yankees in the afternoon.
George Plimpton, the author, also wore number 00 as he was researching his book about his experience playing goalie for the Boston Bruins.
Wismer agreed, later forgot about it, and Plimpton ended up playing with and writing about Wismer's old team, the Detroit Lions, for the magazine and in the book Paper Lion.
Plimpton and role
In 1991, Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role.
In 1999, Plimpton had a recurring role in the television drama ER as Meg Corwyn.
In October 2007 Plimpton completed a starring role in A Midsummer Night's Dream on Broadway in New York City.
However, Wilson did star in the film as Bill Murray's would-be son, Ned Plimpton ; a role written specifically for Wilson.
Writer and reporter George Plimpton was cast in a minor role in this film ( 4th Gunman ).
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