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Post by ilovewinona on Sept 24, 2009 6:27:56 GMT -5
A short article "A Shooting Star" by Jeffries Blackerby in "Allure" magazine from 2000. ----- WHO? WHAT? WHERE? Winona Ryder posed for the cover at New York's Pier 59 studios overlooking the Hudson River. WHEN? Sunday, November 10, 1999, at noon. WHY? "Girl Interrupted", the movie Ryder produced and stars in, opens soon. WHY SUNDAY? It was one of Ryder's few days off from shooting her next movie. "Autumn in New York" with Richard Gere. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Sept 26, 2009 6:44:34 GMT -5
THE SPREAD: After trying on two racks of clothing, Ryder got ready for her close-up. The clothes don't even show. (she's wearing a tank top but feel free to use your imagination.) PERK PLACE: During the shoot, makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin gave Ryder's assistant and publicist a free eyebrow tweezing, while hairstylist Louis Angelo gave an "Allure" editor a trim. A LITTLE HELP FROM HER FRIENDS: Ryder asked "Allure" creative director Paul Cavaco to help her find something to wear as a presenter at the Academy Awards. (The Oscars are four months away. They'd better hurry.) SHOP TALK: Ryder, the crew, and anyone in the room who knew someone famous (which was almost everyone) traded stories about Richard Gere, Julianne Moore and Jennifer Lopez. WHAT THEY SAID EXACTLY: Wouldn't you like to know? ----- end of the article ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 4, 2009 6:45:47 GMT -5
Now another interview ----- Screen Queen ---- The star (and producer) of "Girl Interrupted" sets the record straight about sanity, sleep, what she loves, and what she doesn't. ----- By Alex Williams ----When Winona Ryder's Girl Interrupted" debuts, critics will inevitably throw around the word "courageous": "Courageous" because Ryder ----- once a sensitive, overwhelmed girl who checked herself into a psychiatric institution ----- stared down her demons to play, well, a sensitive, overwhelmed girl who checks herself into a mental institution; "courageous" because Ryder, in her first turn as a producer, threw her weight behind not some cineplex-friendly romantic comedy, but rather a dark, edgy film adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir; and "courageous" because Ryder dared cast herself up against Hollywood's volcanic temptress of the moment Angelina Jolie. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 9, 2009 5:57:25 GMT -5
But Ryder has reason to feel secure these days. At 28, she's one of the few teen sirens who made it out of the '80s intact. In fact, Ryder seems to be growing up without aging. With her hedge-clipper chocolate locks, hazel-tinged eyes, and Devon-cream complextion she is the rare screen beauty who is prettier in person. She speaks in fluent Californian, conveying entire ironic sentences with artfull slouches and eye rolls. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 10, 2009 7:12:20 GMT -5
WR: I find "Girl Interrupted" the hardest film to talk about. It reminds me of when you read "Catcher in the Rye", and you go, "That's me, I'm Holden!" And then you realize everyone feels that way. And you just want to die. When I first read this book, I didn't want anybody else to relate to it. I wanted it to be me and Susanna, united against the world. ----- Q: It took six years to make this movie. Did you ever think it wouldn't happen? ----- WR: Never, I had utter faith in it. I chose to be a producer so I could be a bodyguard for the material and for [director] Jim Mangold ----- not to let anybody mess with the material or mess with his vision. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 14, 2009 7:10:12 GMT -5
Q: Was it disconcerting to play such an unglamorous role? ----- WR: I tell you, being around Angelina Jolie every day cen be depressing, because she is so beautiful. I don't know how to say this without sounding obnoxious, but I'm used to being the girl in the movie. Everyone was busy drooling over her, but I didn't get so much as a salivary gland acting up over me. ----- Q: Did filming thr movie in a psychiatric hospital bring up any bad memories of teenage angst? ----- WR: It did! I had terrible anxiety attacks during the shoot. There were scenes when I had to have anxiety attacks and I would have one. And then they would say "Cut", and I'd be like, "It's not stopping." [laughter] ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 23, 2009 7:24:35 GMT -5
Q ----- You actually did check yourself into an institution. Did you feel like it might be the end of your career? ----- WR ----- It was a very easy, quick decision. That "US" magazine piece --- they compiled it from many interviews I did over the years and kind of screwed me. There were a few things I didn't say at all. Like "home for the crazies"Would that ever come out of my mouth? Anyway, the reason I checked in, contrary to what has beem written, was for sleep disorder. ----- (more tomorrow) ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 26, 2009 6:08:22 GMT -5
WR ----- It all started when I was working on "The House of the Spirits". I was playing a Chilean refugee torture victim, and I was doing these scenes that eventually got cut out of the movie where I was being raped and tortured and electrocuted. And I was in Portugal in this tiny village three hours from the nearest town. I hadn't slept in so long. I was breaking up with my first boyfriend which unfortunately I can't really talk about, because you know who he is and I don't want to drag him back into this.But any first breakup is difficult. Then I comeback, and I don't have a home. I rent a weird little house in the L.A. hills. They're doing construction next door. ------ OMG, Winona's tortures scenes could of been a lot worst if those scenes weren't cut. What was left in the movie is really bad already. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Oct 31, 2009 6:05:36 GMT -5
I remember tears running down my face, going out to these men and pleading with them, "I need my sleep! You have to kill me or you have to stop what you're doing." [laughter] I remember so precisely, one day the noise started, it was like six in the morning. I'd gotten maybe 45 minutes of restless sleep.I just called my doctor and said, "I have to go somewhere to sleep." I was also depressed. So my friend drove me to this hospital. I checked in, but I could leave anytime. Then I was like, "OK, can I go to sleep now?" They put me in this really sterile room. The picture was nailed to the wall. The bed was nailed to the floor. I stayed there for three nights. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Nov 6, 2009 5:37:32 GMT -5
Q ----- Then what happened, did you blame your career? ----- WR ----- I think for a good while I blamed "the business" or "celebrity." Yet I was participating in it. I was making movies and giving interviews willingly. So I was going, "Leave me alone! Look at me! Leave me alone! Look at me!" [Laughter] At the time, I was so young that I honestly thought I should be able to work on movies and then be left alone and have my own private life. To this day, I still kind of stand by that. I just understand the curiosity a little bit more." ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Nov 9, 2009 6:25:11 GMT -5
Q----- You did an intense movie "Girl Interrupted". Now you're shooting "Autumn in New York". in which you play a dying woman. Are you planning to do any lighter roles? ----- WR ----- "Autumn in New York" is a light movie. It's kind of a comedy. [laughter] Well, I wanted it to be. When you meet my character she's already gone through her grieving, so she has a good attitude about dying ----- which interested me because my mother worked in a hospice for ten years, taking care of dying people. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Nov 21, 2009 12:50:12 GMT -5
Q ----- Which tragic heroine in history would you have loved to play? ----- WR ----- Anne Frank, I have a real affinity for her. I read her book on tape and got nominated for a Grammy, but I got beat out by Patrick Steward for "Peter and the Wolf". Do you think I was robbed? [laughter] ------ Q ------ Actors you'd like to work with? ----- Morgan Freeman is one of my favorite actors on the planet. I know it probably couldn't work for a love story or a leading man, but I would love to work with him. Jeff Bridges, ever since "Tron". I think he's one of the underrated, great actors we have in this country. Chris Cooper, from "Lone Star" John Turturro. And Stephen Rea -- he's really sexy. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Nov 29, 2009 6:49:36 GMT -5
Q ----- What about leading women? ----- WR - I'd love to get another chance to work with Meryl Streep. Julianne Moore. Kate Winslet. I have a picture of her up in my apartment that's really sick. Cate Blanchett. She's a powerhouse. Judy Davis. Vanessa Redgrave, again. And I love her daughter, Natasha Richardson. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 5, 2009 6:54:59 GMT -5
Q - What about directors? ---- WR - Kimberly Peirce, who did "Boys Don't Cry".The Coen brothers, obviously. Jim Mangold again. ---------- Q - If you could be in another profession, which would you choose? ------ WR - Photography. Do you know W. Eugene Smith? He's my favorite. I bought his library. Photography is what I spent my money on ----- that and first collections. I just spent a lot of money at the Sotheby's auction of Ginsberg's stuff. I bought "Mind Breaths" in his own handwriting. He was a good friend of my father's, and I just wanted to make sure it was safe. I was so thrilled when that guy bought those J.D. Sallinger letters from that f-u-c-k-i-n-g b*tch Joyce Maynard and then offered to destroy them. I was going to try to do that, but he beat me to it. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 15, 2009 19:59:26 GMT -5
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