With the tragic loss of jobs and money by so many in the last week, I had to distract myself by focusing on something totally unrelated to Wall Street: Hollywood.
At the same time financial markets were collapsing worldwide, the movie “The Women” was released, starring Annette Bening and Meg Ryan, two actresses who took multi-year career breaks and then returned to the screen. They are not alone. Michelle Pfeiffer, Teri Hatcher and Calista Flockhart are among the growing group of prominent actresses who have relaunched back into acting after time away. Pfeiffer took a five-year break, Hatcher took six years, Flockhart took four, Ryan took six, and Bening, took not one, but two three-year breaks when her first and fourth children were born.
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Let’s face it:
Meg Ryan’s acting range isn’t
the most versatile. In fact, her roles that most come to mind are
her repeated portrayals of a charming, yet slightly rigid hopeless
romantic in “When Harry met Sally,â€
“Sleepless in Seattle,â€
“French Kiss,†and
“You’ve Got
Mailâ€...
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