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Comedians, Straussians, Victorians, and Idlers

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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Amy Adams's Performance in Arrival

Amy Adams was a lovely young woman from Minnesota, who was acting in community theater. Hollywood came to make a mockumentary about beauty pageants called drop dead gorgeous with Kirsty Ali. And Amy Adams tried out and was hired to take to have a small part of bit part. After she was on set for a day or day and a half,. Kirsty Ali said, you must drop everything and move to California and become an actress. You have the chops. I've never seen anyone with as much natural ability. She's just so pretty. John Pamford: "She has it all. She's pretty"

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