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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: cavegal on November 05, 2010, 11:21:48 PM
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(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/clayburgh.jpg)
Jill Clayburgh, an Oscar-nominated actress known for portraying strong, independent women, died on Friday at her home in Lakeville, Conn. She was 66.
The cause was chronic leukemia, with which she had lived for 21 years, her husband, the playwright David Rabe, said.
Ms. Clayburgh, who began her career in films and on Broadway in the late 1960s, was among the first generation of young actresses — including Ellen Burstyn, Carrie Snodgress and Marsha Mason — who regularly portrayed characters sprung from the new feminist ethos: smart, capable and gritty, sometimes neurotic, but no less glamorous for all that.
New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/arts/06clayburgh.html)
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I don't know who found that wonderful photo, but it's a hi-10
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RIP... And I agree... Great photo choice.
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I never heard of her bit RIP. I agree on the photo too.
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She broke alot of ground in her roles. RIP. She was very good at her work.
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She was definitely a liberal's liberal, but for some reason I respect the old school liberals more than the new ones. Certainly, their acting professionalism is far more credible in any case.
RIP, Jill. 66 is way too young, but surviving 20+ years of incurable leukemia is definitely courageous.
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I liked her in Semi Tough and Silver Streak.
RIP Jill.