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on 24-Apr-02 02:42 PM
Jodie Foster
1962-
B.A. 1984(Yale University)
Her debut before the camera involved partial nudity. At the age of 3, Jodie Foster posed as the bare-bottomed Coppertone child in the widely circulated suntan lotion ad. After work in commercials, tlevision, and film, a brief part in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) led to her main chance: the director cast her as Iris, the 12-year-old prostitute, in Taxi Driver.
She called the role her professional turning point. "It was the first time anyone asked me to create a character that wasn't myself. It was the first time I realized that acting wasn't this hobby you just sort of did, but that there was actually some craft."
Foster has hewn to this unorthodox path, winning Oscars in films that address unpleasant social issues (The Accused, about a rape victim, in 1988 and The Silence of the Lambs, a 1991 film opposite Anthony Hopkins in the role of a psychopath). Directing has been another activity, starting with the story of a child prodigy, Little Man Tate.
Yale Alumni Magazine
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on 24-Apr-02 04:53 PM
How about this?
Taxi_driver came at 1976(jodie was 14 at the time and she was nominated for oscar).
March 30th, 1981 when John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, Hinkley said he was obsessed with Jodie and copied the movie Taxi Driver (1976) in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, tried to shoot presidential candidate Palantine. He said he did it just to impress Jodie. After that she started living very scared and secret life. She lives very secrative life, and noone knows about the father of her kid, and noone apperantly knows where she lives. She is hot.
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