Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family inspiration helped. Liza remained equally close to her father and her mother after they divorced in 1951. The sets of her father's movies were her childhood playground: "I threw confetti in the American in Paris ballet," she recalls. "On The Long, Long Trailer I think I was playing hopscotch when the camera went by, but he may not have used that take." While her mother gave her practical presents, her father showered her with costumes from his lushly designed movies and would improvise bedtime stories from ideas that she threw out. "I fought my whole life...
...dramatic. Yes, it's touching. Yes, it's heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, etc. But it's so much more. As Tom Hanks remarks in the promotional trailer, "This is the story of a miracle...
...hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...looking forward to big salaries once they'd finished their years in green, learning computers or communications or whatever. The commercials aren't all lies, at least, not so far - you can use this place to get someplace else. It's not a last resort. Yes, it's for trailer trash and teenage urban desperadoes, out of options and desperate for a job and some health insurance for families they'd started way too early. But it's also for 18-year-old troublemakers from Houston looking for a head start on a career as a chef...
...believes in employment. Work is her religion: when she gets it, she does it harder (and glummer) than anyone else. When she has no job, she focuses on getting one so maniacally that she is in danger of destroying herself and the one fellow who befriends her. In the trailer park where she lives with her slutty, alcoholic mother, she methodically does the chores. For Rosetta, living is one job she can't lose. Unless she fires--kills--herself. And when she does decide to commit suicide, she is still a model employee: before turning on the gas, she calls...