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Fannie Flagg
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Fannie Flagg was born Patricia Neal in Birmingham on Sept. 21, 1944. She has dyslexia and ADHD, which makes it hard for her to read and write, but she wanted to be an actress from a very young age. When she was a kid, she wrote a play called "The Whoopee Girls", which got a lot of laughs but also got her suspended because she used the word "martini" in the play.
When she got older, she had a minor acting career, appearing on "Candid Camera", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and Match Game". She also was in "Five Easy Pieces and had a small part in "Grease".
In the early 80's she wrote a short story about her childhood and entered in a contest. Eudora Welty, who is a favorite writer of Fannie Flagg's, encouraged her and complimented the story, which became Fannie Flagg's first book, "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" (aka "Coming Attractions"). Next she wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe", which was nominated for a Pulitzer prize and the audio version was nominated for a Grammy. She cowrote the screenplay which was nominated for an Oscar. Eleven years later, in 1998, her third book, "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" came out.
She lives in Montecito California and goes to Alabama often.
In August of 2002, her fourth and most recent book, "Standing in the Rainbow", was released. It is a continuation of "Welcome to the World Baby Girl!", exploring the lives of characters who had minor roles in that book.
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This has some of the typical information on Fannie Flagg, as well as about her most recent book "Standing in the Rainbow". It also has contact information if you want to send her a fan letter or a pie or something :-).
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Cicely Tyson
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Cicely Tyson was born on December 19, 1933 in NYC. She grew up in Harlem, and was the star of some very important movies about African Americans, including "Sounder", and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", which was adapted from the Ernest Gaines novel and for which she won an Emmy.
She was also in "Roots". She played Kunta Kinte's mother. Cicely Tyson has always insisted on a certain amount of dignity in the parts she plays, refusing to add to the stereotypes that black actors often have to portray. She has never played a stripper/prostitute, or a "mammy"-type character. In "Fried Green Tomatoes" she has a small but powerful role as Sipsey, the small but powerful and essential-to-the-plot cook who works at the cafe.
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