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Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino, daughter of actor Paul Sorvino, says her
father didn’t want her to go into professional …… . “He felt it was too full of
pain and rejection,” she says.
Indeed, Mira Sorvino, who …… in AT FIRST SIGHT, might have taken a
…… path in her life if world events had not changed her course. Sorvino had
been …… in China ever since she read Pearl Buck’s THE GOOD EARTH as a
child. In 1985 she went to Harvard, …… in East Asian studies and learning
Mandarin. In her junior year she …… to live in China. “ …… I was lonely, but
after I made some ……, I had a great sense of happiness and positivism about
having started a …… life.”
She studied in Beijing and was close to the nascent pro-democracy student
movement. After about eight months she …… to Harvard, fully expecting to go
back to China to teach. Then a massacre in Tiananmen Square …… . “It shut a
door,” she said. “If this terrible thing hadn’t …… done, my life might have
happened in China.”
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During my high-school days I was …… to work at the municipal park, cutting
…… and trimming weeds. On the first day the park superintendent …… me to
the parking lot about 200 yards from a large statue of an Indian. Around the
…… was a work crew of three other summer-help …… cutting weeds by hand.
The group would work for a …… of minutes, then stand around …… for a
while, obviously unaware that we were watching them. The …… didn’t say
anything, but I could tell he was …… mad. Finally he spoke to me: “Son, how
would you like to be my assistant for the summer?”
“You bet I would, sir!” I replied …… at the prospect. “You can count
……me!”
“Good!” he responded. “For years we’ve only had one statue standing out
there on that hill. Your first …… as my assistant is to get those other three ……
to work.”
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When a photographer first spotted Cindy Crawford in a mall and suggested she
…… about modeling, the family didn’t have the $500 for head …… to create a
portfolio. But he had planted the seed of an idea, so they began …… . The lure
wasn’t the glamour – it was the earning potential.
Cindy …… modeling as a way to raise …… for tuition at Northwestern
University. But she became successful so …… that her academic …… went up
in smoke.
“I always wanted to make a …… in life,” says Crawford, “but I never
……it to be in modeling. That was just a good …… to make money. It was
never my dream.”
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