Show Business: Taking Chances

"/ wanted to give meaning to my own time, to be the unattainable luring love that drives men on, the angel of light, the best of the universe made womankind, the living sacrifice, the end! Shit." −Carla (in Kennedy's Children)

"I never aspired to be a sex symbol, let alone Marilyn Monroe. In the end, trying to be a sex goddess can only bring pain and despair. If the career has not been based on a creative ideal, then where is that solid bit of your life?" −Shirley Knight

Nowhere is that solid bit more apparent than in Shirley Knight's performance as Carla...

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