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Article: Christina's world: the dark, sardonic 10-year-old who debuted in Mermaids is now a dark, sardonic 26-year-old--and still a Hollywood oddity. But with her searing turn in Black Snake Moan, Christina Ricci puts lightweight starlets to shame.(Profile)(Biography)
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At the Sundance Film Festival last year, a young director named Craig Brewer was suddenly the biggest new thing in a business built on overnight sensations. His feature Hustle & Flow--a little movie about a small-time pimp and a scrawny geek who burst through the Memphis music scene with their homemade hits--wowed the snowbound crowd and, more important, sold to Paramount for $9 million. That sale instantly made Brewer's next script, for something called Black Snake Moan, the kind of smoking-hot property that gets read on the studio jets back to Hollywood. No matter that Black Snake Moan was a Southern fable about a Godfearing former bluesman, Lazarus, who chains a trashy ...
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