Article: Kyra Sedgwick.(Interview)

She's an all-American Jewish WASP actress - a scion of those New England Sedgwicks and a cousin of Edie - whose sting is beginning to make us yell

As the caustic sis in that movie, she got to kick Roberts's philandering husband (Dennis Quaid) in the balls. Grown men wept, grown women were proud, and anyone who'd ever seen Twentieth Century (1934) remembered Carole Lombard kicking John Barrymore in the stomach.

At thirty, Sedgwick is liable to be more abrasive or acidic than, say, Meg Ryan or Sandra Bullock, which may be why Hollywood has used her cautiously so far. This month, she plays the love interest in Phenomenon, which stars John Travolta as a regular ...

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