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Article: BLOOD, SWEAT AND SHEEDY; ACTRESS LEAVES HER BRAT PACK PERSONA BEHIND TO TACKLE EDGY JUNKIE-ARTIST ROLE IN `HIGH ART'.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 23, 1998
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer
Every time Ally Sheedy drifts on screen in the acclaimed new independent film ``High Art,'' our attention is riveted. Painfully thin, with a manner that oozes resignation and psychic agony yet also projects a steely sense of self-knowledge, Sheedy's dissolute Lucy Berliner has everything going for her, attention-getting-wise, that the movies love about self-destructive artists.
Yet there's something about Sheedy's performance that doesn't exploit the cliches, that places Lucy's drug abuse and misunderstood-genius angst within a natural, proportioned framework. It's an impressively well-judged job, the kind of ...
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The Virginian Pilot;
October 2, 1998 ;
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... ... McCarthy. Rob Lowe. These actors are commonly known as the Brat Pack, a group of good-looking, too-cool-for-words twentysomethings ... careers climaxed in the 1980s. Throw in Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, director John Hughes and - voila - you have a classic '80s ...
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