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Article: Brittany Murphy.(Interview)
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- December 1, 2002
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PART JANIS JOPLIN, PART CLARA BOW, THE MOVIES' NEWEST REASON TO GET EXCITED MAY JUST BE THE GUTSIEST YOUNG ACTRESS AROUND. HERE SHE GOES MIND TO MIND WITH KINDRED SPIRIT DREW BARRYMORE
Through much of the late 1990s, Brittany Murphy was finding her way in Hollywood and trying to break free from the goofball label that followed her performance in 1995's Clueless. Though she stole some scenes in comedies like Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), her particular road to stardom--presently merging into a superhighway--was paved with gritty, dramatic work in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Don't Say a Word (2001). A nervy bombshell who's anything ...