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Article: Skin deep: raising the beauty bar with Kathy Bates. (Encounter).
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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THE OTHER DAY, KATHY BATES WAS STANDING with a friend on a street corner in Beverly Hills when a stranger offered an appraisal of her hot body.
"This guy said, `I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but you have really great nipples!'" Bates says, delighted. "I'm over 50. I'm overweight. I was never the Twiggy type. I just laughed hysterically before I could think to say, `Gee, would you like to take us out for a drink?'"
At this, Bates throws back her head and lets out one hell of a laugh--warm and rolling. Ever since she stepped naked into a hot tub with Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt, Bates has gained something she's never had before as a film ...