"We moved every couple of years until the seventh grade, when we moved to Monessen, Pennsylvania," Frances McDormand once recalled. "They put me in the remedial class there, because they didn't know what I'd learned.
"All the girls were wearing go-go boots and miniskirts, and my mother was still making me dotted-swiss, puff-sleeved baby-doll dresses! I remember this one kid turning around to me, like the first week, and saying, 'What are ya? Pregnant?'"
[Among the comments given McDormand by agents and casting directors? "You walk like a halfback, you're going to have to know how to walk differently," and, "You know, you would make an ideal pioneer woman; unfortunately, they're not making westerns now."]
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Premiere, Oct. 2001
