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JULIA
ROBERTS: Daringly different
(Julia
Roberts bags top actress Oscar )
Just say the word Julia Roberts and you
can immediately conjure up an image of a Pretty
Woman. Yes, that oh-so-popular hit of a sassy
street-walker who stops a millionaire on the street
and ends up in his suite and as his  sweetheart,
has made this sweetly-smiling girl with an abundance
of natural curls and a complete lack of inhibition,
one of Hollywood’s hottest stars. Julia is
a snippy Scorpio who entered this world on October
28, 1967. Her father, Walter, sold vacuum cleaners.
Her mother Betty was a secretary. But all three
of the Roberts’ children, Eric, Lisa and
Julia reached out for the stars. Julia may not
have been the prettiest but she sure was the luckiest.
The brightest star of them all after her prince-and-the-showgirl
love story that took the box-office by storm.
JULIA’S
STAR TREK MOVIES
Erin Brockovich 2000
Runaway Bride 1999
Notting Hill 1999
Stepmom 1998
Conspiracy Theory 1997
My Best Friend’s Wedding 1997
Mary Reilly 1996
Michael Collins 1996
Everyone Says I Love You 1996
Something to Talk About 1995
A Century of Cinema 1994
Ready To Wear (Pr-à-Porter) 1994
I Love Trouble 1994
The Pelican Brief 1993
The Player 1992
Hook 1991
Dying Young 1991
Sleeping With the Enemy 1991
Flatliners 1990
Pretty Woman 1990
Steel Magnolias 1989
Blood Red 1989
Satisfaction 1988
Mystic Pizza 1988
Stepmom (Executive Producer) 1998
TV
Law & Order 1999
(Series; appearance)
Murphy Brown 1998
(Series; appearance)
In the Wild: Orangutans With Julia Roberts
(Special) 1998
Friends (Guest star) 1996
Before Your Eyes: Angelie’s Secret 1995
(Special; narrator)
Miami Vice (Series; episode) 1988
Crime Story - 1988
(Series; appearance)
Baja Oklahoma (Movie) 1988 |
But hey, we’re skidding along too fast. To
trace Julia’s beginnings we have to go back
by at least a couple of years. Soon after completing
high school, Julia loped into LA and made an appearance
in the highly rated TV serials, Miami Vice and
Crime Story. 1988 was a crowded calendar for her
with a TV movie, Baja Oklahama and starring roles
in Mystic Pizza and Satisfaction. Followed Blood
Red and Steel Magnolias in the next couple of
months and then the movie that made her and Richard
Gere the world’s best loved lovers, Pretty
Woman in 1990.
Over the last decade, Julia has made half-a-dozen
special appearances on the small screen and starred
in 19 films, the best remembered being Sleeping
With The Enemy, Pelican Brief, Mary Reilly, My
Best Friend’s Wedding, Step Mom, Notting
Hill, Runaway Bride and Erin Brokovich that’s
got her an Oscar nomination this year. In fact,
Julia is one of the hottest contenders for the
golden statuette this year for her cuss-talking,
smart-walking, single-mother-of-three, Erin. For
the always-willing-to-experiment Julia Erin Brokovich
was not just a great role but a great person to
know.
Erin
Brokovich
Erin Brokovich is the true story of a twice-divorced,
mother of three who’s fighting to keep
her family afloat. The cellar is dry and so
is the bank account. And Erin with no job
in sight and no prospects to make the future
bright, doesn’t know where to turn. When
she does turn, she lands in a car smash-up
that doesn’t even bring her a settlement.
Life’s looking very grim indeed when
her attorney, ED Masry (Albert Finney) gets
her a job at his law firm.
Her helter-skelter life’s beginning to
settle down nicely when Erin sumbles upon
some medical records in the real estate files.
It’s not long before she uncovers a major
scoop of contaminated water seeping into the
local community and causing all the illnesses
that’s been plaguing them for so long.
Erin is soon spearheading a local protest,
winning over the once indifferent residents
with her tenacity, energy and single-minded
determination to fight this battle against
the local big-wigs, even if she has to do
it alone. She soons finds herself a friend
in her next-door neighbor George (Aaron Eckhart).
With this Harley Davidson biker on her case,
Erin goes from door-to-door enlisting support
for her cause soon has over 600 plaintiffs
signed up. With the local residents won over
to her side, Erin them moves to court and
with Ed’s help manages to wangle a settlement
of $300 million, the ever paid in a direct-action
lawsuit in the history of the U.S of A.
Her battle for the underdog also helps Erin
regain her battered self-confidence and rebuild
her life.
It’s the victory of the untiring human
spirit and one of the greatest roles to come
an actress’s way in recent times. And
Julia Roberts, a two-time Academy Award nominee,
does full justice to this exceptional young
woman. It’s a performance straight from
the heart and Julia’s hopeful it’s
win her an Oscar this time. |
The movie, as many know, was inspired by a true-life
story and Julia admitted in a recent interview
that the role had grabbed her because the real
Erin was such an intriguing person and so very
interesting to play. She confesses that there
wasn’t too much interaction between the real
Erin nad her reel life one because the former
was too busy saving the world to make the movie
set her home for more than a couple of hours,.
But for Julia it was enough to know that there
were women like Erin still around. In fact, she
admits that though for a conservative dresser
like her it was initially quite uncomfortable
wriggling into those short, tight provocative
dresses that barely covered her ass and those
impossible high heels by the time the movie was
finished she found it difficult to kick those
heels away. In fact, once she really got under
the skin of Erin,.
Julia to the amused surprise of her unit, was
not just dressing like Erin but even talking like
her. It’s one of her best performances yet
and Julia’s rooting for an Oscar...for herself!
It’s been a long ride for the slightly overweight,
carelessly rumpled, too tall, starry-eyed girl
who made her debut in Mystic Pizza. In a short
span of 10 years Julia has come a long way. “I’m
all grown-up now!” she dimples. And she’s
grown top love her profession, with all its ups
and downs. No way, would she be anywhere else
but in Hollywood, with the spotlight trained unblinkingly
on her. So what if people think she’s a bitch,
Erin Brokovich has taught her that you can take
that as a compliment too.
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