BEAUTIFUL GIRLS
I loved everything about this movie. I met a writer by the name of Scott Rosenberg at a party. I was sitting alone and kind of sad. He noticed and started talking to me. He was feeling the same way, and we came to realize it was for the same reason. Kurt Cobain had died that day. We bonded and became great friends.
He wrote "Beautiful Girls," and I was thrilled because he wrote a part for me, but I didn’t know which one. I read it and thought for sure it was the part Mira Sorvino played - the sweet and skinny girl. Nope, it was the voluptuous, slutty, bitch. Still don’t know how I feel about that (!), but I loved that part, and I got to make-out with Matt Dillon. Yeah, yeah, those scenes are awkward and lots of people are watching, and you’re just playing a part and the feelings aren’t real, and blah blah. I got to make out with Matt Dillon! Incidentally, Matt would have these long phone conversations with my mother! She was an Art Historian, a subject he was very much interested in. He would get suggestions about books to read. My mother thought he was quite the intellectual - a compliment she never even bestowed on me. 
Who knew??!!We filmed in Minneapolis. That city gets so cold, almost everything downtown is connected by tunnels so you don’t have to go outside! I was working really hard then. I worked seven days a week because while I was shooting this, I was also filming "Picket Fences" in Los Angeles, and "Sabrina" in New York. In fact, I had a scary episode with my health. I got so sick one night that I had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance! It turned out to be exhaustion, and I had always thought that ailment wasn’t real. It is. I stayed in the hospital a couple of days, and the cast and director would all visit me. Good people.
I will miss Ted Demme the director, I wanted to work for him again and again. I became very close to the actor Noah Emmerich, and facilitated him getting to star opposite Jim [Carrey] in the "The Truman Show." Tim Hutton - that became the first of three times we worked together, and Rosie O’Donnell? Little did I know that years later she would help me adopt my first son. It was a special experience for me.
