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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

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Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 film based on the novel Girl, Interrupted by , about her experiences in a psychiatric hospital. Directed by James Mangold . Novel written by Susanna Kaysen, and screenplay also by James Mangold. Sometimes the only way to...


Author Biography

Name: Susanna Kaysen
Birth Date: November 11, 1948
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Susanna Kaysen
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"People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy." Thus begins Susanna Kaysen's notable 1993 memoir of her two-year...


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Girl, Interrupted Information
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Girl, Interrupted is a 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In the book, Kaysen relates her experiences as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. The memoir's title is taken from the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music....


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Jolie says Pearl film is `very real'
4/19/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
Angelina Jolie is no stranger to media frenzy. But while filming "A Mighty Heart" in Mumbai, India, last fall, the actress says things got out of hand.She blames the paparazzi for creating mayhem at a school where she was shooting scenes for the movie.Her bodyguards...
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Jolie: `We have family sleep on Sundays'
6/5/2007: 444 words, approx. 2 pages
Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work."I have no animosity toward Hollywood or the demands of the red carpet, all that silliness," Jolie, 32, tells Esquire magazine in its upcoming July issue....
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Jolie collects award for 'Mighty Heart'
2/3/2008: 441 words, approx. 2 pages
Angelina Jolie traveled up the California coast to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's "Performance of the Year" award.The 32-year-old actress was honored Saturday for her portrayal of Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in the film "A Mighty Heart." It's one...
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Celebrity birthdays
10/31/2007: 675 words, approx. 2 pages
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 4-10:Nov. 4: Former CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite is 91. Actress Doris Roberts ("Everybody Loves Raymond") is 77. Actress Loretta Swit ("MASH") is 70. Singer Harry Elston of Friends of Distinction is 69. Singer Delbert McClinton is 67....
 


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Girl Interrupted
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Girl, Interrupted
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Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen is an autobiographical novel by a troubled teen that has attempted suicide, and admits herself into a hospital where she is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. While in the hospital, Susanna meets a self-interested, unpredictable, sociopath, Lisa Rowe, who in the end unintentionally teaches Kaysen how important it is to be responsible and grateful for life.


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