 life without Hollywood. We didn’t need that.” When they finally settled on Bullock, the producers asked if she could meet Tuohy “to see your face before she inks the deal.”
“What part of this confused you?” Tuohy remembers blurting back. “I should have had the sense to go, ‘It’s going to cost you.’” Instead, she set her own ground rules: No entourage. No scenes. No Hollywood attention. “Your
people need to go away.”
Bullock listened, wore a baseball cap and sunglasses (as Tuohy had suggested) and the two got to go everywhere, unnoticed.
“She was always very quiet, not interjecting her opinions. She was a student of the game.”
The two got to be close friends and, on the night of the Oscars, the Tuohys sat four rows behind Bullock, when she was named Best Actress.
“She expected me to Erin Brockovich her and run up on stage. I was not going to do that. I watched that lady work her ass off. I wasn’t going to ruin her moment. When she got on stage, she looked at me and said, ‘This is the time you chose to be quiet?’ And I was. I was very respectful. I didn’t want to be some redneck white trash from Tennessee.”
Today, the two Leigh Annes still talk, still laugh about their moment in time.
Even better, “all of the kids are great,” Tuohy says with pride. “Michael was with the Ravens for five years. Then he was with the Tennessee Titans and that was a disaster. But now he’s happy to be with the Panthers. He said the minute he got there he felt it was the right spot.”
Life after football? “We talk about that all the time,” Tuohy says. “He does things with his dad, but I think he’ll lead a philanthropic life after it’s over. He always talks about having a place for kids to go, kids who live off the streets and aren’t raised in a country club. They need an environment that has their back, that loves them. I think that’s the direction we’ll see him go.”
And Leigh Anne? As much as she enjoys fluffing things at her children’s home, it’s unlikely she’ll return to interior design.
She has other worlds to redo.
“I pray every day we find a cure for stupidity,” Tuohy says without drawing a breath. “People look at others and say, ‘That’s a black man’ or ‘That’s a fat woman’ or ‘That’s a gay guy.’ They can’t see past labels. They’ve got to get over that. Just because someone is different doesn’t make them wrong and you right.”This adapter is used on the Kodak Instamatic M80, M85 and M95 dual 8 movie projectors. You must use this adaper to be able to show Super 8 film. These are used parts and are guarenteed fo 1 year.ONE CALL DOES IT ALL is the driving force behind Connections to Care, an innovative approach to meeting seniors' diverse and complex healthcare needs. A single phone call to (855) 227-3745 connects directly to the Los Angeles Jewish Home's expert professional staff to access our award-winning in-home, community health, and residential programs and services.
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In Gaza, the promise of a lull in Israeli air and artillery strikes emboldened youngsters on bicycles to ride closer than usual to the border fence. Militants often launch rockets and mortar shells from the area, drawing Israeli fire in response.
The truce — meant to last six months — took effect early yesterday between Israel and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
The ceasefire, which Egypt labored for months to conclude, obliges Hamas to halt attacks from its territory and says Israel must cease its raids. If the quiet holds, Israel will ease its blockade of Gaza on Sunday to allow the shipment of some supplies to resume. A week later Israel is to further ease restrictions at cargo crossings.
Sderot, less than 1.5km from the Gaza frontier, has borne the brunt of Palestinian attacks over the past seven years, during which rocket and mortar fire has killed 13 people, wounded dozens more, caused millions of dollars in damage and made daily life unbearable. More than 1,000 projectiles have exploded in the town of around 20,000 people over the past year alone.
Yesterday morning, one local man who did not give his name, showed reporters his brand new car, hit by a mortar shell the day before as it stood outside his house. With only 100km on the clock, its windows were blown out and the bodywork gouged and ripped by shrapnel. The house and its occupants were unscathed.
Another resident, Motti Lishar, said he was confident that Hamas, which rules Gaza with an iron hand, would keep militants in line.
Dropping his granddaughter at a neighborhood kindergarten, Eliezer Ashurov said he hoped for the best, but feared the worst.
Across the border in Gaza, civilians have also paid dearly for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with women, children and the elderly repeatedly caught in crossfire or killed in Israeli strikes aimed at nearby militant targets.
Six-year-old Hadeel al-Smari was killed last week by a missile fired from an Israeli aircraft in the southern