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“I had to become the father of my family very young because my parents divorced when I was 12. My situation was a little bit unusual in that my father kind of disappeared, and I had been making a fair amount of money as a kid, doing commercials and television and film. We needed money, and I kind of became the breadwinner. But I had this amazing world that I had access to, which was the world of the entertainment industry. My mom was supportive of my taking over and saying, "This is, I think, what we need to do." She liked the idea of moving to New York, so we moved to New York when I was 17 with a play that I had gotten. Then she got cancer and became really sick, so I had to take care of her full time. That lasted for about eight years, and then she died when I was 25. That was a rough go. At the same time, I had an amazing other world, and my ...
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Cady McClain, Mia Funk, Peter O'Toole, River Phoenix, Michael Knight, James Mitchell, Ruth Warwick, Eileen Hurley, Mary Fickett, Tamara Tunie, Michelle Ine, Austin Pendleton, Wallace Stevens, Este Negi, Gabrielle Berridge, Walter John Thompson, Ryan