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Tales of a desperate housewife

October 2, 2005　BY CINDY PEARLMAN

Julianne Moore isn't shy about airing her dirty laundry in public. In fact, the story she's about to tell reeks of personal details.

"This summer, we rented this little house by the beach. It was me, my husband Bart, and our two kids. All I can say is I did more laundry than I ever thought was possible," says the famous redhead.

"My son likes to play in his socks outside. Every five minutes, I'm like, 'Those socks are filthy. Hand them over right now.' Suddenly, I'd be standing there with another mound of laundry."

Call her an Oscar-nominated desperate housewife.

Moore plays a desperate housewife of another era in "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," which opened Friday. Based on a true story, Moore plays Evelyn Ryan, a woman who enters several national jingle-writing contests in the 1950s in order to help feed her 10 children while her hard-drinking husband (Woody Harrelson) digs them into financial holes.

"There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them," Moore says. "It was actually brilliant marketing."

Moore's character Evelyn is a former newspaper writer who juggles her kids and a husband who wanted to be a singer. A freak accident ruins his voice and destroys his spirit. That's why he spends the little money he makes at the liquor store.

"It's all on one woman who doesn't even have a job to feed and raise her 10 children. Can you believe it? Ten children," Moore says. "I pat myself on the back that I have two children, a job, and I'm doing OK. I'm managing. This woman was astonishing. She had all the stress and no help. She couldn't work outside the home, but had to find a way for her children to eat.

"The amazing thing is that this woman never gets really depressed," Moore says. "She feels confident. You watch her being able to handle anything."

Evelyn's true problems arise from her husband, who kills her joy. Each time she wins a refrigerator, a shopping spree, or even cash from her jingles, he finds a way to ruin the moment, including beating her new deep freezer with a bat.

"Finally, she says what I think is the most profound line of the movie between this husband and wife," Moore says. "She says, 'I don't need you to make me happy. I need you to leave me alone when I am.'

"The movie basically says that you have to create your own happiness. You also have to express yourself even if you don't seem to have an outlet, which is why this woman wrote jingles for contests."

The real Evelyn died in 1998. Moore was able to talk to several of her children to get a handle on the character.

"The kids even came to the set," Moore says. "And they brought Evelyn's grandchildren. Her best friend, who is still alive, came to the set. This is the friend who took Evelyn to buy her first pantsuit at J.C. Penney, which was a big deal."

Moore says the idea of playing a prize-winner was a bit foreign to her.

"Once, I won $246 in a slot machine," she says. "I didn't even enter contests as a kid. I did once send away for a Captain Crunch watch, but it never came."

What might be coming Moore's way in the coming months is a little statue named Oscar. There's buzz she might get a Best Actress nod for either "Prize Winner" or the upcoming "Freedomland," based on the Richard Price novel. In that film, Moore plays Brenda Martin, a single mother who accuses a man from the projects of kidnapping her young daughter, who is now feared dead. Her accusations spark a racial explosion. The film also stars Samuel L. Jackson as the detective on the case and Edie Falco as a woman who looks for missing children.

"Basically, I play a white woman who walks into a black hospital in the middle of the night and says she was carjacked by a black man," she says. "It's about class division and poverty. In the end, it's really about how alike we are as human beings."

A big bonus for Moore was she got to work on her home turf of New York City. "It was fantastic to star in an urban, East Coast story. We shot in Brooklyn, and I was home every single night, which was really fantastic. I couldn't have been happier," she says.

The other bonus was working with Jackson. "I don't think there is anyone cooler than Sam Jackson," she says. "At the end, he not only gave me a Kangol hat, which made me feel cool, but he also gave me a necklace with my initials on the front and his on the back."

As for the Oscar buzz, Moore sighs.

"All I really want is for people to enjoy my movies," she says. "I want my work to be good, regardless of the other stuff like awards." In another breath, she adds, "Of course, you can't help but get caught up in the Oscar mania. But I think of it like hair."

An explanation is in order.

"OK, if you had a hairdo that you liked, but everyone hated your hair, including your man, then you'd be sad. It's the same thing with movies. I love these movies and if someone else likes them, too, then I'll just be thrilled.

"I won't lie," she says. "I want to be in movies that everyone likes."

In 2003, Moore married director Bart Freundlich, the father of her son Cal, 7, and daughter Liv, 3. Freundlich also directed Moore in "Trust the Man," an upcoming film starring David Duchovny.

At home, neither focuses on Hollywood. "It's all about the kids," she says. "Cal is a big boy now and very much into sports. He's adorable. Liv is so cute, and she wants to be like Mommy."

Moore sounds very much like any working mother when she laments packing her bags after this interview.

"I leave for London tonight and I'll be all by myself. It's awful," she says. "Of course, the first few days are great. I'll watch TV, hang out, read. But then I miss my family so terribly.

"The toughest part is the second night, when my daughter will call and say, 'Where are you, Mom? Are you coming home tomorrow?' And you have to say, 'Not yet, honey.'

"I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks," she says.

Distributed by Big Picture News

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Julianne Moore knows how to play house

Actress looks for truth behind '50s role

By Beth Pinsker, Globe Correspondent | October 9, 2005

NEW YORK -- When Julianne Moore had back-to-back showcase roles as '50s housewives in 2002, it seemed like a bad career move, like she was inviting typecasting and cutting herself off from the big-budget love story world after years of wonderful independent films. Then she got Oscar nominations for both films -- a supporting nod for the suicidal mother in ''The Hours" and a best actress one for the perfect suburbanite unmoored by her husband's homosexuality in ''Far From Heaven" -- and suddenly her choices seemed a stroke of genius.

She has played contemporary roles in two major releases since then -- in the thriller ''The Forgotten" and the romantic comedy ''Laws of Attraction" -- but what might take her back to the Academy Awards is another '50s housewife. In ''The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," which opens Friday, her character, Evelyn Ryan, is a defiant optimist who faces raising 10 children in poverty without much help from an alcoholic husband and ends up supporting them by winning a steady stream of jingle contests. The story is spry and jubilant despite its undercurrent of desperation, and Moore shows a fiery determination behind her long-suffering, pasted-on smile.

At this point, the 45-year-old actress is not worried at all about typecasting.

''What's different about this role is that it's based on a true story," she says, in a hotel suite in New York, where she's dressed casually in gray jeans and a gauzy green shirt over a white camisole. ''The responsibility is entirely different. It's about how you bring the character to life in your own way while remaining faithful to the spirit of who she was."

The director of the film, Jane Anderson (''Normal"), didn't worry at all about putting the redhead into any kind of iconic role. ''I don't consider it repetition at all. There are dozens of stories that are completely different from each other that can be told," she says.

Moore's husband, the director Bart Freundlich, speaking earlier during an interview at the Toronto Film Festival, thinks these roles are just in the cards because his wife is an expert at communicating what's below the surface. ''There's not a lot of opportunity for women of that generation in these films to express themselves verbally or make any big movements," said Freundlich. ''They don't slap anyone or yell; they are always perfect. But Juli's able to communicate the brokenness -- the complexity -- behind that."

Anderson describes a scene in the film where Moore was able to do just that, with an added degree of dignity that amazed her. After Evelyn wins a shopping spree at a supermarket, she's sitting at her kitchen table with all the kids, trying all sorts of foreign delicacies she picked, such as caviar and artichoke hearts. Her husband, played by Woody Harrelson, is expressing his wounded pride at having his wife provide all of their luxuries; he grouses and starts to get violent. The scene was supposed to end after he throws half the contents of the freezer into the backyard, but Anderson kept the cameras rolling, and Moore started improvising.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050921/review_nm/review_film_prize_dc_1

Julianne Moore's 'Prize' a winner
By Sheri Linden
Wed Sep 21, 7:09 PM ET


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Toward the end of "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," Julianne Moore's plucky homemaker uncharacteristically snaps at her ne'er-do-well husband that she's no saint.

Perhaps not, but she comes pretty darn close. Writer-director Jane Anderson has adapted Terry Ryan's best-selling valentine to her remarkable mom, subtitled "How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less," into a spirited comic drama, toplined by Moore's lovely performance. "Prize Winner" should be a leading entry, especially with females and older audiences.

Evelyn Ryan was an ardent member of a midcentury subculture called contesting, peopled mainly by word-savvy American housewives who entered the myriad jingle and slogan contests advertisers used to promote their products. In her case, it was less diversion than career, the cash and merchandise keeping her family afloat. It wasn't merely that Evelyn had six sons and four daughters to feed; counting her alcoholic husband (well played by Woody Harrelson), she had 11 kids. Anderson ("The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom," "Normal") neither skirts nor belabors the story's dark issues while kicking up some fun with the sloganeering.

At the film's outset, a $5,000 prize arrives just as the Ryans need to find a new place to live, providing the down payment on a clapboard house. But Evelyn, who earned the money, can keep her prim white gloves on at the bank; she's not invited to sign the mortgage. This is 1956, when Miss America contestants confidently proclaim that women are too high-strung and emotional to hold national office.

Evelyn's unspoken indignation is clear, but her most extraordinary traits are a steadfast resilience and Zen-like devotion to the here and now, never lingering long enough in trying situations to feel put-upon or become bitter. And the trying moments are plentiful, from her weekly go-rounds forestalling creditors like the milkman (Simon Reynolds) to the nightly drinking binges of her husband, Kelly, which often turn violent. Self-reliance is her only choice; the cops tell her he'll sleep it off, and the priest (David Gardner) advises her to make a better home.

A one-time aspiring journalist, Evelyn doesn't coddle her needy husband but has limitless empathy for the stylish crooner's fall from grace into the "ranks of ordinary men" as a factory machinist. A cavernous freezer Evelyn wins provokes Kelly's rage because it's a constant reminder of his inability to fill it. While she happily brainstorms couplets, he offers a few self-loathing jingles. But Harrelson also provides evidence of the charmer who once romanced this bright woman.

Evelyn's only support system, besides her kids, is a group of high-achieving contesters who call themselves the Affadaisies and help each other craft haikus to consumerism. A writers workshop posing as a coffee klatch, the out-of-the-house adventure has an immediate effect on Evelyn, who stands up to Kelly with renewed vigor upon her return home (and comes up with a jingle in the process). It would have been good to see more of the Affadaisies, especially when Laura Dern plays the club's leader.

Contemporary audiences used to psychologizing might write off as denial Evelyn's cheeriness in the face of Kelly's spiteful anger. But Moore, whose luminosity has often graced more brittle, troubled characters, brings to life something deeper and wiser, something almost subversive in her character's refusal to be damaged. The film deftly avoids sappiness until Evelyn's everything-is-possible speech to daughter Tuff (Ellary Porterfield, well cast as the author, who has no Daddy's-girl sympathy for Kelly).

Ace design contributions from Edward T. McAvoy and Hala Bahmet re-create the period with verisimilitude and flair, particularly in the joyous set piece of a grocery store shopping spree -- just one of the fabulous prizes Evelyn Ryan won for her family.


Cast:

Evelyn Ryan: Julianne Moore
Kelly Ryan: Woody Harrelson
Bruce Ryan (age 16): Trevor Morgan
Tuff Ryan (ages 13, 16, 18): Ellary Porterfield
Dortha Schaefer: Laura Dern
Ray the Milkman: Simon Reynolds
Father McCague: David Gardner
Mrs. Bidlack: Susan Merson
Rog Ryan (age 13): Erik Knudsen.
Director-screenwriter: Jane Anderson; Based on the memoir "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less" by: Terry Ryan; Producers: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis; Executive producer: Marty Ewing; Director of photography: Jonathan Freeman; Production designer: Edward T. McAvoy; Music: John Frizzell; Costume designer: Hala Bahmet; Editor: Robert Dalva.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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