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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (Alicia Christian Foster), 1962-, American actress, b. Los Angeles. A child model, she began acting in TV commercials at three, appeared on various TV shows, and made her screen debut in Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Her first important role was as the barely adolescent pros... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Jodie Foster"

Foster, Jodie
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Foster, Jodie (1962– ) US film actress and director. Foster was a precocious talent. In 1976, aged 13, she received an Academy nomination for her role in Taxi Driver . She has won two best... Read more
Jodie Foster
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Alicia Christian Foster), 1962-, American actress, b. Los Angeles. A child model, she began...on the trail of a serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Foster's other films include Bugsy Malone (1976), Carny (1980), Sommersby... Read more
Louis Malle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...career of at least one filmmaker: Jodie Foster. "As a young moviegoer and aspiring...at's it. That's what I want to do, "' Foster wrote in a tribute to Malle in Premier magazine following his death. Foster's directorial debut, Little Man Tate... Read more
Martin Scorsese
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...collaborations in modern film. Years later in 1981, Taxi Driver gained some notoriety when John Hinckley, Jr. claimed that Jodie Foster's role in the film was his inspiration for trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. Scorsese also began directing... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Jodie Foster"

Foster, Jodie
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers FOSTER, Jodie Nationality: American. Born: Alicia Christian...xE9; rama (Paris), 22 February 1995. "Jodie Foster Goes 'Home' for Her Second Feature," interview...Biography , Chicago, 1995. Kennedy, Philippa, Jodie Foster: A Life on Screen , New York, 1996. Smolen... Read more
Jody
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Jody ♂, ♀ Of uncertain origin. It may have originated as a pet form of Jude and/or Judith . Variants : Jodie (associated particularly with the American actress Jodie Foster, b. 1962 as Alicia Christian Foster); Jodi . Read more
The Silence of the Lambs
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Christopher Newman, John Fundus, Alan Snelling. Cast: Jodie Foster ( Clarice Starling ); Anthony Hopkins ( Hannibal Lecter...Demme , Carbondale,1996. Smolen, Diane, The Films of Jodie Foster , Secaucus, 1996. Articles: Variety (New York), 11 February... Read more
Hunter, Holly
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Beth Henley's The Wake of Jamey Foster , and the playwright was suitably...Monahan); Home for the Holidays (Jodie Foster) (as Claudia Larson) 1996 Crash...no. 634, 1993. Interview with Jodie Foster, in Interview (New York), November... Read more
Taxi Driver
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...David Nichols; creative consultant: Sandra Weintraub. Cast: Robert De Niro ( Travis Bickle ); Cybill Shepherd ( Betsy ); Jodie Foster ( Iris ); Harvey Keitel ( Sport ); Leonard Harris ( Charles Palantine ); Peter Boyle ( Wizard ); Albert Brooks ( Tom... Read more
Chaplin, Geraldine
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1995 Para recibir el canto de los pajaros ( The Bird's Singing ) (Sanjines) (as Catherine); Home for the Holidays (Jodie Foster) (as Aunt Glady) 1996 Jane Eyre (Zeffirelli) (as Miss Scatcherd); Gulliver's Travels (Sturridge — for TV) (as... Read more
Crowe, Russell
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...as Jeffrey Wigand) 2000 Gladiator (Scott) (as Maximus Decimus Meridius); Proof of Life (Hackford) 2001 Flora Plum (Jodie Foster) Publications By CROWE: articles — "Coming on Strong," interview with David Wild, in Us Weekly (New York), no... Read more
Kinski, Nastassja
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Cinema (West Germany), November 1979. Interview with Andy Warhol, in Inter/View (New York), August 1980. Interview with Jodie Foster, in Film Comment (New York), September/October 1982. Interview, in Photoplay (London), September 1983. Interviews, in... Read more
Moore, Demi
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Pinup," interview with Michael Angeli, in Esquire (New York), May 1993. "Table Talk," panel discussion with Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Nancy Griffin, in Premiere (New York), Winter 1993 (Special Issue: Women in Hollywood). Interview with Mim Udovitch... Read more
Isham, Mark
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...album under a new contract with Virgin Records. Isham has written scores for films featuring major stars such as the Jodie Foster vehicles Little Man Tate (1991) and Nell (1994), but he has also worked with innovative, sound-oriented directors such... Read more

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Jodie Foster not `Brave' enough.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Movie review)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 9/14/2007; 481 words ; ...can't redeem a bad script. Jodie Foster seems to have focused on commercial...law into one's own hands. Foster plays Erica, host of a self-indulge...roll. It's a shame, because Foster turns in yet another good...also represents a waste of Foster's talents. Where once she...minutes ART: ... Read more
Evan Rachel Wood: not since 12-year-old Jodie Foster's turn in Taxi Driver has a kid made jaws drop the way Evan Rachel Wood did in last year's Thirteen. But that was just the beginning.(Newcomer On Everyone's Lips)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 3/1/2004; ; 244 words ; ...Thirteen. The wide-eyed beauty electrified moviegoers as a Pollyanna seduced by the wrong crowd, and just like her idol, Jodie Foster, in Taxi Driver (1976), she inspired near-messianic expectations among audiences of great things to come. Rewind a year... Read more
Emile Hirsch: emboldened by Brando and fostered by Foster, this young actor is a heavyweight in the making.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; With his stirring movie debut in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) opposite Jodie Foster, Kieran Culkin, and Vincent D'Onofrio (his interviewer here), Emile Hirsch, with his soft eyes and hard-to-forget talent, established... Read more
Nell.
Magazine article from: National Review; 2/6/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...co-produced by its star, Jodie Foster, as the ultimate...glorification of Miss Foster. She gets to play...a teenager ( My, Jodie, how young you look...real-life spouse ( My, Jodie, how selflessly you...growing family as a Foster child. Several things... Read more
Home alone. (the movie Contact and NASA findings about alien existence)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; In the new space movie Contact, Jodie Foster plays an idealistic astronomer...character than Forrest, despite Jodie Foster's restrained and generally tormented...SETI and determined to undermine Jodie Foster's program; needless to say he is... Read more
(book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 5/27/1997; ; 543 words ; ...to the new biography of Jodie Foster written by her brother...Perhaps most astonishing is Foster's can-did commentary on...I have always assumed Jodie was gay or bisexual, but...meticulous research of Jodie Foster's career is matched by... Read more
Holly Hunter.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...the intriguing combination of Holly Hunter directed by Jodie Foster. The movie is the story of a single mom, played by Hunter...chicks and a bitch, sitting around talking discipline. JODIE FOSTER: Did you ever have dogs? HOLLY HUNTER: I've never had... Read more
Kristen Stewart: tired of table-dancing dilettantes and fluff-shilling prima donnas? Here's the wolf-taming, heartbreaking, real-deal antidote.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...recently divorced woman played by Jodie Foster in David Fincher's claustrophobic...everything. There's a scene where Jodie Foster takes a minute to go pee, and you...Panic Room because she looks like Jodie Foster. But it was actually Nicole Kidman... Read more
Unglued.(The Brave One)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/16/2007; ; 612 words ; ...lacerating opening section. Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) is a New York disc jockey who dedicates...as you're likely to see this year. Foster, who can be a curiously distanced...Taxi Driver (1976). That movie made Foster famous at age 12 for playing Iris... Read more
(movie review)
Magazine article from: Interview; 3/1/2002; ; 61 words ; Directed by David Fincher Jodie Foster stars in this claustrophobic horror film from Fincher, the director...anxiety--sexual, physical, racial or economic. Here, single mom Meg (Foster) retreats with daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) to a secret room... Read more