M also oversees the high school election procedure, and when he discovers that over-achiever Tracy Flick is running unopposed for school president, he decides to encourage Paul Warren, a good student and popular member of the football team, to run against her. M, tries to engage his students on these issues, asking “How are private virtue and public responsibility intertwined?” Mr. Popular high school social studies teacher Jim McAllister, aka Mr. Locally, the members of a high school football team stand accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl with Down syndrome. Bush and his own record of sexual indiscretions. It’s 1992 and Bill Clinton is running against both George H.W. The national presidential election and a horrifying local crime provide the backdrop for Election. One might not think that a high school election for student government president could be so interesting, shocking and thought provoking, but Perrotta takes the reader into the surprising and sometimes sordid lives of a few high school teachers and students as they prepare for the student government election and watch their personal lives unravel. Author Tom Perrotta employs a variety of characters as narrators recalling the events of a few short weeks in the spring of 1992. But I can say that this is a really fun read, and pretty quick.
#TRACY FLICK MOVIE#
The movie version of this novel came out in 1999, and I have never seen it in full so I cannot tell you how faithful it is to the book. Gone Girl (2014) and Wild (2014), for which she got nominated for best actress Oscar again for her role as Cheryl Strayed.Cbr12bingo adaptation, Bingo #3 (vertical, Music to Violet) In December 2010, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. InĢ006, she took home the best actress Oscar for her role asĢ000s and early 2010s, Reese continued to star in more romantic comedies, such as Four Christmases (2008) and How Do You Know (2010). Which went on to gross over $100 million dollars at the box office. The next year, she scored a follow-up hit
Was huge box-office smash and established Reese as one of the topįemale draws in Hollywood. Her breakthrough role came as Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy, Those bigger roles came in movies such asĬruel Intentions (1999). Roles to star in two major motion pictures:įilm was a huge box-office success, they did help to establish Reese asĪ rising starlet in Hollywood and open the door for bigger and betterįilm roles. However, her collegiate plans were shortly dashed when she accepted Following high school graduation in 1994 from Harpeth Hall, a NashvilleĪll girls school, Reese decided to put her acting career on hold andĪttend Stanford University where she would major in English literature. Her role as a 14-year old tomboy earned her rave reviews. In 1990, she landed her first major acting role in At age 11, she placed first in a Ten-State Reese was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age.Īt age 7, she began modeling. Shortly after, the family moved back to the USA & settled in Nashville, Tennessee.
Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army reserves. Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on Main New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon.
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