Sally Field makes it halfway up “The EW 100″
I’ve fallen way behind in reading my issues of Entertainment Weekly, and so only this weekend caught up with the June issue that listed “The EW 100 - The Stars We Love Right Now.”
Coming in at #58? Nora Walker herself, Sally Field.
Here’s what the magazine had to say about the Brothers & Sisters mother, under the title “Modern Matriarch”:
AGE 60 WHY HER She’s the undisputed star of ABC’s Brothers & Sisters and a slam dunk (we hope) for an Emmy nomination next month. Field plays the widowed mother of five who still wrestles with the legacy of her lying, cheating man. GIDGET U. Having started her 40-year-plus career right out of high school, Field never studied acting. ”Part of me looks back now and wishes I could have done theater in college and then lived in New York as an actor. But that was not my row to hoe.” YOU’VE GOT MALES ”The minute I would have a man in my life, I would lose any thought of anything else,” says Field, who is twice divorced and was once romantically linked with Smokey and the Bandit costar Burt Reynolds. ”Luckily, I never lost the burning desire to be a good actor. It always saved my life.” RETURNING TO THE FRAY The two-time Oscar winner had to think about taking the B&S role after her 2002 series The Court was yanked by ABC after three weeks. ”Failure is failure. But to be handled in such an unprofessional way — that burned my boat. But I’m a fan of [B&S creator] Robby Baitz’s playwriting, and I loved what he had to say.”
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, Sally Field, Nora Walker, Entertainment Weekly
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