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C12 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Friday, August 4, 1989 Albuquerque Native Gish Kicks Up Heels in 6hag' By Hillel Italie "She (Lillian. Gish) discouraged me from getting involved in the business. She said there was too much talent and not enough work and it was better to stay in an environment where you were loved and cared for." She followed with "Hiding Out' and appeared on television in "Hero in the Family," an ABC-Disney Sunday Night Movie. La'sf year, Gish stayed in Cedar Falls, finishing her high school education. This fall, instead of for the West Coast, she will begin classes at Duke University, i- "I've strived to maintain some normalcy in my life, groundedness" Gish said.

"If I had have moved out to L.A., which there were pressures to and started working right away and given up on my it-would have been so easy for me to be corrupted or eaten by sharks. My parents are like my--support system." "'T Annabeth Gish where you where loved and cared for." But the young Gish had her mind made up. She had been acting in community theater since Gish. "It kind of set my path in the right direction. When you're surrounded by people who are passionate about their work, it made all the difference.

I age 8 and fell in love with movies, especially the Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby," and Lillian Gish's silent classic "The mm Wind." You Can Save Hundreds Even She was soon playing real people and, in 1986, starred as the perceptive stepdaughter of an alcoholic (Jon Voight) in "Desert nil Jm Bloom." "Having that as my first experi ence was really a blessing," said mw Thousands of Dollars On All wood Kitchen Cabinets HOW? 2 WAYS 1) Buy Factory Direct. One of the Southwest's Largest Manufacturers. 2) All Cabinets Hand Made in our Modern Mexican Twin Plant. Factory Direct Savings 40 Made in Mexico Savings 25 Save As Much As 65 hi! fecp ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NEW-YORK In Cedar Falls, Iowa halfway across the country Hollywood lives a recent high school graduate with the perfect name for an actress: Annabeth Gish. Ann Albuquerque native who moved' with her family to Iowa when she was 3, the young actress shares the last name of one of the cinema's greatest stars, Lillian Gish," and decided quickly on a career in movies.

But walking the streets, she feels pretty much like any other resident, even if some have not forgotten last year's "Mystic Pizza," in which Gish playsTa'baby sitter who falls in love With the child's father. "I 'was baby-sitting for this family at the time," she recalled. "They saw this movie and 'Uh, oh." I got a lot of razzing about that. When you're in a high school environment and people1 are seeing you play an older Character having more mature things happen, it's pretty confusing." After her latest movie, "Shag," Iowans may be tempted to award bluCUbbons and break into dance upoospptting Gish. The actress plap; pudge Carmichael, one of fouHhigh school senior girls in 1963" who sneak off to Myrtle Beacl3.C., in search of a last adventure before going off to college and the "real" world.

The film's title comes from a popular dance that Pudge masters. "I read the script and just fell in love with the liveliness," Gish said in an interview. "I wanted to be a part of it, and did a lot of background on the Shag becuase I had never heard of it. It's a very big deal down in Myrtle Beach and it kept getting more and more fascinating." Gish's brief career in show business has also been far from Hollywood. "Desert Bloom," her film debut, was made in Tucson, while Mystic, was the setting for "Mystic Pizza." "Shag" was primarily filmed in Myrtle Beach.

"I went down a little bit earlier and had the luxury of learning from some authentic shaggers," said Gish, a proud member of the Shag Hall of Fame. "It was a different experience for them. I Sole Actress Annabeth Gish portrays Pudge Carmichael in "Shag." C9 mm By the time the aspiring actress turned 13, she was fully aware of her namesake and wrote for advice. "She discouraged me from getting involved in the business. She said there was too much talent and not enough work and it was better to stay in an environment NEW FURTHER MARKDOWNS 30 50 75 oft (0 think they were a little bit wary of what this Hollywood movie company was going to represent their dance as." The cast includes several relatives of Hollywood stars: Bridget Fonda is the daughter of Peter Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda; Tyrone Power Jr.

is the late actor's son; Page Hannah is Daryl Hannah's sister; and Carrie Hamilton is the daughter of Carol Burnett. But Gish is not related to Lillian Gish and set out to be an actress before even knowing the significance of her last name. "When I was in first grade I went to the Halloween parade as a movie star. When I was in third grade, I wrote that when I grow up I would like to be an actress in the movies. I was very into watching movies.

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