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Despite performances including a timeless role as Rizzo in Grease, and a host of awards, Stockard Channing could never please her mother. As she takes the stage in Dublin in a Wilde classic, she tells Barry Egan how she escaped her posh life to become an actress
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Despite performances including a timeless role as Rizzo in Grease, and a host of awards, Stockard Channing could never please her mother. As she takes the stage in Dublin in a Wilde classic, she tells Barry Egan how she escaped her posh life to become an actress
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Despite performances including a timeless role as Rizzo in Grease, and a host of awards, Stockard Channing could never please her mother. As she takes the stage in Dublin in a Wilde classic, she tells Barry Egan how she escaped her posh life to become an actress
2010
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She doesn't believe her mother even saw Grease -- the 1978 global smash-hit in which she played bad-girl uber-vamp Rizzo who corrupts virgin-queen Sandra Dee played by Olivia Newton-John. \"Hearing about it [Grease] was enough to make her take to her bed, and she all but stayed there for the rest of her life,\" until she died at the age of 93. She laughs that she is not entirely exaggerating when she says this is how her mother was. \"When I had got my fourth or fifth Emmy nomination, I went to her and I said: 'I've good news. I've got a nomination.' She said to me, 'Always a bridesmaid.'\" Her first marriage to [Walter Channing] was, she says, a case of marrying well into good Boston stock. When she went to meet Walter's uncle, he said: 'I believe you're a Roman Catholic?' He then nodded very graciously and told her: 'We've always approved of mixed marriages in our family.' I didn't know what he meant.\" He meant that they were Protestant and she was Irish Roman Catholic on her mother's side. \"I think Lady Bracknell is interesting,\" Channing says of her starring role. \"Do you know that Eagles song, Lyin' Eyes? She says she has no fortune of her own. She married this old rich guy and now she's paying for it. There's a bit of social paranoia there. She lives her life with all these rules and regulations she makes up with a tiny bit of frustration and a lot of energy.\"
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