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Molly Ringwald as Charity Hope Valentine
Hollywood pink. Eager to transition to
adult roles, she made a series of flops.
Ringwald was depressed by the work
and by her life in a vast Mulholland
Drive home that felt as empty as her
prospects. She felt rejected by the film
industry — and by a boyfriend with
whom she was involved in an unful-
filling relationship. Her solution, at age
23, was to sell her home, to place her
belongings in storage and to accept
an offer to star in a modest film in
Paris. She intended to return home to
become an average co-ed at USC.
"But it was summertime, it was
beautiful, I fell in love and it finally
seemed that there were tons of pos-
sibilities in the world:' she recalled. "I
felt like I could do whatever I wanted
— I could even stop acting — which
is exactly how you should feel at that
age."
She married her now ex-husband, a
French writer, and eventually resumed
acting, mostly in dreadful films such
as 1995's straight-to-video Malicious
(she played a knife-wielding psycho).
Returning to the stage ultimately
saved her. In 1999, she landed the
female lead in the Los Angeles pro-
duction of Paula Vogel's controversial
incest drama, How I Learned to Drive.
Ringwald, now 38, went on to star in
a London production of When Harry
Met Sally; Jonathan Larson's chamber
musical, Tick, Tick ... Boom!; and as
Sally Bowles in director Sam Mendes'
hit revival of Cabaret. Critics raved
about how Ringwald's vulnerability-
factor made Bowles' travails all the
more heartbreaking.
Since then, her personal life has
also come together. She now lives
in a fifth-floor East Village walk-up
with her partner, a Greek writer, and
their 2-year-old daughter, Mathilda.
Theatergoers may be surprised
Ringwald can sing, but she's been
doing it since before she could talk.
When she was a baby, her mother
noticed her perfect pitch and alerted
dad, a blind jazz musician. By age
3, Molly was performing with her
father's Great Pacific Jazz Band.
Molly stood out in a different way
— as a Protestant in her predomi-
nantly Jewish Valley neighborhood.
"My sister was the biggest wan-
nabe Jew of all time, because all our
friends were Jewish and lived in what
they called 'Hebrew Heights, while we
lived in the 'Christian flatlands," she
said. Ringwald became obsessed with
preparing the kugel recipe she learned
from a classmate at age 9.
As for her current and future career,
she denies she has selected less-
than-wholesome roles, like Charity,
to change her pesky, lingering '80s
persona.
"I did that when I was younger, but
now I just do the work I am drawn
to;' she insisted. "What interests me is
how characters are flawed, and how
they survive in the world. Charity, [for
example], is kind of broken, but she's
put back together in a really great
way)) II
Sweet Charity runs at Detroit's
Fisher Theatre 8 p.m. Tuesdays-
Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays
and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, May
1-20. $38-$78. Information: (313)
872-1000; tickets: by phone, (248)
645-6666; online at
www.broadwayindetroit.com or
www.ticketmaster.com .
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