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Sisters (1972)

Grace: I want to write about the apathy in the police force, 

about where the heroin goes after a bust,
about the fat political cats! 

Mrs. Collier: You don't have to shout right here on the street. 

What's the matter with you? I've never seen you like this. 

Grace: I'm on to something big! 

Mrs. Collier: Are you on diet pills again?

A happy 81 to actress Jennifer Salt, who's the lead in this incredible early De Palma movie and yet always gets overshadowed -- for obvious reasons, but still -- by Margot Kidder's deranged double performance as killer twins. I'm as guilty of it as anybody -- every time I sit down to re-watch the movie I'm like, "Oh right, her!" Which is mean of me because she's a lot of fun in the movie -- just in the not-quite-so-showy part. (Her and Kidder were roommates before they made it big.) Salt hasn't acted since 1990 but when she was acting she did lots of notable stuff, from Play It Again Sam to Brewster McCloud to Midnight f'ing Cowboy. (Her father won an Oscar for writing the latter's screenplay.) And here's something you might not know -- she's spent the past twenty-plus years being a producer on several Ryan Murphy projects including Nip/Tuck, Ratched, and American Horror Story! How great is that? She also co-wrote the script for Eat Pray Love! We love this for her.