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Sissy Spacek

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I removed the Sissy Spacek section -- nearly as long as the rest of the article -- as it doesn't belong here. I'm preserving the section here in case any part of it can be re-integrated (perhaps the quotes about living in Quitman?).

==Sissy Spacek==
The Oscar-winning actress, Sissy Spacek, was born in Quitman, TX on December 25, 1949. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek to Edwin and Virgina Spacek. Spacek grew up in the town and attended high school at Quitman High School and graduated in 1968. She was a popular girl growing up. In high school, Spacek won the Homecoming Queen of Quitman in 1967 and won the talent portion of the annual pageant, the Dogwood Pageant. On various interviews, the actress has said she loved growing up in the town and "Quitman is home to me," in which she said in a James Lipton interview on Inside the Actors Studio. Also in that interview, Spacek told where Quitman was located and shared her memories growing up. "It's a wonderful place. It's a wonderful place to grow up. I thought our little town was the center of the universe. How was I picked to live in this town in this state? Being from Texas is like being a member of a very exclusive club. I've always drawn a lot from my childhood." In the same interview, Spacek went on to talk about the mascot of Quitman, "the bulldogs," she said, and later she spoke about winning the talent in the pageant. In Spacek's Oscar winning role for Coal Miner's Daughter, she used a lot of her childhood memories from Quitman to play country singer Loretta Lynn. In 1977, Spacek hosted Saturday Night Live. During her opening monologue, she twirled a baton to the Quitman High School fight song.
Spacek has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress six times: Carrie (1976), Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), for which she won, Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986) and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other iconic movies include Prime Cut, The Straight Story, JFK and Four Christmases.
Spacek's newest film, Get Low opened at the beginning of August 2010. Spacek stars alongside Robert Duvall in the film which has talk of a possible Oscar nomination for Duvall, and also for Spacek. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.175.52.101 (talk) 22:04, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

area in sq. miles -- "all of it land."

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The sentence about this, ends with "a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.8 km²), all of it land." Please (humor me, and) excuse my ignorance, but is that supposed to mean "all of it dry land."? Like, meaning to imply, "as opposed to" lakes or ponds? or reflecting pools, or fish ranches? (and if that "guess" is correct, then why omit the word "dry"?) Even if that meaning ("dry" land) is correct, it was not obvious to me. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 18:36, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried doing a search for

+"all of it land"

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%2B%22all+of+it+land%22) and it got about 13,856 hits. Maybe there is some explanation, somewhere, about this WP custom? But since I don't know where that explanation is, some other readers might also be similarly ignorant. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 18:51, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Even http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/00ccdb/cc00_tabC1.pdf has a footnote ("2") that says, "2Dry land and land temporarily or partially covered by water." --Mike Schwartz (talk) 19:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Five months later... Good catch Mike, I have removed the offending qualifier, as I don't think it is correct. A look at the map shows that there are lakes within this city. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 02:33, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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