Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Baker began her career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, performing in several of Sam Shepard's plays before getting her break in an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love opposite Ed Harris. Her recent projects include All the King's Men (2006) and The Jane Austen Book Club (2007).
She has appeared in numerous films including Edward Scissorhands (Joyce Monroe), The Right Stuff, Street Smart, Jacknife and Cold Mountain. As a small-town doctor in the David E. Kelley television series Picket Fences she won Emmy awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times in the show's four-year run (1993, 1995 and 1996).
Baker later re-teamed with Kelley, appearing in Boston Public as a teacher named Meredith Peters. Baker guest-starred in the premiere episode of the eighth season of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, playing the role of an ambitious mother of a city politician with a dark family secret. She also had a recurring role in Medium as Allison DuBois's mother-in-law, and another one in Tom Selleck's periodic Jesse Stone crime dramas as Rose, a small-town police officer.
Plot
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization. The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for suspicious behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey to meet US President Bush to clear his name.
Keywords: anti-muslim, anti-terrorism, asperger's-syndrome, autism, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, muslim, prejudice, racial-profiling, road-trip
An ordinary man, An extraordinary journey ... FOR LOVE.
Rizwan Khan: My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist.
Razia Khan: Remember one thing, son. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Good people who do good deeds. And bad people who do bad. That's the only difference in human beings. There's no other difference. Understood? What did you understand? Tell me. Tell me::Rizwan Khan: Good people. Bad people. No other difference.
Fund Raiser Receptionist: For dinner with the president is $500 you know?::Rizwan Khan: That's... that's $500::Fund Raiser Receptionist: What church are you from?::Rizwan Khan: Church? Church?::Fund Raiser Receptionist: This is a Christian's only event.::Rizwan Khan: But... but it says it's a fund raiser for the draught in Africa.::Fund Raiser Receptionist: For Christian's honey. [Giving the money back]::Rizwan Khan: Honey, honey keep it. For those who are not Christian in Africa.
Rizvan, Age 15: Zakir was fortunate. He could cry.
Rita Singh: The reason for my being so different was defined in just two words. Asperger's Syndrome.
Rizwan Khan: [first day selling] Mehnaz Herbal Beauty Products will make you glow like a newly-wed bride.::Woman: I'm divorced.::Rizwan Khan: Uh oh. We don't have anything for the newly-divorced.
Mama Jenny: Oh, you hungry child? You want a little dinner?::Rizwan Khan: No, I want lots of dinner.
Rizwan Khan: [eulogy] Sameer Rathod Khan, my son. Weight 56 kilogram, blood group O positive. Sameer loved Xbox and soccer. He loved his soccer shoes so much that he would sleep in them. That was the only bad habit he had.::Rizwan Khan: Sam was six years old when I married his mother. Sameer was a good son. He did not mind sharing his mom's love with me. But I couldn't be such a good dad to him. Other dads sense their children's unsaid needs and fulfill them. But I can't sense unexpressed feelings. So I couldn't fulfill them. But, but, Sam never complained. He never complained.::Rizwan Khan: Sam had one more bad habit. He always hid bad news from us. He would never tell me when my favorite team Manchester United lost. Never. Unless we had a bet. Then he would tell me. The I would have to give him his favorite mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Two scoops. Two scoops always. [laughs] Two scoops. On 27th November 2007, he was killed. [now crying] He was 13 years, nine months and four days old. Sameer was not only my son, he was my dearest friend. Actually, my... my only friend. My only best friend.
Zakir Khan: [to TV cameras] The question over here is, not why he's trying to meet the President. The question is, what's wrong in an ordinary citizen wanting to meet the President of his country? Or is it just wrong for a Muslim man to even try?
Rizwan Khan: Mama Jenny is right... this one I can't repair.
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Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
Keywords: actor, actor-director-writer, actor-playing-himself, actress, actress-playing-herself, based-on-true-story, bedroom, casting, competition, coworker-relationship
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This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.
Keywords: 1890s, accident, acropolis, american-flag, athens-greece, athlete, athletic-trainer, band, bandleader, bare-butt
Baron Pierre de Coubertin: [The problem of international cooperation] The Germans mistrust the French because we are starting the whole thing. The English mistrust the Germans on principle...
These girls want to play... with your funny bone!
A battle of the sexes... who'll end up on top?
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Mrs. Pringle and her son Rodney run a wig store which they stock by scalping young coeds who show up to look at the "room for rent." Meanwhile at the local college, Kathy is determined to figure out who is killing her classmates, much to boyfriend Dave's irritation. When her friend Dawn disappears, Kathy gets closer to the truth as she begins investigating the Pringle's lair.
Keywords: b-movie, blood, bloodbath, bodily-dismemberment, brutality, cruelty, cult-director, cult-film, curiosity, disembowelment
The most barbaric humor since the guillotine went out of style!
Oh Yes... Our Wigs Are Made From Genuine Human Hair, And How!
Won't you come into my parlor? I want you to meet THE GRUESOME TWOSOME
Think you've seen blood and gore? Think you've seen wild, way-out humor? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET!