1 Celebrities as Teens

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3 Julia Roberts

4 J.R. to date – назначать свидание dazzling – ослепительный contest – конкурс

5 J.R. thrill – захватывающее событие jealous – ревнивый anxious – беспокойный

6 I grew up a nice Catholic girl in Smyrna, Georgia, a small southern town with friendly people. At Campbell High, I liked to run and laugh and have fun. I wanted to be a veterinarian, because we had tons of animals at home, but the idea of acting was kind of in my mind all the time.

7 I wasnt the most popular girl, though I had many friends and dated quite a bit. The guys I liked best were athletes. I wasnt a dazzling beauty, but I did make a finalist in the Miss Panthera beauty contest, which was a big thrill.

8 Other girls had heart-top lips, which made me so jealous. I also felt restless, without focus, anxious. Three days after graduation I moved to New York to learn how to act.

9 Sharon Stone

10 S.S. unbearably – невыносимый skinny – тощий intense – впечатлительный weird – причудливый, странный

11 S.S. immature – незрелый ahead – вперёд smart – остроумный, находчивый to skip – перепрыгивать

12 S.S. wheel – колесо grade – класс alien – инопланетянин

13 I was an ugly duckling, a tall, unbearably skinny, very intense, weird kid who wore thick glasses and had no sense of myself as a female. I was immature and naive, but I was always a great student.

14 And I skipped ahead in school. My parents and teachers knew I was smart, so they tested me like I was a hamster running on a wheel.

15 When I was fifteen and in the eleventh grade, I was going to high school half a day and a nearby college the other half. So I felt like an alien.

16 Richard Gere

17 R.G. a knife – нож suburban – сельский a drum – барабан a trumpet – труба

18 R.G. a wedding – свадьба to perform – выступать rebellious – протестующий

19 I wanted to be a biker. I had images in my head of punks, motocycles, leather jackets, knives, violence. Maybe because that was so different from my real life. Ours was a normal, middle-class suburban family with five kids.

20 We were Methodists, so there was a lot of singing in church. And we were all musical. I was really into piano, guitar, banjo. And drums. To earn spending money, I played trumpet in a dance band at weddings and bars.

21 At school, I usually performed too. But I was rebellious, everybodys bad boy. And I was a terrible student. I didnt go to classes, just read a lot. I was very much a dreamer.

22 Michelle Pfeiffer

23 M.P to alter – изменить direction – направление confident – уверенный

24 Its amazing when you are a kid how something can alter the direction of your life. I had a high- school teacher who said one simple thing to me: I think you have talent.

25 And I never forgot it, partly because while growing up, I got very few compliments. Now, I didnt at that moment think, Oh, Ill be an actress.

26 Still, I came to feel very confident in that world because of that simple comment.

27 Tom Cruise

28 T.C. beat-up – рекрутский pinto – пятнистый average – средний peer – пэр, лорд pressure – давление

29 Id never want to go back to high school. Not in a million years! When I was sixteen, my mother remarried and we lived in New Jersey.

30 I worked in an ice-cream store and dated in a beat-up green Pinto I bought for fifty dollars. I never planned to go to college because I was an average student and we didnt have a lot of money.

31 I hated peer pressure and not being invited to parties. And I was never part of a clicue.

32 Whitney Houston

33 At the first school I attended in New Jersey, I was ostracized. People just didnt like me. This was a time when black meant black power and Afros, and I was light-skinned with long hair, and my mothers insistence that I dress conservatively didnt help.

34 Everybody else wore jeans and ripped sweat-shirts, and there I was standing out in skirts and sweaters, a definite object for harassment. A bunch of girls used to chase me home. Then I transferred to a Catholic high school which was kind of strange, considering I am Baptist and sing in my church choir.

35 Eventually, I began cutting classes to take modeling assignments, and hanging out at all the Manhattan in spots. Between sixteen and eighteen, I partied my brains out. I was a party monkey. I wouldnt want to be in high school again.

36 W.H. to attend – посещать to ostracize – изгонять из общества light-skinned – светлокожий insistence – настойчивость

37 W.H. ripped – рваный a sweat-shirt – спортивный свитер definite – определённый harassment – беспокойство, тревога

38 W.H. a bunch – группа, компания to chase – прогонять, гнать to transfer – переходить to consider – считать

39 W.H. a choir – хор eventually – в конце концов an assignment – задание a spot – место

40 W.H. to party brains out – потерять мозги a party girl – девушка лёгкого поведения

41 Done by I.G. Antonenko April, 2011