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Blab Blab Blab: Segel and Rudd?H'wood's Cutest Couple?

EOnline.com - Found Jun. 15, 2009
Sarsgaard','Peter Strauss','Phil Hartman','Phil Mcgraw','Phil Spector','Philip Seymour Hoffman','Phoebe Cates','Phylicia Rashad','Pia Zadora...

Posted on June 15, 2009, 7:45 am

Girl Power: 10 Raunch Comedies That Needed Their Women

Cinema Blend - Found Jun. 11, 2009
Fast Times at Ridgemont High Phoebe Cates and her red bikini and Sean Penn and his smoked-out van might be the most enduring images from Fast...

Posted on June 11, 2009, 8:17 am

Around Hear: Snake Handlers Debut

Cleveland Scene - Found Jun. 17, 2009
Kent's the Phoebe Cates and the Party of Helicopters played one-off reunion shows on Friday, June 12, at the Beachland Tavern (15711 Waterloo...

Posted on June 17, 2009, 3:50 am

Drop Dead Fred to Rise from the Dead

About - Found May. 7, 2009
Phoebe Cates (there's a name from the past - what's she been up to recently?) starred in the original 1991 Drop Dead Fred, a comedy about a woman

Posted on May 7, 2009, 9:27 am

Drag Me To Hell And Other Horror Flicks You Can Share With Your ...

MTV - Found May. 27, 2009
Do so at your own risk, as stars Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates learn when their sleepy little town is infested by a horde of green...
Raimi returns to his horror roots - BBC
Raimi makes hilarious return to horror with `Hell' - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Review: Sam Raimi creates a 'Hell' of a horror flick - San Jose Mercury News
Raimi makes hilarious return to horror with `Hell' - Boston Globe
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Posted on May 27, 2009, 4:41 am

For Nets, Barriers to Brooklyn Fall Slowly

FOXSports.com - Found May. 30, 2009
... thread In each of the last arizona state retirement system two seasons, vw diesel tuning the Nets have phoebe cates won just jason bateman 34...

Posted on May 30, 2009, 7:18 am

Character actors of the 1980s

Examiner.com - Found May. 26, 2009
Phoebe Cates, Kerri Green, Joyce Hyser, Mia Sara The 1980s were filled with gorgeous actresses who became well-known for just one or two films...

Posted on May 26, 2009, 2:51 am

Motor City Comic Con 2009: photo recap (battery-died-early edition)

Examiner.com - Found May. 20, 2009
The big celebrity draw this year, the woman who played Phoebe Cates' best friend in Drop Dead Fred, made fan access decidedly exclusive with a...

Posted on May 20, 2009, 11:32 am

STEADY LEAK: YOUR QUESTIONS FOR NICK NUNZIATA #6

CHUD - Found May. 14, 2009
Virginia Madsen or Phoebe Cates? Nick Answers: Because it's a minor film. It's bad because it shows how dumb they are. Phoebe Cates every day of...

Posted on May 14, 2009, 8:04 am

What's in Jennifer Garner's Beauty Bag?

Marie Claire - Found May. 11, 2009
I can burn one all day—even around a baby—and not feel overpowered. And they remind me of their creator, actress Phoebe Cates, whom I adore.'

Posted on May 11, 2009, 12:41 pm

Phoebe Cates Biography

Phoebe Cates
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Cates and husband Kevin Kline at the Governor's Ball party after the 1989 Academy Awards, March 29, 1989
Born Phoebe Belle Katz
July 16, 1963 (1963-07-16) (age 45)
New York City, U.S.A.
Years active 1981-2001
Spouse(s) Kevin Kline (1989-present)

Phoebe Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.

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Biography

Cates was born Phoebe Belle Katz in New York City, New York, the daughter of Lily and director and producer Joseph Cates (originally "Joseph Katz").1 Her uncle is producer/director Gilbert Cates and her stepfather was Marshall Naify, a horse breeder.2 Cates' maternal grandfather was of Chinese Filipino descent, and her father as well as her maternal grandmother were of Russian Jewish origin. Cates attended the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School.3

Career

Cates achieved icon status in 1982 for her performance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, particularly the topless scene in which she sheds her bikini top in a slow-motion fantasy sequence. That year, in the romance film Paradise, and in contrast to the coyness of Brooke Shields in the similarly themed The Blue Lagoon, Cates appeared in several nude scenes. In a People magazine article, Cates said she had expressed reservations about this situation to her father, who advised her to play it in whatever way she felt was artistically and financially honest. She is quoted as saying "I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes in Paradise. They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified. But the topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High was funny, which made it easy."4

Her later film roles were more modest and largely oriented toward younger audiences, who remember her best as the female lead in the two Gremlins films, and the 1991 film Drop Dead Fred. Her face made the covers of teen magazines such as Seventeen, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and others. In 1985, Cates appeared Off-Broadway in Rich Relations written by David Henry Hwang at the Second Stage Theatre. In 1991, she was slated to be in Father of the Bride, but dropped out due to pregnancy. In 1994, she starred along with her husband Kevin Kline in Princess Caraboo. In 1996, she narrated the award-winning documentary short, The Flame, a film about the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.5

Personal life

Cates is estranged from her mother.2 In 1989, Cates married actor Kevin Kline, whom she had originally met while auditioning for the part that Meg Tilly ultimately won in The Big Chill. Kline and Cates make their home in New York City and have two children, Owen Joseph Kline, born in 1991 (who, in 2005, received rave reviews for his performance in The Squid and the Whale), and Greta Simone Kline, born in 1994. Owen and Greta appeared in Cates' most recent film, The Anniversary Party (2001). The film was an ensemble drama written and directed by Scottish actor Alan Cumming and Cates' real-life best friend of the past 25 years, Fast Times at Ridgemont High co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh. In the film, Cates played, fittingly enough, a Hollywood actress who has retired from acting to be a full-time mother.

In 2005, Cates opened her own boutique called Blue Tree on New York's Madison Avenue.6

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