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"   The poster for Brooke Shields&amp;#039; new movie.  Brooke Shields&amp;#039; life can be chronicled by one public scandal after another: those Calvin Klein ads, her scandalous role in Pretty Baby, the virginity declaration, her battle versus Tom Cruise and the very public eulogy of her life-long friend, Michael Jackson. &amp;quot;I feel like I have been humbled from the early, early days of my life. At every stage, there is something humbling. I grew up in an alcoholic household. And I was the new kid in the school and the famous one. Whatever it is. I&amp;#039;ve been humbled so many times over the years,&amp;quot; says Shields. In her new film, The Greening of Whitney Brown, Shields&amp;#039; character faces financial hardship that forces the Brown family out of Manhattan and into a life without material riches\u2014like the inverse of Beverly Hills&amp;#039; Clampetts or a more emotional take on The Simple Life. When we meet Shields, she&amp;#039;s ridiculously calm, a trait that carries over into her onscreen role. &amp;quot;Your character&amp;#039;s revealed in those moments of adversity,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;How you choose to move forward from that. Do you choose to be the victim\u2014poor me, why me? What do you do with it? What&amp;#039;s interesting about this theme in this film is that the initial standpoint is dread, fear and being ostracized and then coming out of it and becoming more enriched and more who you are at the end of it.&amp;quot;      So, would Shields, a born and raised Manhattanite, ever move her kids to the burbs? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not squeamish about the country. I love it. I had horses for a long time and love being outdoors and love camping, but I&amp;#039;m a concrete girl.&amp;quot; And for a celebrity who doesn&amp;#039;t seek the limelight as much as it does her, the real struggle lies in giving up work to keep her family in New York, &amp;quot;I would not leave this city. I&amp;#039;ve made a very conscious move to stay here and raise our kids here. So, that has a tendency to limit jobs, because they would have to be shot here.&amp;quot; The Greening of Whitney Brown is out now.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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