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Jennifer Garner on How Her Mother Grew Up in Poverty, Fame and Being Married in Hollywood Jennifer Garner  is opening up like never before. The actress sat down for an intimate sit down on the  Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan  show, where she talked about paparazzi, being a single mom and how her mother grew up in poverty. "My mom grew up really poor in Locust Grover, Oklahoma, on a farm. I think my mom was so poor, it's just unbelievable that she managed to leave," Garner told Kelly Corrigan. "As a matter of fact, when I moved to New York after college, my mom said, 'Jennifer, no matter what you do, it will never be as big of a deal as it was for me to leave that farm.'" Garner, who grew up in West Virginia, shared that she asked her mother if it bothered her to have her daughter talk about growing up poor. "She said, 'I'm never ashamed of growing up poor. Rather, I am amazed by the grace and dignity that my parents had throughout my child...

Theodore Decker: Conchata Ferrell went to Hollywood decades ago but never forgot Circleville Most likely you knew her as Berta, the gruff housekeeper who relentlessly skewered the pair of brothers employing her on television's "Two and a Half Men." Maybe you remember her as the owner of "Mystic Pizza," or as the churlish law firm secretary who did not mask her disdain of Julia Roberts' title character in "Erin Brockovich." But if you lived in Circleville not too long ago, you might have recognized Conchata Ferrell not from the big or small screen but from Main Street, as a fellow customer at Lindsey's Bakery or Wittich's Candy Shop. Ferrell died last week in Los Angeles at the age of 77 , after a career in films and television that spanned 50 years. In a business that can be notoriously fickle, she found steady work as a character actress. Along the way she earned three Emmy nominations, one in 1992 for her work on "L.A. Law" and ...