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Jane Pratt

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Jane Pratt was born on November 11, 1962 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Kingpin (1996), Vanilla Sky (2001) and The Boogey Man (1980). She has been married to Andrew Shaifer since February 2002. They have one child.

Jane was the founding editor-in-chief of an alternative teen magazine in the 80s and 90s called "Sassy". It was based on the Australian magazine "Dolly". Under her guidance, the magazine published controversial articles that existing mainstream magazines marketed to teenage girls would not touch. During and after Sassy, she attempted to host a couple of talk shows, but both failed to garner ratings. She is presently editor-in-chief of Jane magazine, for which she hired (and fired) several ex-Sassy staffers.
Has one daughter, named Charlotte Jane (born December 2002). She initially announced that she was going to be naming her daughter Isabel. She changed her mind at the last minute, choosing instead to name the child after her North Carolina hometown and herself.
Played electric violin in the Sassy Magazine house-band "Chia Pet"
Attended North Carolina School of the Arts and Philips Academy Andover (Massachussetts) on scholarships and financial aid while her family was on welfare. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1984 with a double major in Dance and Communications.
Discovered Spike Jonze who she hired to be an editor of Dirt Magazine, and Chloë Sevigny who did a summer internship at Sassy Magazine.

I feel responsible to give them the best advice I can. If they ask me about relationships, I always tell them the same thing: 'Don't get married.'
Well, first of all, I'll start by saying I don't cook. Probably the last thing I cooked was maybe ten years ago, or maybe 20, but it tasted good. I can always make things taste good; I just don't like to do it. And I don't do it, so I know a lot about delivery.
One of the best nonfiction books I've found within the last couple years is called The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan. It's that whole era at Stanford where they were doing the Stanford prison experiment and all that crazy sociological stuff. This is about a guy from that era who - it's just the most crazy thing - sent people who were not mentally ill to mental institutions. He got them to be accepted, then had them try to prove their sanity to get out, and they couldn't.

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