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As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger reveals new facets of her gifts — and herself

Renee Zellweger is making her way through a bowl of potato chips in the lobby of Casa del Mar, the beachfront Santa Monica hotel she used as an office for a couple of years while she was developing a television series, "Cinnamon Girl," about four young women coming of age in Los Angeles in the late '60s. The show, which didn't get picked up, was loosely based on Zellweger's own move to L.A. from Austin in 1993.

"I left on Dec. 4, 1993 and got here on the 6th," Zellweger says. "I took my boombox and my dog and drove my red Honda CRX. I guess I didn't own that much because everything I did own was in the back of my

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