Q: What happened to Debra Winger, who Bette Davis once said could become a star if she wanted it enough?
—Jean Higgins, Atlanta
A: Winger, a three-time Academy Award nominee for best actress, took a step back from acting and has rarely acted since 1995.
She gave birth to her second son in 1997.
“I wanted out for years. I got sick of hearing myself say I wanted to quit,” Winger told New York Magazine in 2002. “It’s like opening an interview with ‘I hate interviews!’ Well, get out! I stopped reading scripts and stopped caring.”
She has since taught at Harvard, wrote a book called “Undiscovered” and has been the executive producer of documentaries.
Winger, who is 60, has resumed her career with smaller roles.
She appeared in an HBO series called “In Treatment” in 2010, a 2014 Lifetime mini-series called “The Red Tent” and will star in an upcoming Netflix series called “The Ranch.”
Winger was nominated as best actress for her roles in “An Officer and a Gentlemen,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Shadowlands.”
Q: Why have we started seeing the flag emblem sewn onto uniforms in a backward direction? Suddenly the stars are on the right side of the flag instead of the left. What is the reason for this?
—Alex Null, Cumming
A: Flags sewn onto the right sleeves of uniforms are known as reverse side flags, according to U.S. Army Regulation 670-1.
They are made so that the “star field faces forward” and gives the effect that the flag is “flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward,” the regulation states.
Andy Johnston with Fast Copy News Service wrote this column. Do you have a question about the news? We’ll try to get the answer. Call 404-222-2002 or email q&a@ajc.com (include name, phone and city).
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