Shelley Duvall was a film icon in the '70s and '80s, starring with Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with Robin Williams in Popeye and in a string of acclaimed movies by director Robert Altman, including 3 Women and Nashville. Then she disappeared from Hollywood. What happened to her? In an interview with PEOPLE's Elaine Aradillas, the long-retired actress shares how she's been hiding in plain sight and why she's willing to enter the spotlight again in a new horror movie, The Forest Hills.

In a small, one-stoplight town in the Texas Hill Country, a waitress is quickly jotting down a to-go order: blackened tilapia, crab cake with wedge fries, a side salad, hard-boiled eggs, a sweetened iced tea, and a Dr. Pepper with an extra cup of ice. The waitress looks up. "Is this for Shelley Duvall?"

For the past two decades, Duvall, 73, has been quietly living in the area, where she's a regular at most establishments. While many locals know her, some may be surprised to learn that the gray-haired woman who often breaks into song while speaking is an iconic actress from the '70s and '80s who showed off her impressive range and quirky style in classic films including Woody Allen's Annie Hall, Robert Altman's Popeye and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. After acting in more than 20 movies and producing several TV shows, Duvall decided to step away from Hollywood in 2002 and retire in Central Texas.

That is, until now. Duvall is returning to acting in an indie horror film, The Forest Hills, which will premiere on March 11 at Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. (a theater owned by filmmaker Kevin Smith). Director-writer-producer Scott Goldberg, who's seeking further distribution for the movie, says he called Duvall last year and asked her to play a supporting role: "Shelley's a Hollywood icon. I'm happy that she has the opportunity to show that she still has the talent." Says Duvall: "Acting again—it's so much fun. It enriches your life."

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Duvall's long disappearance from Hollywood sparked speculation about her mental health over the years. But in person she's sharp, earthy, a bit eccentric and sometimes emotional as she looks back on her unique career. (She asks to do the interview from her SUV, since an injured foot makes it difficult to walk.) Born in Fort Worth in 1949, Duvall grew up in Houston, where her father was a lawyer and her mother worked in real estate. Despite three younger brothers, she says, the house wasn't a boisterous one: "I liked to read and had a lot of homework."

But everything changed for her at age 18, when a group of men in suits attended her then--boyfriend's art opening. "Somebody said, 'Oh, it's the movie people,' " she recalls. They noticed Duvall and asked her to audition. What followed felt like a whirlwind. She soon found herself costarring in Altman's 1970 comedy Brewster McCloud. It took two more films before she decided to make acting her career. "After Thieves Like Us, Robert [Altman] looked at me and said, 'I knew you were good, but I didn't know you were great,' " she says with tears in her eyes. "It's the reason I stuck with it and became an actress."Duvall became Hollywood's unconventional It girl. Her lilting voice was as recognizable as her doe eyes and lithe frame. "I didn't feel beautiful," she says. "I had big eyes, big ears." She starred in seven Altman films, including 3 Women and Popeye, in which she played Olive Oyl opposite Robin Williams. "All it took was to put on the costume, and I knew exactly how to play Olive," she says.

Despite working with Hollywood giants, she didn't always find the acting life easy or profitable. "You didn't get paid much—just scale plus 10 percent," she says. "They thought women would just marry and the husband's going to support them. But that doesn't happen for everybody." Duvall has been in a decades-long relationship but declines to discuss her current or past loves, who have included Paul Simon and Ringo Starr. During the interview she is reminded of a song—-Supertramp's "Even in the Quietest Moments"—and asks to play it. As the music swells, tears stream down her face. She wipes them away and smiles. "It's the first time I've heard the song since a certain boyfriend," she explains.

For the most part Duvall is happy to walk down memory lane. And whenever she stumbles across her films on TV, she'll stop and watch. "On one channel there is Popeye and another one The Shining. Boy, those are two different films," she says. "But in a way it's like, 'Gosh, I was great.' "

In the '90s her movie offers began to dwindle. When her brother was diagnosed with spinal cancer, she packed up and moved back to Texas. "It's the longest sabbatical I ever took," she says, "but it was for really important reasons—to get in touch with my family again."

Duvall says she enjoyed getting back in front of the camera and hopes to continue acting. "[Jessica Tandy] won an Oscar when she was 80. I can still win," she says with a wink and a laugh. But first she's off to place another order. "Let's go to Dairy Queen and get ourselves some decadent desserts." *

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AUSTIN — All day and all night after the ice storm struck, Austin residents listened for the cracks, splinters and crashes. Each crack of a falling limb could shut the power off — if their home hadn’t gone dark already.

“It’s a really, really thick layer of ice,” said Jonathan Motsinger, the Central Texas operations department head for Texas A&M Forest Service. “Trees can only support weight to a certain extent, and then they fail.”

Across the Texas Hill Country this week, trees snapped under the weight of ice that accumulated during multiple days of freezing rain. Some of the most iconic trees were among the most severely damaged: live oaks (some of them hundreds of years old), ashe junipers (the scourge of allergy sufferers during “cedar fever” season), cedar elms. As their branches gave way, they took neighboring power lines with them.

“The amount of weight that has accumulated on the vegetation is probably historic, extreme,” Austin Energy general manager Jackie Sargent said during a Thursday press conference.

Ice can increase the weight of tree branches up to 30 times, said Kerri Dunn, a communications manager for Oncor. The utility reported that almost 143,000 of its customers in North, Central and West Texas were without power Thursday afternoon.

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“Trees are the No. 1 cause of outages when you have ice storms,” Dunn said. “We can’t always prevent [trees] from falling in the wrong direction and hitting our equipment.”

Nearly 153,000 Austin Energy customers were without power Thursday afternoon, and the utility said it is unable to provide an estimate for how long it will take to fix all of the broken lines.

Proper pruning and maintenance of trees in the paths of power lines are the responsibility of Austin Energy, the city’s electric utility that is overseen by the Austin City Council. But city officials said residents are responsible for trimming trees that are not in utility easements but are close enough to power lines to fall on them during storms. Tree pruning can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Certain trees are more likely to suffer broken limbs and split trunks during ice storms, Motsinger said. Live oaks, one of the most common trees in Central Texas, tend to keep leaves throughout the winter — which means they collect more ice than trees that drop their leaves in the fall. As evergreens, ashe junipers have the same problem in ice storms.

Motsinger said the historic drought last summer may have caused trees to have more dead limbs than usual, which are more likely to break when caked with ice. But in general, Motsinger said, the drought probably had less of an impact than the sheer amount of ice.

Proper tree maintenance could have prevented some of the destruction, he said.

Utilities have plans for managing trees and other vegetation around power lines, said Ben Gaffaney, spokesperson for the Association of Electric Companies of Texas. He said he heard tree limbs falling around his home Wednesday.

But those plans are sometimes hampered by local policies, said Sargent, the Austin Energy general manager. Efforts to avoid disturbing bird habitats and to avoid spreading the fungal disease oak wilt during certain times of the year can slow pruning efforts and are among the “biggest barriers” to trimming, an Austin Energy spokesperson told The Texas Tribune.

Sargent said during a press conference that the utility would discuss city regulations that prevent better pruning with local leaders.

In some cases, the utility also has to fight public pushback when it prunes trees around power lines — residents sometimes complain about the utility lopping off large limbs. The Austin Energy spokesperson said that between 40% and 50% of Austin homeowners delay the utility’s trimming work with questions or disputes about trimming plans.

Michael Webber recalled how residents resisted tree-trimming efforts when he served from 2008-13 on the electric utility commission that oversaw Austin Energy. It left the utility in a tough spot: No one liked tree trimming, but no one wanted to lose power during a storm either, he said.

Webber, now an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said his own street west of Austin was impassable Thursday because of downed branches, and a colleague is mourning her broken 150-year-old live oak.

Austin Energy is one of the few utilities in the nation that attempts to meet with property owners in advance of tree trimming, according to the city of Austin. The utility notifies neighborhood associations and leaves work plans at people’s doors. When property owners don’t respond, the utility sends letters to notify homeowners and proceeds with its trimming plan.

“We could really use help in that area with getting our residents to understand the importance of vegetation management to allow our crews in,” Sargent said. The utility’s general manager added that Austin Energy has increased its tree-trimming budget in recent years. Austin City Council in 2021 doubled the utility’s budget for vegetation clearing, according to the utility’s website, but there is a backlog of trimming work to be done.

Austin has almost 34 million trees in the city, according to an online tree census maintained by Texas A&M Forest Service and the U.S. Forest Service.

“It’s a big point of pride,” said Keith Mars, who oversees the city of Austin’s Community Tree Preservation Division.

Mars said that shade from the trees saves Austin residents millions of dollars a year in energy costs by cooling homes during hot summer days.

“Trees are infrastructure,” Mars said. “How much maintenance and how much care we provide, so that [the trees] can continue providing those other benefits, is the kind of tradeoff that we all have.”

Sneha Dey contributed to this story.

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TAMPA, Feb. 22, 2023 – The University of South Florida softball team snapped a five-game losing streak by sweeping the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles, 3-0 and 3-1, during their midweek double header on Wednesday night.

GAME 1 -FGCU 0, USF 3

(Dunkirk, N.Y) started the game with a leadoff double to left field. A sacrifice fly from (Forest Hills, Md) gave the Bulls the early lead.

South Florida wouldn't take long to add to their lead. (Orange, Texas) walked in the bottom of the second and scored on (Lutz) second triple of the season. A single from (Tampa) brought Pierro home for the Green and Gold's third and last run of the game.

Left-hander pitched her 30 complete game of her career and her first as a Bull. She held the Eagles to two hits and struck out 10. Her success earned her the transfer's first win of the season.

GAME 2- FGCU 1, USF 3

USF tied the game in the bottom of the sixth inning after loading the bases. Hanlon showed her intelligence at the plate and earned a walk to bring the typing run in. The Bulls capitalized on the momentum, adding two more runs on a sacrifice fly from (Trenton) and a single from (White Plains, N.Y.).

FGCU scored their first and only run of the day in the top of the third inning on a fielder's choice.

South Florida was held hitless until the bottom of the fifth inning when (Fort Myers) broke it up with a single to the pitcher. Bryant reached on a fielder's choice and stole second for the second time in the game. She advanced to third on a single from Galligani.

Freshman (Tallahassee) started in the circle in the second game of the double header. She pitched 2.1 innings, allowed two hits, and one run. (Braidwood, Ill.) relieved the freshman and pitched 4.2 innings. She retired seven batters and earned her second win this season.

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Up Next The Bulls will host the USF Invitational and welcome #5/5 Clemson, #9/12 Tennessee, Michigan State, and Illinois-Chicago. They open the tournament tomorrow night against Clemson at 6 p.m.

About USF Softball Be sure to follow USF softball on social media (Twitter / Facebook / Instagram) and visit GoUSFBulls.com for the most up-to-date information. The USF softball program has been one of the most successful on campus, making 16 NCAA tournament appearances, including a trip to the Women's College World Series in 2012.

– #GoBulls –

Fall Out Boy are GRAMMY award-nominated multi-platinum selling rockers. They have announced a 2023 headlining tour, coming to Forest Hills and Darien Center.

Fall Out Boy is one of the biggest-selling rock bands. The group is comprised of vocalist Patrick Stump, bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, and drummer Andy Hurley. Joe Trohman, the group’s guitarist, announced he would be stepping away from the group due to mental health reasons, and won’t be involved in this headline tour.

Their seventh studio album MANIA debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in January 2018 and garnered a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album. Other records that have done well on Billboard charts include 2015’s AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO and 2013’s Save Rock and Roll, whose song “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)” went multi-platinum.

Formed in Chicago in 2001, the band ties the city into everything they do. Last week they performed a surprise show at the 1,000-capacity venue Metro, with an immediate sell-out. It is down the street from Wrigley Field, which will be the venue for the opening date of the tour, and was last performed in 2002 by the group. Stump joked with the crowd saying “Twenty years ago, I told my mom I was going to take a semester off [college] because we were headlining Metro and I wanted to see how that would work out.” The night was hailed by Variety as a “triumphant hometown show,” noting that “there are concerts, and there are events, and a hometown show in Chicago from [Fall Out Boy] is definitely in the latter category.”

The band will be releasing a new record So Much (For) Stardust on March 24. Two singles have been released thus far, “Love From The Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good,” and bring the band back to their rock roots, and is described by the Chicago Sun-Times as “tak[ing] all they’ve learned and accomplished the past 20 years and combine it with their unflinching roots for an ultimate glow-up.”

The So Much For (Tour) Dust headline will feature Bring Me The Horizon on most dates, as well as Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Four Years Strong, The Academy Is…, Royal & The Serpent, Games We Play, Daisy Grenade and Carr on select shows throughout the tour’s run. They will be hitting Forest Hills Stadium on Aug. 1 and Darien Lake Amphitheater on Aug. 4. Fall Out Boy’s mailing list pre-sale will begin Thursday, Feb. 2 at 10 a.m. local. The general on sale will be Friday, Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. local, and can be purchased here.

Fall Out Boy – So Much For (Tour) Dust | 2023 North American Dates

^≠ Non-Live Nation date

*Alkaline Trio as direct

support; all other dates feature Bring Me The Horizon as direct support

Date City Venue

Wednesday, June 21* Chicago, IL Wrigley Field

Friday, June 23* Maryland Heights, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

Saturday, June 24^≠* Bonner Springs, KS Azura Amphitheater

Tuesday, June 27 The Woodlands, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Wednesday, June 28 Dallas, TX Dos Equis Pavilion

Friday, June 30 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Saturday, July 1 Chula Vista, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sunday, July 2 Los Angeles, CA BMO Stadium

Wednesday, July 5 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre

Friday, July 7 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre

Sunday, July 9^≠ Englewood, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre

Tuesday, July 11 Rogers, AR Walmart AMP

Thursday, July 13 Somerset, WI Somerset Amphitheater

Saturday, July 15 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center

Sunday, July 16 Noblesville, IN Ruoff Music Center

Tuesday, July 18 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center

Wednesday, July 19 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live

Friday, July 21 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion

Saturday, July 22 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater

Monday, July 24 West Palm Beach, FL iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

Tuesday, July 25 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

Wednesday, July 26 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater

Saturday, July 29 Clarkston, MI Pine Knob Music Theatre

Sunday, July 30 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage

Tuesday, August 1 Forest Hills, NY Forest Hills Stadium

Wednesday, August 2 Boston, MA Fenway Park

Friday, August 4 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheater

Saturday, August 5 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center

Sunday, August 6 Camden, NJ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion

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Texas football will soon make its return to the field when the Longhorns begin spring practice on March 6. The Longhorns have welcomed in 17 new faces to campus as mid-year enrollees who will make their debut in their Texas uniform in spring football.

Among the group of mid-year enrollees include some of the highest-rated prospects to sign with Texas during the early signing period, with all four five-star recruits — QB Arch Manning, LB Anthony Hill, RB Cedric Baxter Jr. and WR Johntay Cook — and several other Top247 prospects from the nation’s No. 3 ranked signing class in the 2023 recruiting cycle already on campus. In addition to the early enrollees out of high school, Texas has also added some new faces from the transfer portal, including former Georgia wide receiver Adonai Mitchell, Arkansas safety Jalen Catalon and Wake Forest cornerback Gavin Holmes.

"We feel really good about the class we signed," Steve Sarkisian said of the 2023 class during the early signing period in December. "I thought we addressed a lot of the needs that we felt like we had, but also we kind of addressed the progress of our program and where we wanted to head.

"We felt like we needed to really solidify the linebacker position, and I thought we did that really well in this class. I thought we recruited two really good runners, we got a quarterback, got two good receivers, got three really good DBs, got big up front on the O- and D-line again, got two good tight ends — and so from a balance standpoint, I thought the class definitely did that. I'm proud of the work everybody did — our coaches, our staff did to make this thing come to life."

As the Longhorns prepare for the March 6 start of spring practice, Horns247 takes a look at the eight players on defense who will officially suit up for the first time in their Texas jerseys when the Longhorns kickoff spring football.