When I think of Mary Steenburgen, I think of Time After Time
(1979), One Magic Christmas (1985), Back to the Future III (1990), and Elf (2003).
I’d seen some of her work since then, but none of it left as big an impression
as those four movies. Last week I learned at age 54 the Oscar-winning actress had
undergone what should have been an unremarkable surgery on her arm. When the
general anesthesia wore off, she heard music in her head. They were tunes she’d
never heard before, and they never stopped. At first, it was debilitating. She
couldn’t focus. Acting was next to impossible. Mary called a musician friend
and asked for help transcribing the music she was hearing. That summer she
wrote hundreds of songs. In 2019, She won best original song for "Glasgow
(No Place Like Home)" in the movie Wild Rose. Mary Steenburgen is living
proof we’re never finished becoming who we are.
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