Lorie passionately
expressed simultaneous joy and sorrow adding that she was emotionally torn between sadness and
elation because her late husband and farm namesake, Rusty could not share the award while
expressing joy over realizing his dream.
She talked about sitting on a linoleum floor in Milwaukee in 1964, watching Sidney Poitier become the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor, and though she was
expressing gratitude for his work and appreciation for that moment of
elation, she was also talking about anger: «I have tried many, many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door, bone - tired from cleaning other people's houses.»