The materials that the Earth's crust is made of are called rocks, and all rocks are made of minerals. 1  Minerals are to rocks what vegetables are to a salad. If you know what vegetables are in your salad, you can tell what kind of salad you have. Likewise, if you can identify the minerals in your rock, you can name it. Minerals are the fundamental unit for understanding rocks.
Portrayal of Meg Giry in The Phantom of the Opera. In the musical, Meg's mother, Madame Giry, is the one who suggests to the theatre managers to put Christine in the leading role of the opera Hannibal once leading lady Carlotta Giudicelli is spooked by the Phantom's threats. Normally she and Christine would be part of the ballet ensemble led by Madame Giry.
Now, three and a half years after the groupâs epic Last Waltz farewell, Helm has won a whole new following playing the father of country queen Loretta Lynn in her movie bio, Coal Minerâs Daughter. Sissy Spacek, the brilliant actress in the title role, flatteringly found Levon âstrong enough to be sensitive.â Loretta herself decided he didnât need coaching, because âhe looked so much like Daddy, I figured he just knew.â But donât expect Helm, 39, to don a pair of Foster Grants, leave his modest home in Springdale, Ark. and head for Hollywood.