Word: activists
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...Witherspoon, channeling Sally Field in her acceptance speech, was an anomaly. Otherwise, voters went for meaningfully angry over emotionally adorable-not just with Crash and supporting actress Weisz (as the martyred activist in The Constant Gardener) but in two of the short-film categories. The prize for Live Action Short went to the contentious Six Shooter, written by English playwright Martin McDonagh-a three-time Best Play nominee on Broadway who probably couldn?t have imagined he?d win an Oscar before he got a Tony. And in the Animated Short category, the award went not to the Pixar cartoon...
ELECTED. EFFA MANLEY, as the first woman member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The white co-owner of the Newark Eagles, one of baseball's Negro National League teams in the 1930s and '40s, was a civil rights activist; she died in 1981. After selling the club in 1948, Manley lobbied for the Hall of Fame to include Negro League stars; 16 will be inducted with her in July in Cooperstown...
...figure in all Suburbia, the thread that weaves between family and community?the keeper of the suburban dream?is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor...
...African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World War I, and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, a German film about the World War II activist tried and killed for protesting against Hitler. But the award often goes to the least-known film. That would be Don?t Tell, an Italian drama about a woman?s memory of child abuse...
Reeves is the first gay African-American mayor in the nation, but this cursory description doesn’t quite do this hard-working community activist justice...