Word: actorly
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Jessica K. Jackson '99 was selected to receive the Doris Cohen Levi Prize of $750; Lucia Brawley '99 is the recipient of the $250 Jonathan Levy Prize for the most promising actor at the University; Mai'a K. Davis '99 will be awarded the $ 1000 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts; and Colleen A. McGuinness '99 and D. Samuel C. Speedie '99 are recipients of the Louise Donovan Award...
...Federally protected acts," in this definition, means acts which inherently identify the actor as a member of a minority group, such as marches and protests...
...banned from working in China for one year," Chen says, "and told to pay a fine of 10% of the budget." The film cost $1 million, much of it out of Chen's pocket. And though it won seven Golden Horse awards (the Chinese-language Oscars), including best film, actor, actress, script and director, it will not be shown soon in China. Perhaps an apology from Chen would help. "I do recognize that I filmed illegally in China," she says, "and I formally promise, in TIME magazine, that I'll never do it again. That's my apology...
...delicate, harrowing epic in miniature; it has an artist's attention to the harsh allure of physical and psychological landscapes. Xiu Xiu would be memorable if only for its stars: Lu Lu, now 17, an elfin charmer whom Chen found studying English in San Francisco, and the Tibetan actor Lopsang as a herdsman who befriends Xiu Xiu. But the movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power but to choose her own grim fate, is a worthy cinematic sister to Mouchette, Robert...
DIED. DAVID STRICKLAND, 29, film and TV actor who played a music critic on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan and has a role in the current release Forces of Nature; of an apparent suicide; in Las Vegas. Strickland, who was due to appear in court last week as part of his probation for an October cocaine-possession arrest, was found hanged in a motel room...